Summer Madness (instrumental)
| "Summer Madness" | ||||
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Side two of US single "Spirit of the Boogie" | ||||
| Single by Kool & The Gang | ||||
| from the album Light of Worlds | ||||
| A-side | "Spirit of the Boogie" (Nor. Am.) | |||
| Released | September 1974 | |||
| Recorded | 1974 | |||
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| Length | 4:16 | |||
| Label | De-Lite | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Robert "Spike" Mickens, Alton Taylor, Kool & the Gang | |||
| Kool & The Gang singles chronology | ||||
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"Summer Madness" is an instrumental song by American R&B band Kool & the Gang, released on their 1974 album Light of Worlds. It reached number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 36 on the Hot Soul Singles charts. It has subsequently become one of the most sampled R&B compositions of all time, and was re-released and reissued as a CD and cassette single by Epic Records in 1996. As of 2018, over 145 recordings had sampled it.