Celebration (Kool & the Gang song)
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Side-A label of 1980 US single | ||||
| Single by Kool & the Gang | ||||
| from the album Celebrate! | ||||
| B-side | "Morning Star" | |||
| Released | October 1980 | |||
| Recorded | January–March 1980 | |||
| Studio | House of Music, West Orange, New Jersey | |||
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| Length | 3:42 (7-inch version) 4:17 (video version) 5:00 (12-inch / album version) | |||
| Label | De-Lite | |||
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"Celebration" is a song by American band Kool & the Gang. Released in October 1980 by De-Lite Records as the first single from their twelfth album, Celebrate! (1980), it was the band's first and only single to reach No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100. In 2016, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
In 2021, the Library of Congress selected "Celebration" for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".