It’s one of a handful of intro guitar riffs that makes people hoot and holler and shake it on down to the dance floor. Wild Cherry’s “Play That Funky Music” has all the essential musical ingredients ...
MetalSucks: Best Mash-Up Ever of the Weekend: “Play That Funky Music, Rammstein”
For years, I heard "Play That Funky Music" as some kind of statement of racial solidarity. The white boy singing the song, Wild Cherry frontman Rob Parissi, knew that nobody would expect a white boy ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1976, the band Wild Cherry scored their first and only No. 1 hit with the song “Play That Funky Music.” The song, which ...
techtimes: Apple Music New Feature: Artists Can Personalize Profile Pages and Add Lyrics for Their Songs
Apple Music New Feature: Artists Can Personalize Profile Pages and Add Lyrics for Their Songs
Songs pinned to your Facebook profile are public, even if your posts are restricted to be seen by only friends. Songs marked with an "E" symbol have explicit lyrics. Adding music and songs to your ...
Viewing the profiles/channels of non-artist users in YouTube Music today shows playlists that are set to public. In what could be a bid to make YouTube Music more social, you’re getting the option to ...
As the Wikipedia entry on Funk indicates, Yale art historian Robert Farris Thompson has posited an African origin to the musical use of funky. Here is an expanded quote from his 1984 work, Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy: The slang term 'funky' in black communities originally referred to strong body odor, and not to 'funk,' meaning fear or panic. The black ...