I CAN'T STOP DANCING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Blind reaction to Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music
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In 1976 I was 19 years and you are right the 70's and 80's was a crazy time! It's hard to explain it to the younger generations just how free we all were back then as they say "you had to be there".
The baby boomers coming of age between The Pill and AIDS. It WAS crazy. 😁
In 1976 I was 17 & I agree completely!!!
70s Hip huggers, bell bottoms or elephant bells, platform shoes, it was a time.
As a person who grew up in the 1970s, society was more permissive and less offended. You did what made you feel like, as you don’t harsh someone else’s mellow. Long hair. Tight pants. Rock and freaking Roll ruled. The Stones were rolling. The Beatles were post Sgt Pepper.
This show was a music showcase on Saturday nights.
Absolutely!!!❤
Even if you didn't think you could dance.....you HAD to dance to this song! I'm sorry, young man, the 60s/70s music has always been the BEST! I had to click on this reaction right away...dancing at my desk right now!!
Midnight Special was All Music every Friday night. This was before there were many music videos, and before MTV and VH1. There were other variety shows, but this one was all music of the day. They featured what was hot and/or up and coming. Maybe you could feature a song from the Midnight Special once a week? I have to say, it does my heart good to see young folks enjoying this music and the program that showed them.
Me too! I almost feel sorry for younger people who didn't get to experience what we did.
Yep, he's twirling a trumpet! Dang!
Trumpets are built with a ring to put your finger through to hold it when you are not playing. It is close to the center of mass, so it makes trumpet flashes like that easy.
@@thomasmacdiarmid8251 I'd forgotten about that ring! I'd still drop it if I tried spinning a trumpet.
Ah. A song that takes one back to the days of polyester double knit flares over platform shoes with an Afro pick in your pocket and a tucked-in button front shirt with long sleeves and a long collar.
It wasn’t so bad with a lot of pot and a lot of seggs.
And the folk that danced to this in the 70’s, are all grandparents now. Oh they’ve got stories to tell. 😅😅😅
Absofreakin'lutely I have stories to tell!!! I was a jr in high school when this aired... My bff & I choreographed a dance to this (The Bump - Google it if you don't know what it is) and at the prom, when the live band did this song we ditched our dates & did our thing & the dance floor cleared as the others stood in a circle & enjoyed the hilarity!! I'm so freakin grateful that I lived my best years in the 70's & 80's!! When I die I hope I get to go back & live it all over again!!! 💜
I was a senior in highschool when this was hot!! OMG, I wish I had a $ for every time I "boogied" to this iconic song!! I'm 65 and I can still boogie!!! ❤❤
Me also...we old....😮😂
I'm '64 & right there with ya on the boogying!!! I still feel like a teenager & pretty much act like one too! Lol! My 29 y/o daughter & I hang out together constantly & ppl think I'm her older sister! Lol! I LOVE THAT!!! Stay young! ✌️
This is such a classic song! I love how so many songs from the 70s and 80s (and before) are the same whether Live or Recorded (or at least, very close)...
Thank you Bumblebee Whisperer for another classic song choice!
Thank you for the reaction DJ, good to see you grooving along...LOL #HerdLove
I haven't seen Helen Reddy in years. Not since I looked up songs from Disney's Pete's Dragon.
Us that were young adults in the 70's actually thought we'd solved the race issue. And the music world was a great example of that for us. It simply didn't matter what color or country you came from. Everyone ribbed and teased each other across all diversities. No one got offended because it was done jokingly. If I got called a honkey or a cracker chick, or white bread, I laughed. We celebrated our differences by joking about them, not ignoring them. Then somebody got offended. And, yes, it could go too far. I grew up in a very tiny, very white town. I later learned there was the KKK in town, uh, what? I never knew that growing up, so it was there, I just didn't see it. Our souls have no color or gender, or ethnicity. We just need to listen to our souls more. Peace out. ✌️
Amen! Same here! I was sheltered & I loved everybody. Our high school was unique in that we had 2 co- principals: 1 black/ 1 white. They called themselves salt & pepper & were both loved by all the students. There was literally no racial tension in our school. I was naive enough to think that was how it was everywhere. I'm so lucky to have lived my young adult life in the late 70's & all the 80's. Life was just so much better then!!!
I do agree there were lots of mixed race music scenes where it rly did not matter but i do wonder if your whiteness might have shielded you from seeing some of the worst of it? Bc as you said the KKK and skinhead Nazis were very much still a thing in the 70s and if you're American racial integration literally only happened 10yrs earlier.
RIGHT? I honestly thought we had it all figured out and racism was DEAD. I really thought we had it...5th Dimension; Age of Acquarius. Right along with a lot of you other people on Social Security...What Happened????????
@@felixhenson9926 I honestly don't think I was aware of it. I am a fairly intelligent and observant person, and I would have been aware of it if I had had witnessed any arguments or altercations. I don't think my whiteness was a factor, but being a very sheltered kid, even into my 20's was. My parents controlled what I watched on tv, and even music on the radio. I didn't watch the news either. Yep - sheltered! (But I was a really happy child - loved and treated well - so don't feel sorry for me! Lol!)
Sounds of the 70's! Brilliant! Thanks DJ ❤
DJ... I am SO tickled to watch you discover this!!! I was 17 then - jr year of HS... Every Fri nite my bff & I spent the night at her house & watched this (our fav show next to Sat Night Live ORIGINAL CAST - BIll Murray, Dan Ackroyd, Garrett Morris, Gilda Radner, Larraine Newman, Eddie Murphy, Chevy Chase - (we spent Sat Nite together as well) & we watched Midnight Special & ate pizza & drank cheap convenience store wine (Boonesfarm strawberry) & jammed out coz she lived w/her granny who was deaf! Oh Lordy DJ, I could tell you so many stories! I think I'll write a book!!! If I do, I'll autograph one & send it to you! Lol! Love ya!!! Bev. 💜
"Bob Ross's cousin?!" Yeah, you may have hit that one right on the head! LOL It was definitely a different time for everything. Says the woman who went through high school from 1969-'73 in bell bottoms and micro-mini dresses with hair down to the back of her knees. HAHAHA I almost miss those days sometimes. The music during this period was some of the best! Thank you for the memories!
My hair was down to my knees as well!!! Levi bell-bottom jeans & t-shirts advertising my fav rock groups... I def would hop the Tardis & go back to relive it all!!
@@beverlykrebs4372 My favorite bell bottoms were red plaid and hip-huggers to boot! I had to laugh when I saw both styles coming back around within the past 10 years. So comfortable!
Graduated high school in 1977. Midnight special! Oh, yes, so glad for the nights we were allowed to stay up and watch it as a kid. 100%; we heard music on the RADIO, not the television. LOTS of us thought Wild Cherry and the Bee Gees were black back then. I'm 65 and due to young people watching old live videos, I FINALLY get to see them performed live. THANK YOU! And I agree; we need something LIKE this. We though MTV was going to do it....until it turned into reality show hell.
Who's going to request a DJ reaction to Ram Jam's 'Black Betty' ?????????? 😁
Whoa !
I'm not sure he could handle it! Lol!
Gotta love the 70’s!! Had you grooving in ur chair!! ❤
Wild Cherry was formed in 1970. They have a very funky sound. Most people are shocked to see that this is a white band. The band's name "Wild Cherry" was taken from a box of cough drops.
Did not know that!! Lol!!
Play That Funky Music was everywhere back in the day! I actually attended a taping of the Midnight Special once in 75 or 76! Billy Joel was the artist, and it was at the time Piano Man had been released (he didn't play it because he didn't have the all the necessary instruments there). The audience had to stand the whole time and it was pretty packed. I had forgotten about doing this until I saw that logo come up on your video!
I am so jealous!!!
The music and lyrics are by a different band: KC and the Sunshine Band. I think that until this period in our history there was a stereotype that only black musicians could/should play funk. This song is a send up of that stereotype. Still remember dancing to it at high school dances. Also, the woman who introduced the band, Helen Reddy, was also a fabulous singer. Check her out!
Considering Helen Reddy is from Australia I have an idea he may know of her. Lol
Rob Parissi the lead singer wrote this song. Not KC of KC And the sunshine Band
@@marylee7467 And it was actually roughly autobiographical - they were playing a black club and doing traditional rock cover songs, and he was asked to play some funk band covers. There are interviews with better explanation.
@thomasmacdiarmid8251 yep I heard that interview. It was a great story. I love watching people realize they are not black. Which shows the true fact music has no color.
Hi DJ - I graduated HS in 1976. This song was part of my life back then. Loved it then, love it still!! Thanks for doing this one 😊
Thanks DJ 😊
The lead singer has so much hair it moves with him
IMO, the 70s had the worst fashion, but absolutely the BEST music!!!
Interesting back then,your comment about the 2 guys pointing and singing, nothing crossed anyone's mind that it wasn't anything but fun. Loved your reaction!
'I don't know what nationality i thought he would look like' the chorus is LITERALLY play that funky music white boy haha!
If you search "1970's polyester clothing," you'll see where their look came from. I was 22 years old when this song came out, and I admit to wearing polyester. Lol ! It was an awesome era of music.
As a teen, Friday night was "Midnight Special" night. "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert" was another cool show.
This song tells a true story (so to speak) of the musician playing Rock & Roll music and deciding to go to a popular club to see what all the fuss was about. While there he is infected with "the funk".
I remember hearing singer Rob Parissi in several interviews. He said something along the lines that he based the song on a guy yelling something similar to him during a show. The basic riff was born from that and the rest is Rock & Roll legend.
I may have some of the specifics off a little due to the many years since I saw him speak about it, but I'm sure the trolls will let me know 🤣.
The Grammys do live music every year.
IF you are interested - VoicePlay did this on during the Sing Off competition with Honey LaRochelle.
While you're funking out, check out Uptown Funk.
While playing at the 2001 Club on the North Side of Pittsburgh to a predominantly black audience, a patron said to band member Beitle during a break, "Are you going to play some funky music, white boys?" Parissi grabbed a pen and order pad and wrote the song in about five minutes.
Rob Parissi was very talented and the back story to his writing this song is interesting. They were One-Hit-Wonders, sadly.
Fashion- satin jackets, chunky platform shoes, jumpsuits, Nikes, wide leg pants, or if you were california based straight leg jeans. Entertainers in flashy satin, shiny body suits.
Guys in silk shirts button open with chests showing. Jewelry pucca shells, gold chains.
Guys and girls long hair with feathered hair like Farrah Fawcett.
And rollerskating, dancing disco was the weekend activity for most.
And/ or Rock music concerts and Rocker long hair.
If you LIKE this, check out Focus "Hocus Pocus"
on the Midnight Special show. The ONLY full
audience ovation in the history of the show!!
I also miss shows like Top of the Pops and other such live music cabaret type shows. Agreed, bring em back! Also do not get why you feel like it might be offensive to have panned to the black guys singing play that funky music white boy. I cannot think of an angle where it could be derogatory.
the two guys on horns were from the show, not the band.
Back in the days when you actually had to be able to sing
DJ, you need to do your hair in the style.
Just curious - are you going to do VoicePlay’s cover of this now?
Also, since you asked, Midnight Special was entirely music oriented. Usually about 3 - 4 bands doing a song each. I used to sit with my cassette recorder aimed at my tv so I could catch every bit. And it introduced me to a whole lot of acts I probably would have never heard otherwise.
I totally forgot they did that. 😮
Not one of their best performances, imho, but it does have some funky moments.
ABBA, Journey, Elvis, BeeGees,,Queen..more views
70’s fashion, in the disco era, was all about heaving breasts and hairy chests.
Masculinity was showing off your chest and the more hair, the better. I miss those days when you didn’t shave your whole body!