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@Half and Jai. If y’all like reacting to country music Listen to “Feathered Indians - by Tyler Childers”. Worth a listen it’s pretty good or if you want a good laugh listen to “Barrel racer land-
You're somewhat idealizing the past. The reality was pop musicians were considered as marginals at the time, so they united more easily and gathered together regardless the skin colors or origins. Society as a whole was more racist but victims didn't have a voice in this pre-internet era. And ghettos weren't a joke.
@@chucku00 I disagree. Society is much more racist now. If that song were released today, you'd have liberals' crying that it was white supremacy...or cultural appropriation....or pointing out that the two black members of the band were forced to the back of the stage. It wasn't perfect back in the day, but there was a lot more racial harmony than today.
The great thing about the Mid Night Special was that the bands played live. No soundtracks, no autotune, No Lip syncing. They played the instruments and actually sang the song. If you didn't have talent, you didn't go on the Mid Night Special.
Sort of. Janis Joplin was voted “Ugliest Man on Campus” at college in Texas because she hung out with black people in the blues scene. The artists themselves were some of the true leaders of American civil rights and the expression of love and diversity. That music will last for ever. This is my first time watching you all. Joy!
True story: Wild Cherry was a rock band playong ckubs in Ohio. They were playing a club in Cleveland which had a predominantly black audience. In the mid 1970s, people of color preferred funk and disco over straight-up rock abd roll (and those styles were becoming more popular among all people). During the gig in Cleveland a member of the audience shouted to the band "play that funky music, white boy!" And it inspired the band to come up with this song. This song became an international hit and made it all the way to #1 on the billboard hot 100 in, i think 1976 or 77, if memory serves.
The fun has left the building when peeps that played the race card got involved. It has destroyed our integrity as a Nation to succeed from racism. Promoting health, wealth, and blessings for all Americans no matter what color is the objective.PEACE.I only have one color missing from my family. Oriental and still looking.
I'm 67 and remember very well when this song was released in 1976. When it first came out a lot of people thought it was a Black band. The hair, man we all had long hair (women included) and Afro's back then. It was a sign of the times.
What I love about this song is it's basically a true story. They were a rock band, disco was taking over. They had to either get funky fast, or they were going to have to get jobs. Playing funk allowed them to score more gigs.
I'm from that era. I was 16 when this song came out. Can't wear my "angel wings" anymore...Aquanet hairspray killed my scalp. Now I wear wigs. I'm 60 now. Back can no longer tolerate wearing platform shoes and can't find a decent pair of bellbottoms to save my life. But I still jam to this tune. Back in those days, music brought us together. No one gave a damned about skin color. They were good times. Completely opposite of today. Now let me go get my wide comb for my back pocket and find my lip gloss and gtfo outta here! Thanks for the flashback!
I am 61 a teenager in the fabulous disco 70s. I LOVE THIS SONG. I would put on my tight satin pants and satin jacket and go to the local disco roller skating place and have THE TIME OF MY LIFE, Good times
To this day, “Play that funky music” is THE party song. When this song is played, the place goes crazy. Wild Cherry was a rock band, and they had to adapt and became a funk band. This was their first song as a funk band. To think that this was their first song as a funk band.
Wild Cherry released this in 1976 at the beginning of the disco disaster. The hairy chest and gold chains was the guido look with Afro and bell bottoms. Big hair, eyeliner and spandex was the 80’s. That was rock/pop era. Then early 90s was torn clothes and long unkept hair... grunge era. Honestly .... the 80’s rocked. I loved the make up and clothes, hairspray forever. Best part is since we dressed like that the girls and guys could share. LOL🤟🏻
Angel Flights , Acetate shirts and platforms...saw these guys in concert 1977.. I was 16 then..big..huge afro...I was surprised to know these guys were white...and the other group was AWB..
I'm sorry, but every time I look at pics of ppl from the 80's I think "What the hell was everyone thinking?" Lol. My parents looked crazy as hell back then too, lol. I will _never_ get the huge teased hair, blue eyeliner, & huge streaks of blush.
@@avaunamallett6176 KC was always about boogie down! And, if you read the lyrics, about hooking up too but we'll give him a pass since it was the 70's.
@@erikayahchelle1123 I just watched the Foxy video for 'Get Off'. I'll suggest that everyone was on cocaine in 1978. Also, every disco song is: 'We'll boogie down. And then I'll come over to your house. And we'll boogie all night long!' People were getting their freak on back in the late 70's!
Little known fact....Wild Cherry was a struggling hard rock band until a brotha from the audience yelled "Why don't you play some funky music white boy!" 3 days later....they reinvented themselves.
This funky song from 1976 when rock started losing to disco funk & Wild Cherry was a r&r band & looking to get into the popular disco music 😻 They did it with this funky tune that drove people crazy & filled the dance floors when this was played by the dj !! Wasn’t a black or white thing it was a disco funk thing 🥰 people couldn’t stand still & everyone would be singing ! Fun, fun, fun & this would be played at clubs, parties & bbq’s & roller rinks 💋☮️💃🕺🎸🎺🥁🎷🤣
This is some straight-up soulful "Stank-Face" FUNK from the 70's!!! When this song came out back in the day and wherever it was played, the dance floors got packed at the clubs, discos, wedding receptions, high school dances, block parties, house parties, cookouts, picnics, etc...and I'm talking about all races, all skin colors, nationalities & ethnicities would just "JAM" to this "BANGER!!!" You heard that thump? That was my Mic Drop!!!
Takin' me back to my high school days! Never missed Midnight Special on Friday nights. The chains with the chest hair never did it for me, yuk! I'm 62 now and it still disgusts me 😝
I was in a band in the 70's and we made up a song that started off as kind of a spoof of this one, with a deliberately slightly awkward funk rhythm. We were from one state to the west of Wild Cherry. Just having fun. We played it once to a live audience and all the black folks started dancing anyway.
Brian May , the guitarist from Queen, still has the same hairstyle... it’s just now masses of long white curls instead of long brown curls. (I only name him because none of my relatives still pop those 70s styles)
The singer, Rob Parissi, wrote this song and got very rich off the royalties. He was able to retire at 40 solely on this song. He's still getting mailbox money from it to this day. So kids, don't sell the rights to your art because one day it could set you up financially for the rest of your life.
This is only THREE YEARS LATE .. but I'm 68 years old. I remember when this song was released, I remember watching this show on TV and as for hair, back then I was a LONG HAIR hippie, hair halfway down my back. After retiring I thought, heck, I'd like to have rock & roll hair one more time so I let it grow and for about the last 15 years I've once again had hair halfway down my back.
Wild Cherry was a hard rock cover band, but with the advent and popularity of the disco era, it began to be difficult to get bookings because audiences wanted to dance. The performers on the recording included lead singer Rob Parissi, electric guitarist Bryan Bassett, bassist Allen Wentz, and drummer Ron Beitle, with session players Chuck Berginc, Jack Brndiar (trumpets), and Joe Eckert and Rick Singer (saxes) on the horn riff that runs throughout the song's verses. The single hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on September 18, 1976; it was also No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart. The single was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipments of over 2 million records and eventually sold 2.5 million in the United States alone. Parissi told the band that if they wanted to get bookings, they were going to have to start to include dance tunes in their sets, but the band resisted becoming a disco band. While playing at the 2001 Club on the North Side of Pittsburgh to a predominantly black audience, a patron said to band member (drummer) 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. The lyrics literally describe the predicament of a hard rock band adjusting to the disco era.
@@laurakali6522 I remember all the fuss and maintenance to have that Berry Gibb, Farrah Fawcett hair. All the setting mouse and usually half a can of hair spray just to create that needed 'Hair Helmet' and make it look natural, which was so tough to keep throughout the night of dance and partying. I use to be envious of those with 'Fros'. They just needed to periodically 'pick' to fluff and even them. And many could hide their pick in their hair and not be noticed.
That's the tail end of Woodstock days and there's lots of great tunes from that era. T-Rex , Bang a Gong is another hit. I don't know many guys still rocking the hairstyle. Most of them by now are bald and can't. I have one friend who still can. He still plays drums every chance he gets. 😂
Had a close friend throughout high school and ever since. The white boy had the biggest fro I've ever seen. Said he could hide 20 J's in it. Saw him recently after being away for almost 30 years. My man's head looks like a bowling ball now. 😂
Music is described as a rhyme in time. One can love any music regardless of their background. In a similar way we can love, respect, and support one another as well. When times get tough...DANCE! I love me some motown. Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson, Clarence Carter. Peace!
I love this and I'm almost 70. I love so many kinds of music back from 60s on up. I don't know about today's music. I love to dance since I was a kid. It's nice to see you having fun!
Our regular hangout was a club attached to a bowling alley in Rosemount MN back in the early '90's. Shout out to my City Limits crew!!! We'd all be doin' what we did. Drinkin', Shootin' pool, bowlin', and dancin'. The DJ would put this song on and everybody, I mean everybody, would stop what they were doing and start shakin' it. I'm talking people on the dance floor, bowlers, pool players, bartenders waitresses, bouncers, people in the restrooms, even people sitting at tables. And, if you weren't a regular we would help get you started. It became a regular thing at this place. Every Friday and Saturday night at the same time every time. One whole place of Dancin' Fools!!! It was a sight to see!!! I miss those days.
Oh goodness, I’m from Ohio and while not this era, girls rocked the 80’s hair for WAY too long 🤣. Whatever makes you happy, I’m not trying to pick on anyone’s appearance. But there were some people that kept that 80’s hair that weren’t even old enough to have rocked it in the 80’s 🤷🏼♀️ to each their own. You rock it long enough it’ll come back in style anyway.
LOVED this song when it first came out. I was in high school. And even though this was definitely not her kind of music, my Mom even loved it. Great reaction!
In the mid '70's Disco came out of Motown R&B and funk. A Disco was a dance club with a DJ who played (vinyl) LP and single hits on a turntable. The roots of Disco is in the name. A Discotheque was a retail record store with sales racks full of LP's and singles as well as isolated glass front booths with doors, all equipped with headphones for the customers including intervals along the record racks. You could request the store owner to put on your fave track or album and one or more people could listen along to the same tune if they wanted. Customers would dance while they listened and flipped through the record selections in the racks. It was a place to meet and hook up with friends or a lover and have a bop while you shop. The idea just grew out of the store into newly established recorded music and DJ clubs meant strictly for dancing as more and more people caught onto the craze.
Thanks for posting this. . . brought back memories - I was a senior in HS when this song was released. And as far as my ‘hair style’ back then: No comment.
Man, I was a kid back then and I still can't approve of what that keyboardist was wearing. I guess that's why fashions change. The young uns start hating on what everyone else is wearing.
The Keyboard player is Mark Avsec he is an Attorney in Cleveland. He was not an original member though his sound was necessary. I worked with these Guys in Sound and Lighting.
@@mwfmtnman although I was born is 89 my parents and grandparents opened me up to a wide variety of music that has only grown as I've gotten older. But I have friends who are stuck in their lane when it comes to music..
I remember watching this performance live and being mesmerized by the trumpet player spinning his trumpet. I was a trumpet player in the school band at the time and I just thought it was the coolest thing. Nothing like some old school music. It was just fun.
In the 70’s we thought Wild Cherry was a black band!! Remember we didn’t have visuals just the tunes. Guess we didn’t think white guys could funk out like that😆 70’s funk was so awesome!! You two are so cute😁✌️🇨🇦 Subscribe🌸✌️
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@Half and Jai. If y’all like reacting to country music Listen to “Feathered Indians - by Tyler Childers”. Worth a listen it’s pretty good or if you want a good laugh listen to “Barrel racer land-
This was when musicians took inspiration from each other without worrying about race or royalties! This was white and black combined, as it should be!
I used to think the same but I’m realizing it wasn’t at all as it should be. It was heading in the right direction
You're somewhat idealizing the past. The reality was pop musicians were considered as marginals at the time, so they united more easily and gathered together regardless the skin colors or origins. Society as a whole was more racist but victims didn't have a voice in this pre-internet era. And ghettos weren't a joke.
@@chucku00 And yet they found a way to come together. You can't make good music like that without a common consensus.
@@chucku00 I disagree. Society is much more racist now. If that song were released today, you'd have liberals' crying that it was white supremacy...or cultural appropriation....or pointing out that the two black members of the band were forced to the back of the stage. It wasn't perfect back in the day, but there was a lot more racial harmony than today.
@@Martin.Wilson Stop smelling your own farts by upvoting your comment and blaming racism on liberals, you digbat.
The great thing about the Mid Night Special was that the bands played live. No soundtracks, no autotune, No Lip syncing. They played the instruments and actually sang the song. If you didn't have talent, you didn't go on the Mid Night Special.
Used to watch that. I think it was on NBC.
Back in those days everyone jammed to everyone's music and music was a lot more diverse and integrated than today.
Sort of. Janis Joplin was voted “Ugliest Man on Campus” at college in Texas because she hung out with black people in the blues scene. The artists themselves were some of the true leaders of American civil rights and the expression of love and diversity. That music will last for ever.
This is my first time watching you all. Joy!
I had requested Janis Joplin 🔥👍 She had a lot of Soul
totally agreed! nowadays everything has become ugly and vile. We didn't have that shit back then.
Truth
Exactly!!
True story: Wild Cherry was a rock band playong ckubs in Ohio. They were playing a club in Cleveland which had a predominantly black audience. In the mid 1970s, people of color preferred funk and disco over straight-up rock abd roll (and those styles were becoming more popular among all people). During the gig in Cleveland a member of the audience shouted to the band "play that funky music, white boy!" And it inspired the band to come up with this song. This song became an international hit and made it all the way to #1 on the billboard hot 100 in, i think 1976 or 77, if memory serves.
That’s why people try to stay stuck in that era, BECAUSE it was fun.
The fun has left the building when peeps that played the race card got involved. It has destroyed our integrity as a Nation to succeed from racism. Promoting health, wealth, and blessings for all Americans no matter what color is the objective.PEACE.I only have one color missing from my family. Oriental and still looking.
My mom has a friend with curly hair and she still wears it in a mullet.....
yeah. no censor-bs back then. just true friendship. we got leftists today #anti-fun
It's a trope, no matter the era of people longing for the "good ole days", when they were as, if not more than, fucked up than the current era.
the best!!
This was my era of music. See everybody’s finally figuring out the 70’s and early 80’s music was REAL!! Enjoy watching y’all!
nice
Me too! I can still "get down". Best
dance music, Funk!
I'm 67 and remember very well when this song was released in 1976. When it first came out a lot of people thought it was a Black band. The hair, man we all had long hair (women included) and Afro's back then. It was a sign of the times.
It was different back then...WE WERE ALL TOGETHER IN THE CLUBS....
Music has no color,; so many talented musicians back in the day; it was pure raw talent
What I love about this song is it's basically a true story. They were a rock band, disco was taking over.
They had to either get funky fast, or they were going to have to get jobs. Playing funk allowed them to score more gigs.
True story.
Yup, Wild Cherry became a funk band because they were losing gigs.
Man there was nothing like the 60s and 70s and 80s.Everyone got along together. Music music.
When I was a young kid my mom and I would JAM to this song in her little car, and always end up busting up laughing. This music is nothing but joy.
Dont forget this was also the disco era, and the cheesy clothes went with the disco vibe
I'm from that era. I was 16 when this song came out. Can't wear my "angel wings" anymore...Aquanet hairspray killed my scalp. Now I wear wigs. I'm 60 now. Back can no longer tolerate wearing platform shoes and can't find a decent pair of bellbottoms to save my life. But I still jam to this tune. Back in those days, music brought us together. No one gave a damned about skin color. They were good times. Completely opposite of today. Now let me go get my wide comb for my back pocket and find my lip gloss and gtfo outta here! Thanks for the flashback!
We had the life didn't we!!! You made me cry and laugh at the same time....ah...if we could back time 💜
Angel flights?
Lol AMEN 😂
I am 61 a teenager in the fabulous disco 70s. I LOVE THIS SONG. I would put on my tight satin pants and satin jacket and go to the local disco roller skating place and have THE TIME OF MY LIFE, Good times
To this day, “Play that funky music” is THE party song. When this song is played, the place goes crazy.
No matter what genre comes or goes... Funk will always revive itself! No help needed!😁☝🔥💯
The lady introducing Wild Cherry was singer Helen Reddy, who passed about a week ago. :(
R.I.P Helen Reddy
And she was awesome! RIP Helen
Love her. Still a great one!
Yes it was. She sang the anthem “I am woman” when we could voice independence without hating men.
One of the most amazing voices in pop. "I Am Woman", "Angie Baby" greatness.
This singer is definitely a soul man.
I was 10 years old when this song came out and it was still an amazing song when I was a teenager and it still an amazing song 50 years later!
To this day, “Play that funky music” is THE party song. When this song is played, the place goes crazy.
Back in the day if you were in the club and this song came on....you were dancing.😎
If you didn't dance to this you must've been dead.
To this day, “Play that funky music” is THE party song. When this song is played, the place goes crazy. Wild Cherry was a rock band, and they had to adapt and became a funk band. This was their first song as a funk band. To think that this was their first song as a funk band.
Wild Cherry released this in 1976 at the beginning of the disco disaster. The hairy chest and gold chains was the guido look with Afro and bell bottoms. Big hair, eyeliner and spandex was the 80’s. That was rock/pop era. Then early 90s was torn clothes and long unkept hair... grunge era. Honestly .... the 80’s rocked. I loved the make up and clothes, hairspray forever. Best part is since we dressed like that the girls and guys could share. LOL🤟🏻
There was the Glam Rock of the seventies with all the makeup. Remember David Bowie aka Ziggy Stardust?
Angel Flights , Acetate shirts and platforms...saw these guys in concert 1977.. I was 16 then..big..huge afro...I was surprised to know these guys were white...and the other group was AWB..
The women back then had lots of taco meat on their tacos. Today you just get the shell. :)
The real players with the chest hair and gold chains had a COKE spoon >n the mix!
I'm sorry, but every time I look at pics of ppl from the 80's I think "What the hell was everyone thinking?" Lol. My parents looked crazy as hell back then too, lol. I will _never_ get the huge teased hair, blue eyeliner, & huge streaks of blush.
You should do some K.C. and the Sunshine Band. They had some funky bangers back in the day.
Agreed. I love KC and the Sunshine Band! If "Boogie Shoes" comes on, my four year old gets DOWN!
@@avaunamallett6176 KC was always about boogie down! And, if you read the lyrics, about hooking up too but we'll give him a pass since it was the 70's.
Get Down Tonight is my FAVE!!
I was just going to say that or the group Foxy “Get off”.
@@erikayahchelle1123 I just watched the Foxy video for 'Get Off'. I'll suggest that everyone was on cocaine in 1978. Also, every disco song is: 'We'll boogie down. And then I'll come over to your house. And we'll boogie all night long!' People were getting their freak on back in the late 70's!
Little known fact....Wild Cherry was a struggling hard rock band until a brotha from the audience yelled "Why don't you play some funky music white boy!" 3 days later....they reinvented themselves.
This funky song from 1976 when rock started losing to disco funk & Wild Cherry was a r&r band & looking to get into the popular disco music 😻 They did it with this funky tune that drove people crazy & filled the dance floors when this was played by the dj !! Wasn’t a black or white thing it was a disco funk thing 🥰 people couldn’t stand still & everyone would be singing ! Fun, fun, fun & this would be played at clubs, parties & bbq’s & roller rinks 💋☮️💃🕺🎸🎺🥁🎷🤣
Men wearing eyeliner and makeup was more dominant in 80s more than any era...gotta love those cool ass horn guys lol
Yeah. I don't think she's old enough to remember the 70s. Probably thinking about the hair bands of the 80s.
British glam rock of the 70s was into makeup - T-Rex, David Bowie, Sweet etc
@@simianinc yeah still more dominant and more widly accepted in the mid 80's
Started in the 70s with bands like kiss
@@gdiaz8827 I think Alice Cooper pre-dated Kiss with the makeup, and I'd bet someone probably pre-dated Alice as well.
This is some straight-up soulful "Stank-Face" FUNK from the 70's!!! When this song came out back in the day and wherever it was played, the dance floors got packed at the clubs, discos, wedding receptions, high school dances, block parties, house parties, cookouts, picnics, etc...and I'm talking about all races, all skin colors, nationalities & ethnicities would just "JAM" to this "BANGER!!!" You heard that thump? That was my Mic Drop!!!
Earth Wind and Fire Let's Groove Tonight and The Commodores Brick House a couple great hits from back then.
They sound really good live. You don't hear that much these days.
If y'all like this then y'all gonna love DR. JOHN - RIGHT PLACE WRONG TIME it has real New Orleans funk
Dr John at Tip's. Pick a year, it was always a killer show.
You'll never get that funky riff out of your heads, it's been in mine for over 30 years
This was an extraordinary live version. Just about spot on.
Takin' me back to my high school days! Never missed Midnight Special on Friday nights. The chains with the chest hair never did it for me, yuk! I'm 62 now and it still disgusts me 😝
I'm with you on the chains and chest hair thing. Especially after dancing when they'd be all sweaty...ugh.
lol
By the way, this was not punk rock, not even close!
This was funk.
Funk.
I was thinking more like disco.
Please don't tell me someone said that 🤦♂️
don't think they were saying this was punk. They said punk rockers wear makeup and nail polish
Do you guys realize we tore the floor all to pieces listening to this music? I used to have to ice my knees after every party I went to.
I was in a band in the 70's and we made up a song that started off as kind of a spoof of this one, with a deliberately slightly awkward funk rhythm. We were from one state to the west of Wild Cherry. Just having fun. We played it once to a live audience and all the black folks started dancing anyway.
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"Taco meat, the chain was the cheese"- I'm done. I'm outta my seat and on the floor, I'm tappin out 😂
I remember having my mind blown when I found out the lead singer of wild cherry was a white man
Me too... Totally surprised me.
@@52156drj How racist!
Look up Home by Marc Broussard but don't look for the first verse and chorus
Lyrics should have been your first clue.
I am 55 and I just discovered that while watching this reaction! 😆
I developed and changed a lot since the 70s. Except i'm still wearing Levis 501
lol nice
Y'all's smiles are SO contagious!!
If you close your eyes, you can sometimes imagine Rick James is singing this.
"...after you die. Your neighbors have to come and cut the music off"
That's how I wanna go out!
This was great, brought back so many memories.. 1976 those were the days.. You guys are awesome.. I had to subscribe... 💯😄💖
Brian May , the guitarist from Queen, still has the same hairstyle... it’s just now masses of long white curls instead of long brown curls.
(I only name him because none of my relatives still pop those 70s styles)
The singer, Rob Parissi, wrote this song and got very rich off the royalties. He was able to retire at 40 solely on this song. He's still getting mailbox money from it to this day. So kids, don't sell the rights to your art because one day it could set you up financially for the rest of your life.
Gotta get up and BUMP when this song comes on !!!❤️❤️❤️
This is only THREE YEARS LATE .. but I'm 68 years old. I remember when this song was released, I remember watching this show on TV and as for hair, back then I was a LONG HAIR hippie, hair halfway down my back. After retiring I thought, heck, I'd like to have rock & roll hair one more time so I let it grow and for about the last 15 years I've once again had hair halfway down my back.
i was 3 months old when this came out. i'm 45 now and it's still kickass, groovy, funk with that axe meltin solo \m/
Loved these guys from teenage years, I'm 57 and love classic rock
Fun fact, I chose this song for the first dance at my wedding.
Amazing choice
Wild Cherry was a hard rock cover band, but with the advent and popularity of the disco era, it began to be difficult to get bookings because audiences wanted to dance. The performers on the recording included lead singer Rob Parissi, electric guitarist Bryan Bassett, bassist Allen Wentz, and drummer Ron Beitle, with session players Chuck Berginc, Jack Brndiar (trumpets), and Joe Eckert and Rick Singer (saxes) on the horn riff that runs throughout the song's verses. The single hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on September 18, 1976; it was also No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart. The single was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipments of over 2 million records and eventually sold 2.5 million in the United States alone.
Parissi told the band that if they wanted to get bookings, they were going to have to start to include dance tunes in their sets, but the band resisted becoming a disco band. While playing at the 2001 Club on the North Side of Pittsburgh to a predominantly black audience, a patron said to band member (drummer) 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. The lyrics literally describe the predicament of a hard rock band adjusting to the disco era.
Hey Half & Jai, those of us who sported 'The Hair' back then... well, tough to sport it now when you only got 1/4 to 1/3 of it left. :-)
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and what's left is all in the wrong place.....sigh.
I miss when guys looked like that!
@@laurakali6522 I remember all the fuss and maintenance to have that Berry Gibb, Farrah Fawcett hair. All the setting mouse and usually half a can of hair spray just to create that needed 'Hair Helmet' and make it look natural, which was so tough to keep throughout the night of dance and partying. I use to be envious of those with 'Fros'. They just needed to periodically 'pick' to fluff and even them. And many could hide their pick in their hair and not be noticed.
Hey, the were stylin' back in the day. Just remember, all these band members are now in their sixties and seventies. Grandpas!
Check out “What You Won’t Do For Love” by Bobby Caldwell. Most people didn’t realize he was white....
Open Your Eyes
Wait he is white????????
This was the days of great rock an roll.❤ Still listen to it.
Hell'a Fun, I seen one of their first Shows at Wheeling Park Saturday night dances; IT WAS WILD and they went National not long after that
It’s nice to see a couple having so much fun together!
Love this song was 15 when it came out, should have seen my dance moves... killed it!
“While My Guitar Gently Weeps” with Prince, Tom Petty
Santana's cover is better.👍🏼
Yes prince fucking kills it
2were5678 how dare you 😂 I’m sorry I love Carlos but you can go somewhere else if you think he did a better cover than prince 👑
Maaaaan, I miss Prince. 💜 I hope y'all are able to react to some of his songs/videos. ✌🏻😎
@@2were5678 Pfff...not even close & I'm a Santana fan.
That's the tail end of Woodstock days and there's lots of great tunes from that era.
T-Rex , Bang a Gong is another hit.
I don't know many guys still rocking the hairstyle. Most of them by now are bald and can't. I have one friend who still can. He still plays drums every chance he gets. 😂
try "dance to the music" by Sly and the Family Stone
oh YES YES YES ...Got to go and Listen to that Now ..
That's one of the best songs ever My goodness how can anybody not Jam to that song damn it!❤😂
'70s, the decade that fashion forgot!
This song was everywhere back in the day. Everyone singing it in the clubs 😎
Had a close friend throughout high school and ever since. The white boy had the biggest fro I've ever seen. Said he could hide 20 J's in it. Saw him recently after being away for almost 30 years. My man's head looks like a bowling ball now. 😂
gotta hide his Js somewhere else now!
Music is described as a rhyme in time. One can love any music regardless of their
background. In a similar way we can love, respect, and support one another as well. When times get tough...DANCE! I love me some motown. Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson, Clarence Carter. Peace!
❤❤❤❤ SUCH a GREAT song !! Every1 has heard it, in a movie or somewhere, but No One knows the band !! Lol
I love this and I'm almost 70. I love so many kinds of music back from 60s on up. I don't know about today's music. I love to dance since I was a kid. It's nice to see you having fun!
Yes my younger sister has the same fricken hair style for the last 40 yrs I should send you pics but she would be so pissed
Plus sadly - no idea how to post a picture in people's comments on TH-cam
This was played by cover bands, then DJs, at weddings to get the PARTY started.
Been waiting for you to do Ram Jam’s “Black Betty”!
My headstone shall read: “She laid down that boogie and played that funky music til she died”!
I'm having this played at my funeral. I couldn't count how many times I danced to this in the 70s.
Our regular hangout was a club attached to a bowling alley in Rosemount MN back in the early '90's. Shout out to my City Limits crew!!! We'd all be doin' what we did. Drinkin', Shootin' pool, bowlin', and dancin'. The DJ would put this song on and everybody, I mean everybody, would stop what they were doing and start shakin' it. I'm talking people on the dance floor, bowlers, pool players, bartenders waitresses, bouncers, people in the restrooms, even people sitting at tables. And, if you weren't a regular we would help get you started. It became a regular thing at this place. Every Friday and Saturday night at the same time every time. One whole place of Dancin' Fools!!! It was a sight to see!!! I miss those days.
WE ARE THE WORLD....back when singers care about more than themselves.
He's lucky that horn didn't go flying into the crowd
Oh goodness, I’m from Ohio and while not this era, girls rocked the 80’s hair for WAY too long 🤣. Whatever makes you happy, I’m not trying to pick on anyone’s appearance. But there were some people that kept that 80’s hair that weren’t even old enough to have rocked it in the 80’s 🤷🏼♀️ to each their own. You rock it long enough it’ll come back in style anyway.
LOVED this song when it first came out. I was in high school. And even though this was definitely not her kind of music, my Mom even loved it. Great reaction!
In the mid '70's Disco came out of Motown R&B and funk. A Disco was a dance club with a DJ who played (vinyl) LP and single hits on a turntable. The roots of Disco is in the name. A Discotheque was a retail record store with sales racks full of LP's and singles as well as isolated glass front booths with doors, all equipped with headphones for the customers including intervals along the record racks. You could request the store owner to put on your fave track or album and one or more people could listen along to the same tune if they wanted. Customers would dance while they listened and flipped through the record selections in the racks. It was a place to meet and hook up with friends or a lover and have a bop while you shop. The idea just grew out of the store into newly established recorded music and DJ clubs meant strictly for dancing as more and more people caught onto the craze.
YOU GUYS ARE MY FAVORITE
Thanks for posting this. . . brought back memories - I was a senior in HS when this song was released. And as far as my ‘hair style’ back then: No comment.
Check out KC and the Sunshine Band "I'm Your Boogie Man"...
Or "Boogie shoes"
Play that funky music “white boy”
Been loving this for 30 years or more
Man, I was a kid back then and I still can't approve of what that keyboardist was wearing. I guess that's why fashions change. The young uns start hating on what everyone else is wearing.
The Keyboard player is Mark Avsec he is an Attorney in Cleveland. He was not an original member though his sound was necessary. I worked with these Guys in Sound and Lighting.
You two are TOTALLY A COUPLE...Don't lose that!
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Not punk rock....Punk Rock would be The Sex Pistols or the Ramones.
Glam Rock ....I Think they Mean .....
@@laceylocket1 Is that what it falls under I just called it rap...
@@tracythehippiechick Yes ..Think of early Bowie .Sweet .T Rex .etc etc
@@laceylocket1 I guess I never thought about it.. ...so..Elton John would be cross Genre?
Back in the 70s Glam rock had the clothes and makeup see the bands Gary Glitter and The Sweet Ballroom bliitz
Got an uncle who's been rockin' a Rod Stewart hairdo since the 80's.
Also, if you guys do a Halloween Ike and Tina you gotta do a react in costume :)
i'm 56 and have a feather cut with part in the middle since 1980. 40 years and still rocking the feather cut.
*”First time hearing #1 Billboard songs”*
Yeah... Sure, buddy. 😂
If you only you knew
If that's the case it is a sad statement on our societies segregation and living in bubbbles.
@@mwfmtnman I think it is easy to live in music bubbles where you only listen to what your friends listen to...
@@morghann21313 true, lucky for me I was born in 69 in SoCal and man was that an eclectic inclusive time and place,..musically anyway
@@mwfmtnman although I was born is 89 my parents and grandparents opened me up to a wide variety of music that has only grown as I've gotten older. But I have friends who are stuck in their lane when it comes to music..
I remember watching this performance live and being mesmerized by the trumpet player spinning his trumpet. I was a trumpet player in the school band at the time and I just thought it was the coolest thing.
Nothing like some old school music. It was just fun.
The white man perm phase lasted too damn long as well.
In the 70’s we thought Wild Cherry was a black band!! Remember we didn’t have visuals just the tunes. Guess we didn’t think white guys could funk out like that😆 70’s funk was so awesome!! You two are so cute😁✌️🇨🇦 Subscribe🌸✌️
guys check out vanilla ice's version of "play that funky music" too!
I'm 57 and i remember this song when it came out in 1976. Great number
Fun fact: this was the first dance song at my wedding 👰.. at my request of course
THANKS FOR TAKING THAT SILLY MASK OFF👍HAD THIS ON 45 IN 76'🤗 THIS SONG IS ACTUALLY A TRUE STORY 🤷♂️
Back in the 1970's there were mixed bands. Black and white and Spanish all together. You don't see that today. WHY, what a shame. 9-18-2021
I love watching youngsters discovering the the music from my youth!
Exactly what I was about to say! This old school music is fun! We need more old school in these crazy times!
I remember that people did not realize how much influence black music affect ed us. It has always been great