"Play That Funky Music" is a song written by Rob Parissi and recorded by the band Wild Cherry. The single was the first released by the Cleveland-based...

Vanilla Ice's cover of "Play That Funky Music", but the single was not initially successful. When disc jockey David Morales played "Ice Ice Baby" instead...

rock band formed in Mingo Junction, Ohio, in 1970 that was best known for its song "Play That Funky Music". Rob Parissi (lead vocals and guitar) was raised...

UK funky (sometimes known as UKF or funky) is a genre of electronic dance music which originated in England that is heavily influenced by soca, soulful...

supported by the release of three official singles: "Ice Ice Baby", "Play That Funky Music" and "I Love You". The album was met with lukewarm reviews, with...

who has played with several notable bands, but is best known as a member of Wild Cherry in the 1970s who had a hit with "Play That Funky Music". Bryan...

February 23, 2011. "American single certifications – Vanilla Ice – Play That Funky Music". Recording Industry Association of America. "American single certifications...

was a member of Wild Cherry after the group had a #1 hit with "Play That Funky Music." He also achieved fame as a solo artist in the early 1980s with...

and said, 'You gonna die, honkey!'" in 1999's "Brain Damage." "Play That Funky Music," a 1976 disco/funk hit by Wild Cherry about a rock band adapting...

1976. The album includes the group's only major single success, "Play That Funky Music". Song credits and lengths taken from original LP sticker. All songs...

14 October 1976 as a quintet, with a routine to Wild Cherry's "Play That Funky Music". The two male dancers in the final line-up, Haigh and Pearce, continued...

the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two weeks, behind Wild Cherry's "Play That Funky Music" and No. 1 on the Easy Listening chart. Billboard ranked it as the...

an independent record company called Ichiban Records in 1989. "Play That Funky Music" was released as the album's first single, with "Ice Ice Baby" appearing...

from the issue dates of November 8, 1975 through October 30, 1976. 1976 in music List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1976 List of Billboard Hot...

1991. 1991 in music List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1991 List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1991 "The Year In Music 1991 - Top...

Cherry. He also wrote the group's only hit, the 1976 chart-topping "Play That Funky Music". He was raised in the steel mill town of Mingo Junction, Ohio....

Mio Babbino Caro" (Composed by Giacomo Puccini) – Miriam Gauci "Play That Funky Music" – Wild Cherry "A Fifth of Beethoven" - Walter Murphy and the Big...

Penfifteen Club – "Disco MF" The City Drive – "Defeated" Wild Cherry – "Play That Funky Music" The City Drive – "Bring Me Everything" Christian B – "Baby Got...

Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch featuring Loleatta Holloway. It was released in July 1991 as the lead single from their debut album, Music for the People (1991)...

analyzes the song "Play That Funky Music", concluding that the lyrics present a musical example of Russell's Paradox. Paradoxes that fall in this scheme...

where Bolden's band played. As late as the 1950s and early 1960s, when funk and funky were used increasingly in the context of jazz music, the terms still...

Cherry's "Play That Funky Music" (either a dominant ninth or dominant thirteenth). During the common practice period of Western classical music, composers...

James Kalamasz & Alain Leroux – "Country Fever" Wild Cherry – "Play That Funky Music" KC and the Sunshine Band – "I Like to Do It" The Trammps – "Disco...

It contains the single "Keep On Playin' That Funky Music" a sequel to their 1976 hit "Play That Funky Music". It was also the first and only Wild Cherry...

for his recording contract with Sony Music before he started legal action to extricate himself from it. "Too Funky" had been initially earmarked for a...

his own introduction and would enter to the sound of the song "Play That Funky Music" at the beginning of his show.[citation needed] In August 2004,...

designing the primate-like alien creatures featured in the film. The film's music score was composed by John Powell, conducted by Gavin Greenaway, and performed...

"Flagpole Sitta" by Harvey Danger "Get Ready for This" by 2 Unlimited "Play That Funky Music" by Wild Cherry "Here We Go" by Bowling for Soup "Love Shack" by...

acetate exists of a 7-minute extended version of Play That Funky Music Jewish Boy, which suggests that there was a third single planned from this album...

Caspar) "Monster" (Weaklazyliar) "Here's Lookin at You" (Convoy) "Play That Funky Music" (Wild Cherry) "Love & Sex (2000)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July...