Play That Funky Music

 The Band Wild Cherry is best known for their hit "Play That Funky Music". They started out as a pure rock band but slowly turned towards disco because their fans kept asking for more dance music. Which the song "Play That Funky Music" references saying "Now at first it wasn't easy, changin' rock and roll and minds and things were getting shaky. I thought I'd have to leave it behind. But now it's so much better" During a performance, a crowd member shouted, "Are you white boys going to play some funky music?" Which inspired this song. The music begins with a bass/guitar solo and a bit of Rob Parissi riffing and yelling random sounds. There isn't much harmony in this song among the singing band members until it says, "White boy" There is a lot of guitar solo areas and Wild Cherry uses a lot of scat in this song, although they are a white band. In previous units we discussed how mostly black artists used scat but this is showing the integration of music types. This song and this band seems to represent the transition from funk music to disco music and retains a lot of attributes from both.