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Wild Cherry – Play That Funky Music Is BADASS! First Time Reaction

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20 Comments

@mikefixx7177 2 months ago

This song was played on the radio all the time in the 70s and 80s. It still played today at parties and picnics.

@CaminSarasota 2 months ago (edited)

This song saved me from being fired in 1982. I had taken a second job as a DJ on Thursday and Friday nights in a local club and was instructed to only play the house’s music. But I brought my own records anyway. On my very first night, after an hour of playing only the houses music, not a single person had gotten on the dance floor. The bartenders were giving my dirty looks. Finally I went into my own box of LPs and pulled out “Play that Funky Music.” and within 30 seconds the dance floor was completely full and the whole club was singing along. I kept that job for two years and never played a house record again and never had an empty dance floor again. Thank you Wild Cherry.

@huckleberryoutfitters7051 2 months ago

When this song came out people weren’t easily offended

@danwilliams5867 2 months ago

This song earned them millions of dollars and continues earning money for them today

@silversagerae6353 2 months ago

The old "Luden's" wild cherry cough drops.... lived on those when I was a kid in the winters ha 😂

@mes7moon 13 days ago

Don’t know how old you two are but surprised you had never heard it! The 70s was the best music era ever and this is one of the top hits even if it was the one that wonder we had a lot of those! If you like funky, listen to KC and the sunshine band and Three Dog Night “mama told me not to come”

@Trifler500 2 months ago

Pretty sure this is the only version I've ever heard on the radio

@fastecp1 2 months ago

Great Song! And yes, Wild Cherry is considered a one-hit wonder.

@DonnBaca 3 weeks ago

The live performance on “The Midnight Special” is the best.

@royboy56100 3 weeks ago

Wild Cherry blew us all away back then...them and Average White Band were the two white bands doing it back then. The 70's were the Funkiest of all time.!!...We had it all...

@SheriDoty 1 day ago

Great dancing song!!

@billyjones1311 2 months ago

The drummer played at my church for a few years before he passed. Cornerstone Church.
Nashville Tennessee

@terigee7609 2 months ago (edited)

The first time I saw them on Soul Train you had to pick me up off the floor. Still one of the funkiest songs of the 1970s. Vanilla Ice? Spare me! Even the most rhythmically challenged person should be able to dance to this.

@pjg58x 2 months ago

Wild Cherry were technically a “One Hit Wonder”. Although they were together for about 9 years and released 4 albums and 15 singles, only this song was a top 40 hit, making no. 1.

@weekendgolfguys 2 months ago

Let me tell you another story about them. The band is from Mingo Junction Ohio, a town close to the West Virgina border. I was a music director at a radio station in Wheeling WVa. Some of the guys came into the station with an acetate copy of the song they had just recorded. I explained we don't just play anything but we'd be happy to listen and give our professional opinion. We got the first riff, put the whole song on tape and added it to our rotation immediately. 6 months later they won a grammy award. We got noting but we still know we started it at WNEU in Wheeling WVa

@enriquepina9829 1 month ago

Bought this Album in the Great 70's still got it , Rock n Roll is King 👑👑👑👑👑

@beverlyhill6783 1 month ago

This is the real version - the first one

@kevinlundgren1169 2 months ago

And it's been played at a lot of parties over the years!

@jeaniejoseph940 2 months ago

They are having so much fun! I always love watching the live versions.

@barryjurgensen9396 2 months ago

5:00 (album version)
3:12 (single/video version) The single hit No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 on September 18, 1976; it was also No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart