Wild Cherry was a top-level rock cover band on their second incarnation in 1975, playing the circuit in the Ohio and Pennsylvania region, with their own originals thrown into the mix. ![]() ![]() Wild Cherry’s “Play That Funky Music” has all the essential musical ingredients to get the party started- a killer riff, funky ninth chords, in-the-pocket drums, precise horns, a simple monster bass bottom end, requisite ‘70s cowbell, scat talking vocals and an undeniable sing-along chorus that manages to poke fun at itself with an insider’s ‘we’re in on the joke’ wink.Ī mixture of the Ohio Players “Fire,” Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition” and a whole lot of Eastern Ohio/Pittsburgh, PA white boy grease, “Play That Funky Music” was essentially written out of sheer desperation. It’s one of a handful of intro guitar riffs that makes people hoot and holler and shake it on down to the dance floor.
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