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* The song " Funky Cold Medina " by Tone Lōc refers to Spuds MacKenzie ( as well as Stroh's beer mascot Alex the Dog ) as being attracted to Lōc's aphrodisiac-drinking dog.
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Among his top ten R & B hits during this latter period included " Funky President ( People It's Bad )" and " Get Up Offa That Thing ", the latter song released in 1976 and aimed at musical rivals such as Barry White, The Ohio Players and K. C.
By the release of 1979's The Original Disco Man, Brown wasn't providing much production or writing, leading most of it to producer Brad Shapiro, resulting in the song " It's Too Funky in Here " becoming Brown's most successful single in this period.
One of the most famous Bolden numbers is a song called " Funky Butt " ( known later as " Buddy Bolden's Blues "), which represents one of the earliest references to the concept of " funk " in popular music, now a musical subgenre unto itself.
The " Funky Butt " song was one of many in the Bolden repertory with rude or off-color lyrics popular in some of the rougher places Bolden played, and Bolden's trombonist Willy Cornish claimed authorship.
In 1975, Jasper Carrott released The Magic Roundabout ( originally featured on his first live LP Jasper Carrot – In the Club ), a short, risqué comic monologue parodying the children's TV series, as the B-side of a 7 inch single, featuring his comic song " Funky Moped " on the A-side.
In 2007, his song, " A Funky Space Reincarnation ", was used in the Charlize Theron-starred ad for Dior J ' Adore perfume.
I thought he was talking about another song, but he was actually excited about a number called Do You Wanna Get Funky With Me ?.”
Between 1993-1994, the group assisted Hammer on his The Funky Headhunter album ( such as the song " Sleepin ' on a Master Plan " and others ), along with Suge Knight and the Whole 9.
He also narrated his own introduction and would enter to the sound of the song " Play That Funky Music " at the beginning of his show.
* The Manchester based band Sonic Boom Six sampled " Funky Kingston ", for their song " Monkey See, Monkey Do ", on the 2005 Champion Edition of their album, Sounds to Consume.
Producer Kravitz used the intro found on Public Enemy's instrumental, " Security of the First World ", with out consent, which was in turn based on the end drum break of James Brown's Funky Drummer, and used it as the basis of the song.
In 2008, the Weather Girls were listed as featured artists on the song, " Break You " by Ralph Falcon of the bands Murk and Funky Green Dogs.
In October 1986, Pseudo Echo released a rockier version of the Lipps, Inc. disco song " Funky Town ", which spent twelve weeks at number-one from December.
The riff is also quite close in sound to the verse riff from T. Rex's song " Funky London Childhood ", from their January 1976 album, Futuristic Dragon.
The long version of the 1976 Disco / Funk hit " Play That Funky Music ", by Wild Cherry, mentions " honky " towards the end of the song.
In this latter role, he sang the song " Always Read the Wrapper ", a parody of his own song " Funky Cold Medina ".
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Benny Andersson has written music to several films for screen and television ; the first attempt in the early 1970s for the obscure Swedish movie The Seduction Of Inga: the film flopped, but the ' Björn & Benny ' single " She's My Kind Of Girl " surprised the composers by being released in Japan and becoming a Top 10 hit ( the song renamed in Japan as " The Little Girl Of The Cold Wind ").
His # 1 R & B hit that year, " Cold Sweat ", sometimes cited as the first true funk song, was the first of his recordings to contain a drum break and the first that featured a harmony that was reduced to a single chord.
Some of speed metal's earlier influences include Black Sabbath's " Children of the Grave ", Deep Purple's " Fireball " and Queen's " Stone Cold Crazy " ( which was eventually covered by the thrash metal band Metallica ), from their 1974 album Sheer Heart Attack, and Deep Purple's song " Highway Star ", from their album Machine Head.
The band, now revitalised by the response to Live Aid — a " shot in the arm " Roger Taylor called it, — and the ensuing increase in record sales, ended 1985 by releasing the single " One Vision ", which was the first time since " Stone Cold Crazy " that all four bandmembers received a writing credit for the one song.
* They appear in the 1986 Hank Wangford Channel 4 television series The A to Z of C & W singing the Hank Williams song " Cold, Cold Heart ".
In chronological order others include: " I've Been Everywhere " by Hank Snow ( 1962 ) ( album of the same title ) and Johnny Cash ( 1996 ) Unchained reworked from the original 1959 Geoff Mack Australian-place-names version made popular by the singer Lucky Starr ; " Down on the Corner " ( 1969 ) by Creedence Clearwater Revival on their fourth studio album, Willy and the Poor Boys covered by a dozen other groups ; " Kalamazoo " ( 1995 ) by Luna on Penthouse ; " Cold Rock a Party " ( 1997 ) by MC Lyte on Bad As I Wanna B ; " Kalamazoo " a song by the rock trio Primus on the 1997 Brown Album ; " Top of the World " by Rascalz ( 1999 ) on Global Warning ; " Kalamazoo ", a song by Ben Folds Five on the 2004 EP Super D ; " 65 Miles from Kalamazoo " ( 2008 ) by R. J. Miller ( a lament for a lost Gibson guitar and a metaphor about " an old girlfriend from Kalamazoo "); and " Kalamazoo " ( 2009 ) by Mike Craver on his album Shining Down.
George Carlin referred to Dover, Delaware as the destination for an all-expenses paid holiday in a comedy routine spoofing a quiz show, and country music singer Garth Brooks refers to the city in the song " Cold Shoulder " on his 1991 album, Ropin ' the Wind.
Babeuf's song Mourant de faim, mourant de froid (" Dying of Hunger, Dying of Cold "), set to a popular tune, began to be sung in the cafés, with immense applause ; and reports circulated that the disaffected troops of the French Revolutionary Army in the camp of Grenelle were ready to join an insurrection against the government.
Chaplin's final speech was used as an intro to punk band The Menzingers ' 2007 song, " Cold Weather Gear ".
* " Cold War " ( song ), a song by Janelle Monáe, in the album The ArchAndroid ( Suites II and III )
He also wrote numerous songs for films and Tin Pan Alley, many of which have become standards, and was nominated for five Academy Awards for best song, winning once, for " Baby, It's Cold Outside ".
Newman also made his first foray into music for films at this time, writing and performing the theme song " He Gives Us All His Love " for Norman Lear's 1971 film Cold Turkey.
In 1958, West appeared at the Academy Awards and performed the song " Baby, It's Cold Outside " with Rock Hudson.
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