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.

Bolden's " Funky Butt " was, as Danny Barker once put it, a reference to the olfactory effect of an auditorium packed full of sweaty people " dancing close together and belly rubbing.

The Funky Butt, Squat, Fish Tail, and Mooche are all performed with hip movements.

Funky Butt-" Well, you know the women sometimes pulled up their dresses to show their pretty petticoats-fine linen with crocheted edges-and that's what happened in the Funky Butt ... When ( Big ) Sue arrived at my father's tonk, people would yell ..." Do the Funky Butt, Baby!

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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.

The genre featured in a parody hit song by Jasper Carrott called, " Funky Moped ".

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.

*" Funky Cold Medina ", a 1989 song by Tone Loc

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 ?.”

* Maceo Parker sings the song on his 1975 album Funky music machine.

* A 1992 song by the group Black 47 is titled " Funky Céilí ".

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.

The title was a homage to the 1975 song Funky Gibbon, by The Goodies

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.

Another notable song by the group is " Funky for You ", off of their self-titled debut album.

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 ".

* 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.

* " Funky Gibbon ", a song by The Goodies

Funky was based on a Joe Cocker piano sample later used as the basis for Dr. Dre and Tupac's California Love.

Though Wilson was present for the Dutch recordings, he yielded to his bibulous tendencies ( primarily hashish and hard cider ) and rarely participated, confining himself to work on " Funky Pretty " ( a collaboration with Mike Love and the band's manager, Jack Rieley ), a one-line sung intro to Al Jardine's " California Saga: California ", and " Mount Vernon and Fairway ( A Fairy Tale )", a children's narrative suite musically inspired by Randy Newman's Sail Away that was promptly rejected by the band ; eventually, Carl Wilson capitulated and ensured that the suite would be released as a bonus EP with the album.

In 1954 the first Lotus Cars factory was established behind the Railway Hotel ( now Funky Brownz Bar ) on Tottenham Lane.

The same goes for Vanilla Ice: his follow up to his # 1 hit was a # 4 hit titled, " Play That Funky Music ".

Other characters include Cranky Kong, who sells the Kongs various new moves via his potions ; Funky Kong, who sells them guns ; Snide the weasel, who had formerly been King K. Rool's henchman before he was fired and thus collects blueprints for the Kongs ; and Candy Kong, who supplies the Kongs with musical instruments.

In mid-1972, Thin Lizzy were asked to record an album of Deep Purple covers, which was released under the title Funky Junction Play a Tribute to Deep Purple.

Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch was an American hip-hop group led by Mark Wahlberg.

At the height of the group's success, they also had a video game released by Digital Pictures entitled Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch: Make My Video, but the game was not a success and has been considered one of the worst video games ever made.

She was seen in the music video for George Michael's " Too Funky " in 1992, and appeared as herself in a 1996 episode of Melrose Place.

Benita was aided by two bumbling henchmen, the anthropomorphic speakers Woofer and Tweeter ( Joy Campbell and Van Snowden ), and her chauffeur and chief flunky, the German-accented Funky Rat ( Sharon Baird ).

The Funky Rat costume was also used for essentially the same role ( the Head Witch's Chauffeur ).

Her first solo album release in Europe on Musisoft ( Paris France ) All My Funky Friends, December 2000, sold thousands of units, and was hailed by Tower Records ( 2001 ) as the only authentic funk album to be released in over two decades.

Their single " Funky Sound ( Tear the Roof Off )" ( 1981 ) was a remake of the single " Give Up the Funk ( Tear the Roof off the Sucker )" ( 1976 ) by Parliament.

What is typically forgotten in narrative histories of hip-hop as in the history of this film were the appearances of pioneering artists like Sha-Rock who was a member of Enjoy recording group The Funky Four Plus One More, later known as Funky 4 + 1.

The Funky 4 + 1 was one of the first groups signed to Sugarhill Records and MC Sha Rock was an emcee to be reckoned with, female or male.

The Headhunters, with Hancock featured as a guest soloist, produced a series of funk albums, Survival of the Fittest ( 1975 ) and Straight from the Gate ( 1978 ), the first of which was produced by Hancock and featured the big hit " God Make me Funky ".

Bittersweet Sixteen was praised for being both a great introduction to the band and a treasure for seasoned fans, containing rare tracks such as the original version of Funky Céilí.