Next month will mark the 45th anniversary of “Wild and Peaceful,” the make-or-break album for Kool & the Gang. After releasing three studio albums through De-Lite Records, Kool & the Gang was advised ...
For years, I heard "Play That Funky Music" as some kind of statement of racial solidarity. The white boy singing the song, Wild Cherry frontman Rob Parissi, knew that nobody would expect a white boy ...