Wild Cherry

Wild Cherry | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 20, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B000002576
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #122,586 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Wild Cherry is an album released in 1976 by Wild Cherry. In 2011, Facebook's 101 Greatest Everything page rated "Play That Funky Music" the #1 Greatest Funk Song of All Time

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31 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Funky White Boys, December 12, 2000

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Thomas Magnum (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews
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Wild Cherry are a classic one-hit wonder. In the fall of 1976 they rode the burgeoning disco craze to the top of the charts with a catchy song based around a bar incident. Singer Rob Parrish and the band were playing in a bar and someone in the crowd shouted out to him to "play that funky music white boy". He turned that line into a song that will live on forever. While "Play That Funky Music" is a 70's classic, the rest of the album is pretty forgettable. "The Lady Wants Your Money", "Get It Up" & "What In The Funk Do You See" are serviceable, but pretty much everything else is not worth your time.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One marvel, four good, and four lousy tracks, August 27, 2004

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Marcel Wild (Matieland 7602 South Africa) - See all my reviews
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As most reviewers agree, the title track "Play that funky music white boy" is a thriller, and is worth the prize of the whole cd
(for my taste the awesome guitar solo could have been longer even)!
The rest pales in comparison but still contains four g o o d tracks; in decreasing order
The lady wants your money, I feel sanctified (a cover version of The Commodores or an even earlier band), What in the funk do you see, Get it up. The remaining four tracks are forgettable, probably produced in a hurry because the band was capable of more. I only know of one "white boy" band that gets as funky as
(the performing) WildCherry and that's Rare Earth. Listen to
Finger Lickin good on their album Midnite Lady, or Keepin me out of the storm on Back to Earth.

3.0 out of 5 stars Too Bad Wild Cherry Will Always Be A Two-Hit Wonder, December 17, 2011

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SimpsonsFan99 (Indianapolis, IN) - See all my reviews

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In the 1980s, I bought Wild Cherry's first LP at a yard sale and remember having previously owned "Play That Funky Music" years earlier on 45--it was one of the first records I ever bought with my allowance money; and I purchased it at JCPenney--of all places! Who ever thought Penney's sold music?! Ah, those were the days! Another thing I remember is that the B-side of "Play That Funky Music"--the next track on the album being "The Lady Wants Your Money"--is as catchy as the song that made the white boy band famous. There are some other gems throughout the album, such as "Hold On" and "What The Funk Do You See", but Wild Cherry relied too much on covers for their debut album, which was a major reason for their renown as a 1970s disco novelty act. (Of course, Joan Jett has gotten away with covers herself--it just took a little longer for her career to flame out.) The only other hit Wild Cherry released, "I Love My Music" in 1978, should have been included as a bonus track for this album.