Play That Funky Music, live 2008Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

[@2AChef-n-BBQ]

This song started me playin bass, never stopped, still jam with this song.....50 yrs later👍🏼🇺🇸🍻🤘🏼🔥

[@francisstolzer7670]

Rob Parissi, I don't know if you read these comments, but thanks for one of the greatest songs of my youth (and adulthood, and middle age, lol).I just finished watching your live performance on The Midnight Special for about the thousandth time and saw this video right underneath. Just had to watch. Another great performance. 59 years old living right outside Philly and I will listen to this until I die. I also have to say you had one of the greatest album covers of all time.

[@campstark1]

Hi Francis, I agree 100% with your comment. You said it better than me. I love this song!! Always have and always will. I have the Wild Cherry Cassette...back then the song was so different..beat, guitars, drums..Wild Cherry song..made any drab day, at work, into a Funky Time in the kitchens I supervised. Yay!! Thanks, Laura from NH

[@megatech1966]

He’s still got it

[@Sane-wq8ug]

I'm like Paul Simon, still crazy female after all these years LoL 😂🎉❤

[@Sane-wq8ug]

Play that funky music white boy, I'm Latin woman very few white boy's could keep up with me .😅

[@Sane-wq8ug]

I remember the first time I saw break dance I was amazied

[@randallamirante3112]

One of the best and greatest one hit wonder of all time!!! From the bicentennial summer of 1976..I was 22 that year and 1976 waa a great year for music

[@RubberDuc]

Wow, just AWESOME!!! I'm the lead guitar player in a band and whenever we play your song the roof goes off the place, no matter what venue or age range, no joke. It is still as awesome a song as it ever was, thank you for your talent and giving us other guitar players something to aim for!

[@markzuelch7452]

50 years of what is STILL the best funk ever recorded, White Boys and all!

[@jimmyketterman1272]

AMAZING!!! Absolutely killed it! Keep on rocking!!

[@monty3322]

Glad this popped up! An old time favorite, for sure!

[@FanOfFab4]

Never tire of this song!!

[@valaustria4271]

This song stays till we all dieeeee🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@janeamandaford4199]

Me neither! 💖

[@lizziesangi1602]

Awww Man, THE best funk - the beat and the lyrics - - There are just times when this tune is in my head and I just HAVE to hear it. Once I walked into a clinic and went up to someone I knew and just started singing this and he came right in with it, I knew he would, that's why I went up to him while he was sitting down and began singing this. And we weren't quiet about it, either. We were singing and added, till you die???? When we got to the back the guy that watches everything said he thought it was the radio especially when he heard the, till you dIE ?? ROFL so I guess we didn't do a bad job of getting down with PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC WHITE BOY. There's not many places you can walk into and just begin singin' with the other people there joining in all singing and getting down in full force. It was good. Thanks WILD CHERRY for composing the best funk tune and the best and most played funk tune in the world 💋💋💋

[@dianefontaine7204]

One of my all-time favorite songs! Thank you! I'm still sharing it all over the place.

[@seukfuhi]

The guy is still groovin' as hell ! This is one of the hookiest and best pop tunes in the history of music. Like lots of pop masterpieces -many Beatles, or Bee Gees hits-, I heard it was composed in what, 30 minutes or so?

[@monmixer]

On a napkin at a bar table.

[@Jeffstoyspokemoncars]

Love this song and you..proud to be from Dayton Ohio...my uncle was from Steubenville.

[@CountFunkenstein]

You're very welcome, and thank you!

[@bansheemoon]

Still one of the best!

[@kenclark9888]

You are too

[@summersavannah01]

absolutely funkin awesome - sounds as good as ever !!

[@jimmyketterman1272]

Right on!!

[@TAROTKATREADINGS]

Still got your chops, Rob! Love it!

[@joedrycln]

Beautiful Brother, Respect

[@peggypenny7743]

Oh yes...68 and dancing after midnight... lovin' it ❤❤❤

[@grebssie]

Wow. The man is still great! Love that song.

[@Dirtnap_McDinglestuffer]

i was born in 76. this always kicked ass when i was a kid and it still rocks \m/

[@JorgeHernandez-yr2xr]

Awesome, one of the best funky songs !

[@OpusDeFocus]

Rob Parisi, dude, PRINCE covered YOUR song in 2011!!!! Dude, you still got it!!

[@steby123]

Sound track to a lot of my Navy career !!!!

[@ciadanixy]

HOF, Outstanding

[@keithpruitt131]

What a voice and , what a great song.

[@csisp]

Awesome even after almost 50 years

[@lolaizaguirre]

Thanks for subiest jewel I will keep listening until I die

[@dariobellini7461]

DE UN ARGENTINO AMANTE DEL WILD CHERRY , PARISI Y SU BANDA ME ETRAPO EN 1976 CUANDO TERMINABA MI SECUNDARIA Y COMPRE EL SINCLE QUE SALIO , INOLVIDABLE Y ETERNO SINGER ALLWAYS

[@ziggylothbrook8644]

Still as amazing now as in 76 F'IN Rocks.........

[@wireless641]

Prior to Play That Funky Music Whiteboy, Wild Cherry used to play almost every Saturday night at the Whitehouse in Wellsburg, WV. They also played frat parties at Wahington & Jefferson College in Washington, PA which is my hometown. Rob sounds the same now as he did back then.

[@abelincoln3287]

Hey! Who knew the "My Pillow guy" could rock out!

[@Steve.Cutler]

Very cool, great job!! Thanks for posting!!

[@annaritaranalli1791]

Not easy singing and playing a song like this in front of a huge audience

[@dannydulva3845]

Keep on FUNKIN'!salute to you ROB!!thank for the memories!!love from manila!!!!

[@Swedefunkygirl]

sounds great :) !

[@kwoodroof]

Love him, love the song!!

[@leoluifergarcia]

Maravilloso tema master Parissi!!!!històrico!!!!bravisimos!!!!

[@kimsanda]

Old rockers never die ! The get better.

[@AmishWebmaster]

He had to go on back there and see if things were still the same. And they were still rockin and rollin to "Play That Funky Music." It still is a RED HOT HIT.

[@groofoot]

Rob is tha man!! I sent him a comment, and he replied to me; HOW cool is that?! woohoo! I have the Play The Funk album, and the Super Hits album, and am gonna go home and listen to one tonight! I used to have the eponymous CD, and a 2nd copy of Super Hits, but they both 'mysteriously' vanished from my car... lol ... careful who you let ride in your car, I guess... anyhow -- How exciting!

[@joerunyon7759]

The original song was on the album Electrofied Funk

[@groofoot]

@@joerunyon7759 ... which song? .... PTFM was on their self titled debut album .... 'Electrified Funk' was their second album ...

[@kylerownsx62]

He's still got it! Woot! I want to see him!!!

[@annaritaranalli1791]

Beautiful final too

[@GK1918]

very nice job

[@rushmore3927]

Pure jams!

[@brianholihan5497]

This song not only grooves like a MF, it also has great lyrics--they tell a story. Excellent songwriting, Rob.

[@LeongHenry]

Amazing music

[@jerzyboy1976]

i was 3 months old when this came out. it still has that funk groove will killer shred \m/

[@annaritaranalli1791]

What a great energy

[@funkyzero]

Wow, what a crew. We aren't really getting old, are we? It's really cool seeing all those faces again. I got a special kick out of watching Will Lee, he's always been one of those guys you could refer to as a real professional musician. Not very many people can do what he does and make it work on every single level.. and I mean the entire music spectrum when I say that.

[@walkingtallbaguiojustwalk]

i remember my younger years ...i was in junior high in the philippines

[@paulclifton5532]

Brother you got that funky music running in your veins ✌✌✌✌✌✌

[@romzeejamlee122]

nice funky music

[@charlielack8359]

YES. YES. YES.

[@krishmah586]

Excelente interpretación 👍🏿

[@anitamrohs9700]

Song Greatest 👍👍👍👌🎊

[@kathrynwoodroof894]

Love love love!!

[@ivette1333]

❤️😍

[@lollebolle]

We need more Cowbell!

[@klauszappa9623]

Great!!!

[@paulaburden9596]

AWESOME ❤

[@eddieoliva5979]

Temazo cuantas vivencias de juventud, esas no las cuento...

[@Moonmaedyn]

If you are in any type of band in the State of Ohio, you MUST KNOW THIS SONG. Seriously.

[@annaritaranalli1791]

Back up singers are talented too

[@MattPhelps229]

2:08 the dude's thinking "daaaaaaamn that is a NICE ass cowbell"

[@christoole1664]

Such an awesome song Rob. Are you playing this anywhere these days?

[@jqueen9891]

very talented band. in those days they had and have skills , now technology does everything press a button drums guitar etc piano sound like the guitar it sound like one big mess. Nothing like the real thing.the artist put his feelings into the instruments.and into their songs.

[@qrazybone1911]

"Da FUNK" Never Dies.....

[@annaritaranalli1791]

Talented band as well their front singer. .he should had italian roots

[@markzuelch7452]

Ever notice something? No matter where they played it, when they played it, how they played it or even how they played it, your feet always always found the groove, and it was always with that white boy!

[@kalishajariyapaiboon5106]

Awesome !!

[@chinaclipper1]

We knew Joanne, a friend of my wife. She was a beautiful Eurasian woman who played the most incredible piano at Max's Opera Cafe in the nineties when I was going to school up in the Bay area. Joanne was his wife.....

[@krispykr33m2]

Came out, got his guitar set up the killed without a sweat drop

[@redrighthand5488]

Was just watching a show when a woman, who is black, commented on this song and said she had never heard a white guy sing it.

[@ralphbenites1819]

I’v got the original 45 record 🍒🎸

[@annaritaranalli1791]

He looks much better now than in the seventys to me

[@ef418]

Dayton Ohio, the Funk Capital of the World

[@bikesfred]

wow

[@tooge47]

where are the two horn players ?

[@Sambergler]

oh yeah, more cowbell, definitely!

[@e-lonka1842]

L-O-V-E

[@tigerhugger66]

This is awesome! Oh, it was Jeff Carlisi not Bob who was .38 Special's guitarist and songwriter along with Jim Peterik of Ides Of March & Survivor.

[@adamdrummer1991]

No-one was playing the main riff...why?

[@CountFunkenstein]

Maybe you just need more clue, and less cowbell.

[@6000cs]

+Rob Parissi I enjoy seeing guys like you, Mark Avsec, Donnie Iris that managed to navigate that era, and still emerge solid and down to earth.

[@kjchicago1]

You're still jammin' on that guitar and rockin' out on that song!

[@anisonroberts2445]

I, the Impaler am a big fan of Wild Cherry. I even own the album Electrified Funk. My bandmates and I talk about it often. Please check out Dangerous Pleasure if you ever get the chance, we're on youtube.

[@garciap6753]

Eres el mejor, Saludos desde México, éxito en lo que hagas

[@delija999]

fucking good

[@1flexfit]

Holy shit i wasnt expecting it to be that tight because they were having some problems lol 😅

[@smonkey957]

Funkin A

[@abocas]

When I first heard this song back in the mid-seventies in cold Scandinavia, I had no idea that the band was white. Maybe we can’t funk. But it seems we can funk 😉

[@kenclark9888]

What’s with the microscopic writing in the middle of the screen

[@mauricioclaveria]

Lberty Devitto on drums!

[@NugNux]

wow, there's dedicated cowbell player

[@sdmackpictures]

Look who's on bass

[@ROBB-rm6jo]

Jon Gruden on the cowbell

[@billdowney6891]

Needs more cowbell!!!

[@kendai7890]

willLeeonbass？

[@holybigbang]

4:13

[@filipgrujic]

Needs more cowbell :D

[@MskMsk-yq4in]

Beer kielbasa in rock and roll Right northern Ohio

[@kirtlayman5440]

More Cow 🔔 Bell

[@johnhewitt1731]

At the end of the day your going to want more cowbell.