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This is a list of funk music artists. This includes artists who have either been very important to the funk genre or have had a considerable amount of exposure (such ...
The Bar-Kays is an American funk band [4] formed in 1964. The band had dozens of charting singles from the 1960s to the 1980s, including "Soul Finger" (US Billboard Hot 100 number 17, R&B number 3) in 1967, "Son of Shaft" (R&B number 10) in 1972, and "Boogie Body Land" (R&B number 7) in 1980.
Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century.
Pages in category "American funk songs" The following 86 pages are in this category, out of 86 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 24K Magic (song) A.
Soul/Funk groups used go-go beat in their songs. Examples of R&B were Club Nouveau "Lean on Me"(pop No. 1, yearend No. 10) Lebert "Casanova", and Midnight Star "Headlines". [22] The Junk Yard Band started out in 1980 as a group of kids (as young as nine) from the Barry Farm, Washington, D.C., projects. Unable to afford instruments for their ...
Farner in 1971. Farner was the guitarist and lead singer for Grand Funk Railroad as well as the songwriter for most of their material. His best-known composition is the 1970 epic "I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)". [4]
Rolling Stone listed "That's the Joint" at number 288 on their updated list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in September 2021. [2] It was also listed on The Pitchfork 500 and as 47th best hip hop song of all time by Rolling Stone. [3] It was named the best song of the 1980s by music critic Robert Christgau. [4]
The single "California Love" by 2Pac, Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman is the best-known song and most successful to sample "West Coast Poplock", reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks. The chorus, " California knows how to party" , was sung by Roger Troutman using his characteristic talk box and was taken from "West Coast Poplock."