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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."
This is a list of notable funk music bands and artists. This includes artists who have either been very important to the funk genre or have had a considerable amount of exposure (such as in the case of one who has been on a major label).
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.
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 ...
One Way is an American R&B and funk band that was popular in the late 1970s, and throughout most of the 1980s, led by singer Al Hudson. The group's most successful record was "Cutie Pie", which reached number 4 on the Billboard Soul Singles chart and number 61 on the pop chart in 1982.
Con Funk Shun (formerly known as Project Soul) is an American R&B and funk band from Vallejo, California, formed in 1969. They were influenced by funk progenitors James Brown and Sly and the Family Stone. Signed to Mercury Records in 1976, the band had numerous successful national and overseas tours, eleven albums, and a number of hit singles ...
Blow Your Whistle: Original Old School Breaks & Classic Funk Bombs is a greatest hits album by American go-go and soul band The Soul Searchers. [1] [2] The album was released on February 19, 2007 and consists of a compilation of twelve digitally remastered songs from the group's two previously released albums (We the People and Salt of the Earth).
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]