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Hit Parade: Give Up the Funk Edition Part 2

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🗓️ 28 October 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In the ’70s, funk was pop—the cutting edge of Black music and the way listeners got their groove on, before disco and hip-hop. After James Brown taught a generation a new way to hear rhythm, and George Clinton tore the roof off with his P-Funk axis, nothing would be the same. Rising alongside blaxploitation at the movies, funk took many forms: Curtis Mayfield’s superfly storytelling. War’s low-riding grooves. Kool & the Gang’s jungle boogie. Earth, Wind and Fire’s jazzy crescendos. But when funk began fusing with rock and disco took over the charts, would these acts have to give up the funk? Join Chris Molanphy as he traces the history of funk’s first big decade. You’ll ride the mighty, mighty love rollercoaster and get down just for the funk of it. Podcast production by Kevin Bendis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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where we do dramatic readings of the most wild and off-the-wall reviews on the internet.

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We find the funniest real reviews about everything from Vegas weddings,

1:00.3

matchmaking services, and Trader Joe's, to caves, toddler beds, and spirit Halloween.

1:05.4

You won't believe the things that people think absolutely must be set on the internet.

1:09.0

How else would everyone know that some caves don't have Wi-Fi? We hear about the good,

1:12.8

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And believe it or not, we got to the bottom of it. Join us every Wednesday where

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network. Welcome back to Hit Parade, a podcast of pop chart history from Sleet magazine about the

1:43.4

hits from coast to coast. I'm Chris Malanfe, chart analyst, pop critic, and writer of Sleet's

1:49.7

Wise This Song No. 1 series on our last episode. We talked about the rise of funk in the first half

1:57.8

of the 1970s when the 60s innovations of James Brown, Slice Stone, Isaac Hayes, and Parliament

2:06.7

Funkadelic were taken up by a rising generation of syncopated bands and soulful singers.

2:14.7

These acts from war to cool in the gang to the Ohio players saw their funky recordings rise

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