people finding out "PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC WHITE BOY " IS SANG BY A WHITE BOY !
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- Опубликовано: 23 дек 2020
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As a bass player who can play funk, don’t let blue eyes fool you. Soul is colorblind
Yep, some people get the spirit of a type of music and skin doesn't tell you that. There's a relatively long history of musicians and artists ignoring cultural conventions when it comes to segregation.
One name is all we need to know that... Stevie Ray Vaughan.
You are so right.
It just demonstrates just how far racism has been allowed from certain communities. We can all blame the left for the black folks reactions here...
The time when the most funky black and white played together and made wonderful music. Great time.
It can still be that way if we can just convince people to stop listening to Democrats and the Media. We can get along. I had many good friends in school -- see how I left out "Black" there? It starts with that. Morgan Freeman is a wise man.
some of the best music...ever
If I understood correctly, they were a failing group until they switched it up to be more funky. I also think it's kind of funny that he didn't realize that they're white when there's that literal line "play that funky music white boy."
@@ICannotStandLeftards Yes, we should do the opposite of Democrats and all meet at a Trump rally...LOL... " Where's my African-American at?"---Donald Trump asking for one of the 3 African-Americans his campaign pays to be front and center at his rallies.. You got to love the racists on the right and their projection.
@@ICannotStandLeftards& Republicans. We spread love to all.
The reason they're stunned is the fact these are young people! Those of us that lived in the 60's and 70's know exactly who Wild Cherry and the Bee Gees are!! God, I'm old...lol!
Tbh the 60s/70s look hella more fun.. 🙅♂️🙆♂️💁♂️
Nothing to do with that, they know the songs, they've heard them, they had just never seen the artists themselves hence the confusion, because of the artist's voice
You dont have to be from the era, you just have to have a small interest in music. These are mainstream songs afterall.
@@BeaTheBear28 derp
I was born in the 90s and knew this.
I knew they were white because my ass is old! I grew up with this music. 😂😂😂
Sames😉
Yeah. Remember seeing this on the Midnight Special well before home video recorders were commonplace.
Me too!!!
Same here. Surprises me people dont know this.
Me, too. Was in a band in the '70s that actually wrote a song that started as a spoof on this one, with funky beat. We played it in front of an audience and the black folks liked it and were dancing to it. And we were white.
I’m confused by the fact that they are confused. Literally the name of the song.
Right? Lmfao
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
And the lyrics of the song are literally about him playing rock music, then switching to disco/funk and the crowd loving it and saying "play that funky music WHITE BOY" do people even listen to lyrics lol
The name of the song is actually “play that funky music”. If you watch the individual reactions they refer to that as the title of the song. That’s why they had no idea about the “white boy” part of it.
@@Brian61010 we thought they were talking about a white person getting down. Not that he was referring to himself.
I was a teenager in the 70's when this came ut. We didn't care who sang it. If it was good, we partied to it. We never looked at race, in the music. A lesson we should learn today
Another 70s teen here and you got that right!
thats not the point here lmao
Another '70's teen here, I think we've regressed from that, and I pray we can get it back.
My favorite aspect of this is the guy’s dog chillin on a leather chair in the background.
Same! The dog isn't feelin' the groove.
Yup, so cute 💖
He been givin his pup sum CBD dog treats.
Now that I've seen it I cant stop laughing
Yep. Thought it was a dog-shaped cushion until he moved his legs
Musicians create music. It is their own creation. Somehow we forget and pencil it in to our own narrative. Music was never made to seperate us. It was made for us to celebrate us! On a stereo, without a stereotype.
My stereotype is Bose.
My stereotype is pioneer
@@jamihart9631 nice 👌
Well said!
Stfu not if said musicians are purposely trying to sound like & imitate a specific sound someone else pioneered or created first. “All great artist steal.” The question is who shall profit in the end, the ppl, the artist or the record companies...?
Why are people so surprised that it's a white guy. It's literally in the lyrics.
"Somebody turned around and shouted"
"Play that funky music, white boy"
I though he was black as a kid, I'm mixed, as you can see in my pfp, when I was a kid I though it was in a way mocking white people for not being able to sing in that way. As an adult I now realize that historically that makes no sense but if I never saw that he was white it's not like I would have ever put a thought into it. I assumed he was black because his voice matched that.
@@SethNeroBaker hey man im white and I always thought it was a black dude who made a song jesting about how white folks didnt do funk and the song was like a playful invitation XD
@@music79075 Fair point. I was surprised recently to figure out that Jamiroquai is a white guy from England. I always thought that he was a somewhat lighter skinned black man whose skin tone was washed out by bright studio lighting as part of the aesthetic for the video. lol, I do not properly process faces or races sometimes.
Oh brother, aint nobody paying attention to them lyrics especially back in the days. Even now I didn't hear him say "somebody turned around and shouted.
Its pretty much on the lyrics "Play that funky music white boy"
I thought it said "funky music RIGHT boy"
I had no idea what the other lyrics were though... it could have been a black person saying that to someone else. 🤷♀️
There are a bunch of black artists who crush country songs, and there are a bunch of white artists who can get properly funky. Heck, list the top rap artists of all time and The Beastie Boys will always make the top 10. This is why music is so cool. I wouldn't be surprised if someday I heard a face-melting guitar solo and found out it was played by an 80 year old Asian lady. Rock on, literally everybody. Rock on.
True!
I cant tell if “beastie boys in the top 10” was bait or not
Look up the band taste of honey. They were a surprise in the 70s
Black folks invented Country music so that bit is no surprise
The Beastie Boys were Jewish, not white
That guy confuses me lol, he's Australian, he has a Manchester hat on and the Scottish flag on is wall.
Because many of us have roots in Great Britain 😊
@@Michelle-pc6gp I'm Welsh, so a lot of my friends growing up were Manchester fans ( Besides are own team of course) and i have family in Scotland, but i didn't know that people from countries outside the UK even knew about British football teams, never mind supported them. It's cool to see though.
Us Australians are all Heinz 57 varieties...when we get told to go back to where we come from, we have no idea where that is...an arm here, a leg there, an eye somewhere else...and our hearts right here, in the mountains, the deserts, the bush and the beach ❤️🇦🇺🦘🐨
@@masonbrickwood5545 I know u didn't ask for this but check this out:
I'm Mexican and grew up in México, and let me tell you this, you don't have an idea of how many people know about british football teams and support them over there lol, even I am a Manchester fan myself
Mate... there is a lot of Australians who love soccer just as much as we love rugby.
an Aussie, with a Scottish flag in the background, wearing a Manchester United hat, reacting to an American band who is white but who he thought was black, wombo combo
A band that is from Scotland
@@stuartkruse2690 They're from Ohio.
@@Aurora-tp3dy I'd be wiling to give Ohio to Scotland, but I think that might constitute illegal interference in foreign elections.
“He got a afro” lmaooo
Not so uncommon in the '70's
@@Glittersword It's a perm from what I can tell, and yes, it was more common back in the '70s and into the '80s for men to have big hair. Thankfully, it's not permanent and it did eventually fall out of fashion.
you gotta do one for Redbone - "Come And Get Your Love".
a lot of people didn't know that a Native American band made that song, & their shocked realizations are priceless to watch considering it is a pretty well known song.
YESSSSS
Redbone rocks. Got #5 on top 100. The First, First Nation group to do so to the best of my knowledge.
Oh black Betty too
There is one for them and it's hilarous the reaction
I love seeing the younger generations discovering this music and these bands. Their assumptions are turned upside down and seeing the shock and then them just grooving to it is so satisfying 💜💜💜
Showing my age, in the 70's this was common. Everyone loved Disco and Funk music. Didn't care who was singing as long as the beat was funky and you could dance to it. Y'all need to hear Elton John's Bennie and the Jets, KC and the sunshine band, Hall and Oates " SARA SMILE". They got played on r&b station. So don't judge a book by how they sound.
Somebody reacted to Eli's Coming,by Three Dog Night, and said, "White people in the '70s had *soul*! If I lived in the '70s, and heard that song, I would buy that Album!"
don't forget Average White Band.
She's Gone by Hall and Oates is near the top of my list of all time greatest soul songs. Those guys were amazing.
Soul has NO COLOR ! Music has no boundaries or borders… listen and learn ! Same as we when hearing culture from across the world - Be Blessed Everyone ❤
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Does it matter? Did he break some law by using his God given voice. I love this song. I'm white and want this played at the end of my funeral because I loved dancing to it in the 70s.
I'd go to that. Lol
Yeah, he still is a brother even if he is white, only this way we will achieve true happiness.
Yeah, they did. For these Marxists snowflakes is called "cultural appropriation" since ancient times!
@Christoffer Aguilar In my early 20s dancing on a regular basis I gave no throught to the color of the singers. I liked or didn't like a song and that's all that mattered. I felt I was the Dancing Queen!. Those were the good old days. I do remember a band posted a sign " We Don't Play Proud Mary. DON'T ASK". I couldn't have even defined the word "funk".
@@LazarusSlade oh my god go back to 4chan incel
Apparently they all heard the song but not the lyrics.
“And just when it hit me, somebody turned around and shouted ‘play that funky music WHITE BOY’”
They aren't just white--They're Scottish! Edit: I have been reliably informed that my statement is not correct. Wild Cherry hails from Ohio. My mistake.
No they are coming from Ohio from Mingo Junction
Ummmm,no.They are from Steubinville Ohio ,Mingo Junction Ohio and a couple are from West Virginia
Cleveland Ohio
@@Tallguy203 okay, cool. I'm wrong. Still a classic song, though.
@@stephanietip Okay, I'm wrong, but his reaction is still funny, though.
People forget that music back then was the best. No added effects to your voice like it is used now. Not all artist today use or need the effects but most do.
Next should be "people realising Anastasia isn't Jack Black"
Or people finding out that Justin bieber slowed down sounds like post malone
I think this is the last one I'll do lol. I'm just trying to ride the wave a little and get the little extra boost that I can out of it.
@@SpartanBlue Bruh dont stop this is Gold hahaah
Even the dog was so surprised it passed out.
This goes to show music is a universal language regardless of race color or sex
This dude and "KC" from KC and The Sunshine Band been going to the cookout for DECADES.
And likewise, Darius Rucker from Hootie and the Blowfish is always invited to our family gatherings lmao
@@EzioHanitore I love Darius and his voice, no matter what music genre he sings!!
Yep. He sure was. I was very young girl when this song came out. I Was born in 1974. So two years. But I'd remember it later because my folks would always play it. Still a groove. All these years later.
The back story was they were playing a black club and got called out for not having more Motown jams. He was literally told “Play the funky music white boy.” He went on break and write the lyrics, got his band to play the chords and there it was.
Love this!!!
Music can bring us together. ❤️
This was a jam in the day.
Miss those days.
The 60s and 70s were an amazing time for music.
I've always loved this song. When I was on my honeymoon at Disney World in 2014, they had an employee play snippets of songs, and you had to guess that title and artist. When she started playing this song, she said no one has ever been able to name this song. I shouted the title and band, and her jaw dropped. I told her, "I absolutely love this song."
She can't possibly be serious about that. This is a relatively well known song from the '70s.
@@SmallSpoonBrigade she looked and sounded serious to me.
Recently saw Foghat live at SeaWorld Orlando, and this song was their encore, turns out this dude is the same guitarist!
You my guy! Lol. You're thumbnail is for the ages, bro. You make it that much more satisfying. You crackin me up. Love it.
It's call "Blue-eyed Soul". Others are Hall & Oats, Average White Band (AWB), Bobby Caldwell, and more.
The righteous brothers
chris stapleton
Steve Winwood
Bobby Caldwell!! I love all of the artists you mentioned, but Bobby Caldwell could sing anything and I’d listen!
It would be hilarious if someone thought The average white band was not white.
Back in 1976 it didn't matter. So why should it matter today. Old school music is what our country needs. Let's get it together people.
He just told you that he’s being told he’s white, I don’t get how so many people are confused.
I literally only ever heard the title words... never heard the other lyrics so it could have been a different story with different lyrics. 🤷♀️
I’m so confused how ppl are really that shocked. white singers usually have different distinct voices all the time in music, so I’m wondering why this was hard to point out. Is it cuz he’s saying the words “play that funky music white boy? And that’s why ppl thought he wasn’t white. I can’t see it being any other way lol
Style is purely cultural. Anyone can have any sound if their voice is well-suited enough. Race has little to no weight on it.
Because he sounds black to them. Not hard to understand.
It happens man, Even Dr. Dre was shocked to find out Eminem was white when they first met.
It's because he's singing like a black man. What is so hard to understand
@@witdajuice6763 he wants to be cool by "not seeing race" "we're all humans man"
We're ALL brothers and sisters :) JS
Hmmm..i dont think alot of people agree thou in the USA😅😅😅
I had this same reaction a couple of decades ago. Interesting to watch others have that "out of body watching your reality re-arrange" feeling that I had.
The bands name is the hook. White dudes, and from Scotland...
You're thinking of Average White Band
Steubenville (OH) - Scotland. Close
Ohio!
@@colonelingus6871 Wait Wild Cherry is from Steubenville? That's where I live lmao
Thank you she got it! “ play that funky music WHITE BOY” right there in the title! I live reaction videos! It makes me so happy that young people can live the songs older people grow up with and love as well. By the way I’m one of the old people that love that music, but I am a heavy metal head banging grunge loving rap R and B 60 year old white woman. May have on Cardi, may have on Marylyn Manson!! Keep checking out the older bands❤
Skill and talent knows no boundaries
Anyone can be great at anything despite their ethnic background
Everybody acts like clayton bigsby just pulled his hood off WP
Just proves that the young people of today have no idea about anything
I saw them in concert! They opened for Santana
This made my day! 😆
They would have the same reaction when seeing Terry Kath, from early Chicago.
Loved him.
It’s the record labels that keep the races apart. They figure a music buyer will buy an album from someone who looks like her or him.
there is a nugget of truth in this. But it doesnt account for the fact that people love jimi hendrix, eminem, tom morello, tosin abasi, beastie boys, to name a few.
Record labels have less influence and relevance than ever due to the internet and people for the most part have given up on the idea that certain genres of music are only for people of certain skin colours. Rap music has become status quo for young white people and rock and metal is getting more popular in black culture.
its not quite there yet, but there is a major shift happening right now in rock music and you only need to look at the thousands of reaction channels of black people listening to rock music to figure that out. theres also a major guitar revolution happening in north africa right now, and its quickly becoming a hotbed for guitar based rock influenced music. there are incredible guitarists coming from north africa right now such as Mdou Moctar.
the days of music being divided by race are almost over. it dies a little more every day and we are all better for it.
@@JungleScene I hope this is the case because from 2008 to 2016 race relations where set a blaze in America and knocked decades back by corrupt and lieing politicians who created problems where there were none, to cause division in order to gain power. So now we are having to recover again but that won't happen unless people wake up to the lies that we are being told.
This is hilarious. The reactions. I've known he was white all my life. My mother played this all the time, even bought it again on CD in the 90's. I thought everyone knew things like that. This guy is white. So are The Righteous Brothers, who are also not brothers. The Bee Gees are white. There were black people in white bands, too. So...looks like it really doesn't matter. Talent is talent.
Stunned. I imagine this is kind of how Americans felt the first time they saw Charley Pride sing on TV, after listening to him on the radio.
I love Charlie Pride we had all those albums and 8 tracks Charlie was on the cover. I love all kinds of music from funk to country. Would watch Soul Train, The Midnight Special, and Solid Gold when I was a kid.
The dog dreaming in the back ground was the best reaction of the whole vid and the dude with the funky face to a straight face was next
That third guy had me laughing..."Hey gotta afro?! He got funk!" 😆
I grew up in the seventies listening to this song as a white boy, never knowing a while guy sang this song. Just as surprised as the people in the video. Thanks for sharing.
It is in the song title lyrics, "Play that Funky Lyrics WHITE BOY!"
How do these people not know this stuff?!!
I love this! Break stereotypes down! We all bleed the same color!
Listening is fundamental. The chorus LITERALLY SAYS, "Play thay funky music white boy. " Just wow .🤦🏽♀️ AND as a lifetime Bee Gees fan, I'm gonna need that kid to take back that Bee Gees #2 comment.😡
Lol I loved this video 😂 this is what they dont want. All colors jamming together! United in FUNK 😂
Can't wait to see their reaction for Hoodie and the Blowfish
If they're shocked by this, wait until they discover Janice Joplin
Favorite dance song in my day and now!!!! Made up a choreographed dance to this song- ...lay down and play that funky music now....
They would freak out hearing Cowboy Song by Thin Lizzy. I thought it was a white guy, lol. I found out a decade ago he's a Black Irish Cowboy.
Seeing those hosts' reactions was priceless. Yes, that lead singer has got some real funk (or is it jive?) when he sings.
Yep..... What is the name of the song???? Hello!!!!! Y'all are crazy & cracked me up🤣🤣😂💖
Hilarious Bro!😏
Lol I’m over here just thinking “Listen to the lyrics!”.
Back when a Brother and a Buddy went to concerts groovin. That lit bruh
Third vid I've watched on this channel, this is epic. There were a lot of white guys playing disco music in the '70's and '80's. We never thought twice about it. I just can't stop laughing that people didn't know these people were white. I've got to show my wife some of this stuff.
The dog on the couch couldn't give a rip! 😆
When are we as people going to stop judging ability and intelligence by race so sad.....
(I’m just stating what’s been told to me on other RUclips comments) but rap, hip hop, funk, soul, and blues. Among some others are the blacks music. And whites shouldn’t culturally appropriate because it’s stealing from the blacks. I myself as a Mexican think music is universal. And you as any race can make whatever music you damn feel like.
@@mikieb77 except all of it is derived from folk music in the appalachian mountains which in turn comes from Ireland.
@@jacobjones4766 right. And there is nothing wrong with that. But what I’m saying is stop labeling certain music to certain races. Music is universal. Yes it may be more popular to some other races. And more traditional style to that race. But music don’t belong to one race no matter the origin.
@@mikieb77 im really not trying to be offensive but as a white dude who lives in an all black neighborhood in North phillidelphia, its not just with music. The African american community in general is very closed and claims anything they make as a collective, were as whites (latinos included) and asians tend to have a much more individual thought process in the unitedstates at least. Like whens the last time you've seen a white guy stopping a black guy from listening to country? Never gonna happen, white people generally wouldn't care about that so I agree with you on those points. But I know blacks like to pretend hip hop is one of the only ways to get out of the hood and that it creates generational wealth, which is mostly a load of crap. While the government severely oppressed blacks in the 20th century in the 21st century the major downward spiral into that kind of thinking and generational poverty is the lack of education and two parent households. Because its alot harder to go broke and turn to the streets when you have two people supporting you instead of just one
i don’t think they’re judging ability, but moreso sound.
Don't people ever listen to the songs' lyrics or what?..
Got news for you, all the great soul music from the 50/60s was perfected in the muscle shoals studio was done by white guys. There is a great documentary on you tube about it.
It’s brilliant⚡️⚡️
They telling him “play that funky music white boy” they talking to him. He’s the white boy!
I'm 67 and all these years I thought he was a brother!Haha I love it!!
Man, their minds will be blown by Bobby Caldwell!
I honestly can't believe you guys don't know about this I'm 56 years old and I was born in 1967 I grew up listening to this on the radio Casey kasem's American top 40 back then it included Rock and top 40 music me and my brother jam to this all the time
We were specifically told, "judge a person by the content of their CHARACTER, NOT the color of their SKIN" and for the past 50+ yrs, we have done anything BUT that.
Everyone's responses are priceless. Have you heard Rag n Bone- Human. Very soulful
This just proves that music is truly an international language that transcends skill color... and yet again proves that old saying right, never judge a book by it's cover or the music it makes.
We're all bro's together, let music unite
If you listen to the lyrics, the song is about him and how he got musical religion. Funk and soul are about being the music, owning it; good music has no color ♥Btw, back in the 70's, EVERYbody had an afro!
Wild Cherry! They opened for Average White Band back in the 70s and both fabulous! Check out Average White Band if you never heard them--white but sound black for sure.
Have you done one where people realize that I will always love you was actually Dolly Parton’s song first
im reacting to the sleeping dog dreaming in the background
Disco days, Disco style ! They took a chance. Playing covers got old. 🤩
Mr. video looking like he was betrayed 🤣🤣🤣
I love Disco. I danced and sung to all the 70 and 80s Disco and never thought of colour.
I am 66 years old and I grew up listening 🎶to this song 🎵😍
LOL, the clue is right there in the song, play that funky music white boy! 😂😂
Heeyyy patrolgaming let’s get it
If I'm not mistaken this wasn't really their style of music even. They just kept getting asked if they play any funk when they'd go places. So they wrote this song. Maybe I'm wrong. Seem to remember hearing that story.
I don’t get it. How come they have never seen the video clip before?They use RUclips,don’t they?I saw the video in Eastern Europe back in the days when I was a kid. Now I’m 49 and I’m shocked that they are surprised
This is hilarious! The song is obvious, isn't it?
I love their reactions. Priceless.
That's okay, when I was younger, I thought "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" was sung by an all black band, with a female lead singer! I was very surprised to find out it was 4 white guys!
Ain’t no color in music peeps..
Definitely is in how the industry is ran
Really!! Play that funky music WHITE BOY! You had to have seen that
These people are sitting there like, "Life is a lie."
I was confused too,I thought they were singing,play the f..king music,white boy.Didn't know about the colour doubts