Wild Cherry

Wild Cherry has funk / rock had a big success in 1976 with the funk song "Play That Funky Music".
Parissi Rob (vocals, guitar) was in the solid, diversified steel town of Mingo Junction, Ohio [1]. Parissi Mingo is a graduate of the school in 1968. Rob has his first group in 1970 in Steubenville, Ohio, one miles north of Mingo Junction, Ohio, on river. The group's name "Wild Cherry" was removed from a cough drops while Rob recovered from a short stay in hospital. The group plays the region in the valley of the Ohio, West Virginia, the Panhandle, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The initial focus include: Ben DiFabbio - drums, vocals and management - of Mingo Junction, Ohio, Louie Osso - guitar, vocals and head of Steubenville, Ohio, Larry Brown - bass, lead and backing vocals - of Weirton, West Virginia, Larry Mader - keyboards, vocals and direction - East Springfield, Ohio, and of course Parissi Rob - guitar and voice Hauptnavigation - of Mingo Junction, Ohio

The first members broke out, there are others who played with great success, as the cousin of Rob, coogi Stoddart - guitar, vocals and the background and the main Buchmelter Joe Bass.

A demo was in 1970 under the label Staehle-Tudor with the area A under the title: it is not someone else. Further documents were released under his own label, may be so high (but Lay Low), date unknown, something special and Spirit, 1971. The music of this stage was pure rock, funk-no. Cherry finally got a contract with Brown Bag Records. And many events took place between them to the bottom, 1973 (reprint of the last auto-label demo), Voodoo Doll, 1975 and Show Me Your Badge, 1973. Voodoo Doll was produced and co-author of the rich and successful composer Jeff Barry ( "monkey" fame). Although the Voodoo Doll (PM 45070) was so far as to Europe from A & M and not the albums is not in sight.

The group met at the time Parissi disappointed, left the stage, the manager of a local steakhouse. Rob quickly found that the concert is not cut Steakhouse - "too difficult". As his enthusiasm for the music is finally incomes, Rob has decided to take the company one last success.

A short time later, Parissi back from the group with new musicians. The new series consists of Bryan Bassett (guitar / vocals) and Ronald Beitler (drums / percussion / vocals), both from Pittsburgh, Pa., and Allen Wentz (bass / keyboards / vocals), came from Detroit, Michigan. The hard rockin 'quartet began the non-stop and have a huge following in Pittsburgh PA, has been repeatedly validated by the controllers to play dance music. Disco began his speech on the radio and dance floor. One night, in a break between the ranks of the club in 2001 in Pittsburgh, drummer Ron Beitler says the magic phrase belongs to the whole world ... "Play That Funky Music, White Boy." And Bob Parissi was immediately inspired to write the song on a table in the kitchen of the club, which lives forever. When the group went in the studio for the recording, a friend of the studio engineer heard the song, was away from the potential of success and the group has the attention Sweet City Records, the group immediately. The label on the recording of the song than on the location of the B-side with a cover of the Commodores "I feel holy," as originally planned. Secondly, Epic Records has spread widely across the world. When recording the first album, Mark, was a two keyboarder AVSEC meeting of the title of the album, "Nowhere where" and "The lady wants his money" and were invited to participate in the band after the album was released and the group was on the point at the beginning of the first tour.

"Play That Funky Music" was a great success with the publication in 1976 and reached a peak of number one on the Billboard R & B and pop charts. Even the sole and Wild Cherry's first album with the same name was platinum. The group was established as the best pop group of the year the magazine "Billboard and American Music Award for Top R & B Single of the Year and a pair of Grammy nominations for Best New Vocal Group and Best RB & Performance by a Duo or Group for this year, contributing to their success. "sanctified I Feel" was also considered a single form, the first album.

His album from 1977 and 1978, the album I Love My Radio electrified music is not Products Top 20 hits, while her album of 1979 just Surviving the game is not only one top-100.

U.S. Singles chart positions of their 3 other albums:

* Baby you do not know (1977, reached # 43)
* To remove hot (1977, reached # 95)
* Hold On (1977, reached # 61)
* I Love My Music (1978, reached # 69).

"Hot trotting" a minor hit in some markets of the United States.

Although never a success, the song "1 2 3 kind of love" has the right to feel the music on the beach along the North and South Carolina clubs on the coast, but it's still popular "hui, the song is in the area music anthology series Ripetta Records.

A musician, the group with guitarist / vocalist Donnie Iris (ex The Jaggerz). Donnie was credited with his fourth and final album. AVSEC mark with Donnie after the fall of Wild Cherry to the cruise, and also has a solo project under the moniker Cellarful noise from the year 1985.

Stoddart coogi back to nature, starting with the cherry in turn to support Electrified Funk. Coogi registered the third album, I love my music, with the banda. Who has an album of original songs coogi, if you are my love, to coogi singing with Rob Parissi. (Although the album I Love My Music jacket shows that all the songs were written by Rob Parissi, which is incorrect. The album on the label is correct.) Coogi Stoddart toured with the group's support of I Love My Music, but on the left for nature to survive has been registered.

Allen Wentz moved to New York after leaving the band and has become a meeting synthesist played on many albums and jingles. Has a number of indie projects over the years was a little indie films and has a song facilities. Always and draws on the various names and in his own name. Over the years he worked with artists from Luther Vandross and Roberta Flack, Cyndi Lauper on.

Is the guitarist Bryan Bassett successful production / engineering career working with many great artists of the blues. Easy guitar and him a place in the 90s with Foghat and Molly Hatchet. Foghat continued to visit and work in his studio.

Parissi later a disc jockey in Wheeling, West Virginia.

Play That Funky Music was by the rock band Roxanne in 1988 and samples of Vanilla Ice 1990 (for which no funds Parissi who later won $ 500,000 in a proceeding for infringement of copyright) and another success in dance clubs today. Music is regularly in the collections of funk and disco, and was in many films, television programs and became the theme song Craig Kilborn late in the night of television. Mars 31, 2009, Adam Lambert sang this song on TV American Idol.