4. “Play That Funky Music” by Wild Cherry Out of all the summer playlist one-hit wonders on this list, none get the blood pumping quite like Wild Cherry’s 1976 funk rock hit “Play That ...

Ronald Beitle is known for Wild Cherry: Play That Funky Music (1976).

Then came a funky ... music, had tired of his various glam-rock personas, and was ready to reinvent himself as a white soul singer. Devlin says, ‘Bowie first came to Sigma with Ava Cherry ...