It's been 50 years since Wild Cherry released their only No. 1 hit, "Play That Funky Music," but the song is still making history. The hit single from the band's self-titled 1976 debut album was just ...

One of the greatest funk songs of all time came from a hard rock cover band just looking to fit into the times. Wild Cherry, a band from a steel town in Ohio, got its start in the early 1970s as a ...

Sometimes the best song arrives when you have nothing left to lose. That was essentially the situation facing Wild Cherry in the mid-1970s. The hard-rock band had spent years working the club circuit ...