Do the Funky Chicken, by Rufus Thomas

Do the Funky Chicken

by Rufus Thomas

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1.	Do The Funky Chicken 03:18	info	buy track
2.	Let The Good Times Roll 03:39	info	buy track
3.	Sixty Minute Man 07:18	info	buy track
4.	Lookin' For A Love 03:49	info	buy track
5.	Bear Cat (A.K.A. Hound Dog) 02:57	info	buy track
6.	Old McDonald Had A Farm (Part 1) 03:44	info	buy track
7.	Old McDonald Had A Farm (Part 2) 02:47	info	buy track
8.	Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown 02:42	info	buy track
9.	Soul Food 04:31	info	buy track
10.	Turn Your Damper Down 02:54	info	buy track
11.	The Preacher And The Bear 03:56	info	buy track
12.	Funky Mississippi 02:58	info	buy track
13.	So Hard To Get Along With 03:05	info	buy track
14.	Funky Way 02:58	info	buy track
15.	I Want To Hold You 02:11	info	buy track
16.	Itch And Scratch (Part 1) 03:14	info	buy track
17.	Itch And Scratch (Part 2) 02:45	info	buy track
18.	Boogie Ain't Nuttin' (But Gettin' Down) (Part 1) 02:58	info	buy track
19.	Boogie Ain't Nuttin' (But Gettin' Down) (Part 2) 02:43	info	buy track

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Although Rufus and his daughter Carla Thomas had given Satellite Records (precursor to Stax) its first hit in 1960, followed in turn by Rufus’s solo hit "Walkin’ the Dog," his star had faded by the late ’60s. The self-proclaimed "world’s oldest teenager" (age 51 in 1968) found inspiration in 1968 when he recorded Eddie Floyd’s "Funky Mississippi," backed by Booker T. & the MGs and the Memphis Horns, for an album that never saw the light of day titled May I Have Your Ticket Please? A year later, Thomas entered the studio again – this time with his son Marvell Thomas on keyboards and members of the Bar-Kays – to record "Do the Funky Chicken." The song was a smash, reaching #5 R&B and #28 Pop. Rufus was back on top, and the album Do the Funky Chicken was hailed as a career highlight. The follow-up, a two-sided hit of the menacing voodoo funk of "Sixty Minute Man" backed with the gospel-inflected "The Preacher and the Bear," made it to #42 R&B.

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released November 1, 1969

2011, © 2011 Concord Music Group, Inc.

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Rufus Thomas Mississippi

“I’m the only one of its kind,” Rufus Thomas asserts with justifiable pride. Millions of people around the world have danced to his hit records, including “Walkin’ The Dog”, “Do the Funky Chicken”, and the “Push and Pull.” He’s been a singer, comic, tap dancer, songwriter, and disc jockey and he’s the father of vocalist Carla Thomas, who also records for Stax Records. ... more

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