There may have been a disco backlash in 1980, but Funkytown was instantly and utterly irresistible. An absolute masterpiece of pop songwriting, it was always going to avoid the vinyl bonfires. Lipps Inc, pun intended, were formed in 1979 by Minnesota DJ Steven Greenberg. Funkytown had everything to make it a staple of both dancefloor and radio – instant earworm intro, easy to recall lyrics, singalong bridge, infectious chorus, all sung in a kooky, endearingly disinterested way by Cynthia Johnson. It’s a very simple record but that does it great credit, boasting the kind of melody and structure that a career composer should have found 20 years earlier. Disco may have allegedly sucked at the time, but Funkytown, from debut album Mouth To Mouth, still took the world’s charts by storm. It went to No.1 in 28 countries, including the States, while it spent a fortnight at UK No.2, held off by Don McLean’s cover of Crying, which presumably the British branch of the anti-disco movement were thrilled to bits about.
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