Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rodney Brown, drummer on 1967’s “Funky Broadway,” a Dyke & the Blazers classic and one of the first hit songs to use a variation ...

The funky farewell number from a rare concert recording of Sly and the Family Stone, from 1967, shows how playful the group was in their early days. The medley, “I Gotta Go Now (Up on the Floor)/Funky ...