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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. He is known to have co-written songs for the band like" "Ladies Night," "Too Hot," "Jungle Boogie," "Celebration," and "Cherish." ...

Bernard "Pretty" Purdie has had a lot of bosses in his five-decade career. As "the world's most-recorded drummer," he can't even remember them all. But nobody forgets working for James Brown—and not ...

George “Funky” Brown, the drummer, founding member and one of the main songwriters of pop-R&B group Kool & The Gang, died in Los Angeles last night following a battle with lung cancer. He was 74.