Only the Wild Survive

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Only the Wild Survive
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Studio album by
Wild Cherry
ReleasedMay 1979
Genre Funk, funk rock
Length38:57
Label Epic
Producer Rick Hall
Wild Cherry chronology
I Love My Music
(1978)		Only the Wild Survive
(1979)		 Play the Funk
(2000)

Only the Wild Survive is the fourth and final studio album by Wild Cherry, released in 1979. [1] It contains the single "Keep On Playin' That Funky Music" a sequel to their 1976 hit "Play That Funky Music". It was also the first and only Wild Cherry album to feature Donnie Iris (formerly of the Jaggerz) as a performer. After Wild Cherry's breakup, Iris and bandmate Mark Avsec would launch Donnie Iris and the Cruisers.

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Critical reception

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The Ottawa Journal noted that "the band has become firmly established as a funk band prone to writing songs that regularly sound the same as 'Play That Funky Music'." [3]

Track listing

  1. "Try a Piece of My Love" (James Robert Barrett, Mark Cunningham) - 4:28
  2. "Look at Her Dance" (Russ Ballard) - 4:40
  3. "Don't Wait Too Long" (Robert Parissi) - 5:50
  4. "Starlight" (Parissi) - 4:25
  5. "Hold On to Your Hiney" (Tony Joe White) - 4:15
  6. "All Night's All Right" (Dean Parks) - 3:50
  7. "Raindance" (Billy Burnette, Larry Henley) - 3:26
  8. "Take Me Back" (Mark Avsec, Parissi) - 4:10
  9. "Keep On Playin' That Funky Music" (Harrison Calloway, Clarence Jones, Parissi) - 3:55

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ "Wild Cherry Biography by Greg Prato". AllMusic. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  2. ↑ Henderson, Alex. "Wild Cherry Only the Wild Survive review". AllMusic . Rovi Corporation . Retrieved 2011-11-01.
  3. ↑ Cobb, Chris (17 May 1979). "Albums". Relax. Ottawa Journal. p. 5.
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