C+C Music Factory

Featuring: Zelma Davis Martha Wash

Songwriter: David Cole Robert Clivillés Duran Ramos

Producer: Clivillés & Cole

One, two, ready, go
One, two, ready, go
Yeah! yeah! yeah! come on
Party time
Come on

Ladies, let your body flow
Ladies, let your body flow
Ladies, let your body flow
Ladies, let your body flow

[Chorus:]
Do you wanna, do you wanna get funky?
Do you wanna get funky with me?
Do you wanna, do you wanna get funky?
Do you wanna get funky with me?
Do you wanna, do you wanna get funky?
Do you wanna get funky with me?
Do you wanna, do you wanna get funky?
Do you wanna get funky with me?

[Verse 1: Zelma Davis]
Everybody gather round now
Were just chillin', groovin to the funky sound
We dont need no special occasion
So come along, its a celebration
Funky (a yes yes, y'all, yes yes, y'all)
So funky, check it out, check it, check this out

[Rap:]
I gots (The power)
To freak ya more than an (hour)
With so much mad funk I need (A shower)
In the pooper scooper master plan
'Cause I'm the super duper trooperman
Yeah, mythical, get physical, so here we go
Give us a flavour built down til ya embryo
My style, rowdy and wild
Swig it up, hit it up, live it up, yeah

[Verse 2: Martha Wash]
Hey you people over there
Let me see you throw your hands up in the air
It's a funky groove made to make you move
(Well alright)
So let the party people say

[Chorus]

[Rap:]
Boh, I think I gots the fever
I'm heated
Pumpin' up the pumpin up the meter
Label me a ringleader, mad party pleader
Makees with a store
A lead up ta lead up ta lead up
Spot, hey, can you dig it?
I come alive, darling, give me what you got
Becka, rumpshteckup
Pump your fists up
Yo check this out I don't but cheques or bust slipper

[Chant:]
To the morning light
Gonna make you feel all right
Pump it up all night
Body rock, show me what you got
Let Rob bring back the boom spot

There is a dance over there, and dance over here
Everybody combine in a fabulous wear
There is swingin' an' winin', champagne an' dinin'
Preety people screamin' and jostlin'
See an' see man a girl man chillin'
Let's get funky, all right to the rythm
All through da job sites is see Job skatin'
Ladies lend your bodies, don't slow non stoppin'

Ladies, let your body flow
Ladies, let your body flow
Ladies, let your body flow
Ladies, let your body flow

[Chorus]

[Vamp: Zelma & Martha]
Do you wanna, do you need?
Everybody gather round now
Let the funk in with C&C
Do you wanna, do you need?
Everybody gather round now
Let the funk in with C&C

Do you wanna get funky?
Do you wanna get funky?

David Cole and Robert Civilles met while both working at a New York underground club. Before forming C & C Music Factory, they were primarily remixers, co-writers, producers and artist managers – having worked with Mariah Carey, Chaka Khan, Fleetwood Mac, Grace Jones, Seduction and others.

Cole & Civilles decided to launch their own music project with an ever-changing cast of vocalists. When an artist they were managing turned down the song “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)”, the duo decided to use it as their first single. They recruited a janitor from Quad Recording Studio who was learning to become an assistant engineer named Freedom Williams to perform the raps, and hired ex-Weather Girls singer Martha Wash for the female vocals – but credited them to Zelma Davis. Davis also appeared in the song’s video. Wash later sued for being uncredited in the song and its video.

The song became an international smash, reaching the top 5 in nine countries (taking the top position in five of them). Their debut album was released a month after the single and it reached #2 in the US, #8 in the UK and the top 30 in six other countries.

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