Funky Kings

Using the California country-rock, singer-songwriter sound from the Eagles and Jackson Browne a hot commodity in the mid-’70s, the theory for the Funky Kings appeared to make sense. Created in 1976 for Clive Davis’ Arista Information, Funky Kings was an unusual teaming of three singer-songwriters — Jack port Tempchin (“Relaxing Easy Sense”, “Currently Eliminated”), Jules Shear, and Richard Stekol — having a funk tempo section, bassist Expenses Bodine and drummer Frank Cotinola, and metal guitarist Greg Leisz. Although Davis experienced high hopes that this Kings would end up being the following Eagles, they received small see, and, when Arista offered liberating another record, disbanded after one recording. The first one through the record, Tempchin’s “Gradual Dancing,” do receive minimal airplay during its discharge, but didn’t make any waves until getting included in Johnny Streams in 1977, when it peaked at amount ten. Tempchin continued to record one LP for Arista aswell as collaborating with previous Eagle Glenn Frey on materials for Frey’s single efforts. Shear shaped the critically acclaimed Jules as well as the Polar Bears in 1978 before launching several extremely lauded, if not really commercially effective, albums by himself. His songs have already been documented by artists such as for example Roger McGuinn, Tommy Conwell and Iain Matthews and reached the graphs because of renditions with the Bangles and Cyndi Lauper. He also offered as web host of MTV’s Unplugged series. Stekol, who has already established his songs completed by performers including Kim Carnes and Iain Matthews, provides continuing to record and tour with Shear sometimes.