Peter Brown - Do You Wanna Get Funky With Me/Burning Love Breakdown (T.K. Records 1977)

"Do You Wanna Get Funky with Me"/"Burning Love Breakdown" is the title of a 1977 single recorded by Peter Brown. Record sales of the 12” version of "Do Ya Wanna Get Funky With Me" had reached the million dollar mark making it the first gold 12” single in history. Before too long the album went gold as well.

Peter Brown is an American artist, songwriter and record producer. Brown became serious about music in his teens and chose to learn the drums. His greatest inspirations in music at the time were Santana, Earth Wind and Fire and Chicago. He later became proficient playing timbales, conga drums, and a large number of other percussion instruments. Brown said that "As a teenager I was in many different “garage” bands and continued to write and record different musical pieces heavily based on percussion."

Keyboards came later and Brown was one of the pioneer users of the musical synthesizer. For a time he was spokesman for the ARP Synthesizer company, since he used their products almost exclusively in performances and recordings. He has also been credited as being one of the founders of “House Music” in the 1970s.

Do You Wanna Get Funky With Me was sampled by Ice Cube on his song "Look Who's Burnin'".

The lady smiled at me
When she asked about the
Possibility that we might
Spend some time alone

And, oh, the thoughts
That filled my head
When she looked in my eyes
And slowly said

Do you wanna get funky with me
Do you wanna, whoa

The idle mind is a
Playground for the devil
Do you wanna get funky with me
Do you wanna

(Do you wanna get funky) 6x

The way she spoke to me
Told me I had the opportunity
To see how funky she could be

And when I looked into her eyes
The fire they held made me realize
The flame was burning just for me

The lady tempted me
I closed my eyes
It was plain to see
She was the devil in disguise

And, oh, the message she'd relay
When she would take my hand and say
Do you wanna get funky with me
Do you wanna

The idle mind is a
Playground for the devil
Do you wanna get funky with me
Do you wanna

(I wanna set you on fire
Cause it's hot
Cause it's hot) 5x

(It's so hot
I'm burning up)...

Oh, no, no, no
(I wanna set you on fire
Cause it's hot
Cause it's hot
Cause it's hot)

I felt the heat within
The lust of love
And the urge to sin
I felt her reaching for my soul

And then I knew I had no choice
But to heed the command
Of the devil's voice

Do you wanna get funky with me
Do you wanna, do you wanna
Do you wanna

The idle mind is a
Playground for the devil
Do you wanna get funky with me
Do you wanna get funky
Do you wanna get funky with me
Do you wanna

The idle mind is a
Playground for the devil

Do you wanna get funky with me
Do you wanna
Do you wanna get funky with me