Ram Jam - FTW. Did you know that the lyrics for that are based on an old black prison song? Black Betty was a whip and Bam-ba-lam was the noise it made. I found the lyrics to the folk song in an old folk song collection from the 1930's and that is what they claimed the origin was.
Right now, Mumford & Sons "White blank page"
No I didn't know that but that's a cool story though. It's just one of those great songs I listened to back in the late 70's.
These 2 don't like being embedded so here are their understudies.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/ErMWX--UJZ4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOajaNUx2Lo&feature=BFa&list=PL9FE34FD2FFCEA8F1&lf=plpp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXqEZfOHjh8&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
Shine on you crazy diamond
The home of aviation is also where funk was founded . Go Bootsy
Neil Young - My my, hey hey
http://www.youtube.com/embed/WDzpD_p1A8w