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"Funkytown" Is A Song By American Disco Act Lipps Inc. From Their Debut Album Mouth To Mouth 1979 . It Was Released As The Album's Second Single In 1980. Written By Musician Composer And Record Producer Steven Greenberg And Sung By Cynthia Johnson The Song Expresses The Singer's Pining For A Metaphorical Place That Will "keep Me Movin' Keep Me Groovin' With Some Energy". Steven Wrote The Song While The Band Was Living In Minneapolis With Dreams Of Moving To New York. "Funkytown" Entered The US Billboard Hot 100 On March 29 1980 And Spent Four Weeks At Number One From May 31 To June 21 1980.
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"Funkytown" is a song by American disco act Lipps Inc. from their debut album Mouth to Mouth (1979). It was released as the album's second single in 1980.
Written by musician, composer, and record producer Steven Greenberg and sung by Cynthia Johnson, the song expresses the singer's pining for a metaphorical place that will "keep me movin', keep me groovin' with some energy". Steven wrote the song while the band was living in Minneapolis with dreams of moving to New York.
"Funkytown" entered the US Billboard Hot 100 on March 29, 1980, and spent four weeks at number one, from May 31 to June 21, 1980. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.