the single's A-side. Following the success of "Ice Ice Baby", "Play That Funky Music" was reissued as its own single (with new lyrics and remixed drums), and peaked at No. 4 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and No. 10 in the UK. The song's accompanying music video received heavy rotation on MTV Europe. Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts Other cover versions In 1988, the band Roxanne reached No. 63 on the Billboard Hot 100 with a cover version. English rock band Thunder reached No. 39 in the UK singles chart in 1998 with a cover, taken from their album Giving the Game Away. Usage in other media The song appears on the opening show Ces gars-là, a French-language Canadian show on V Télé featuring the stand-up comic Sugar Sammy and Simon-Olivier Fecteau. In the Season Eight episode of The Big Bang Theory, "The Skywalker Intrusion", Sheldon Cooper says to Leonard Hofstadter "Play that funky music, white boy" when Leonard turns on the car radio, though Sheldon is unfamiliar with the cultural reference. When Leonard plays the song for him, Sheldon analyzes the song, concluding that the lyrics present a musical example of Russell's paradox. See also List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1976 List of Cash Box Top 100 number-one singles of 1976 List of number-one R&B singles of 1976 (U.S.) List of 1970s one-hit wonders in the United States References External links Lyrics of this song 1976 singles 1976 songs 1990 debut singles Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles Cashbox number-one singles Epic Records singles SBK Records singles Songs about music Wild Cherry (band) songs Vanilla Ice songs