Placed as a winner in five Active Industry Research Contemporary Hit Radio 'Pick the Hits' competitions from 1983 through 1987. Beeman Dissertation Award for Outstanding Research in Communications and Marketing for Higher Education Advancement and was the 2008 Leo and Margaret Goodman-Malamuth Outstanding Dissertation Award for Research in Higher Education Administration. Graduate of Marshall University, West Virginia University, Southern New Hampshire University, Kentucky Christian University and Mountain State University.ĭissertation on institutional rebranding (see ) was the 2009 international winner of the Alice L. Sister Rosetta Tharpe: His Eye Is On The SparrowĪssociate Provost and Professor of Mass Communication at Alderson Broaddus University and an adjunct faculty member at Southern New Hampshire University.Big Head Todd & The Monsters: Bittersweet.Andy Griffith: What It Was, Was Football.Brian Auger and the Oblivion Express: Straight Ahead.The Souther, Hillman, Furay Band: Heavenly Fire.Crosby, Stills, & Nash: Marrakesh Express.Two of the bands songs, Funk 49 and Walk Away, continue to be. Chuck Owston: Jesus Won't You Come By Here? James Gang is an American rock band formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1966.The significance of the name and numbers are unknown to me, but the latter was the bigger hit however, it missed the Top 40 and charted at #59, and therefore, qualifies as our bubbling under hit. “Funk #49” was the band’s second single, but do you remember their first? It was “Funk #48” from “Yer Album” in 1969. Steel guitarist Rusty Young plays on “There I Go Again.” During the heyday of the band with Joe Walsh at the helm, the band only garnered prominence in the Rust Belt. The James Gang was truly a power trio and the album rides again features only help from one musician on one song. and don’t forget no one will ever say “more cowbell,” as “Funk #49 has a hefty dose of that percussive tool courtesy of Jim Fox. There are several aspects to “Funk #49” that make it readily recognizable – the guitar work of Joe Walsh and the unison runs of Walsh’s guitar and Dale Peters’ bass. I often use the bass line as a warm-up when I rarely play that instrument, but making the transition to mandolin was a little difficult as it was a paradigm shift. Walsh would later record a 'Funk #50', which was included on his 2012 solo album Analog Man.It was the first time I tried playing the song on mandolin and the rhythm part was not difficult however, I attempted to do the bass line and that was a little more difficult. The only thing we really added was the percussion middle part, which the three of us actually played, putting some parts on top of the drums, but that's the three piece James Gang, and that's the energy and kind of the symmetry we were all about.' It was a real good example of how we put things together, bearing in mind that it was a three piece group, and I don't think that there was any overdubbing. Walsh explained the writing of the song, 'I came up with the basic guitar lick, and the words never really impressed me intellectually, but they seemed to fit somehow. The song got its title as a sequel to 'Funk #48', a song from Yer' Album, their first LP. Most of the song is a vehicle for Walsh's guitar performance. The lyrics focus on a wild girlfriend the singer cannot tame. Much of the song is instrumental, drawing from Joe Walsh's guitar, Dale Peters' bass work, and Jim Fox's drumming. 'Funk #49' is 3:54 in length, though it only has two verses. Funk 49 - The James Gang LyricistJames Fox, Dale Peters, Joseph Fidler Walsh I sleep all day, out all night I know where youre goin I dont think. The song was a moderate success upon release, peaking at #59 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song featured as the first single off the group's second studio album James Gang Rides Again (1970). 'Funk #49' is a song written by Joe Walsh, Jim Fox, and Dale Peters, and recorded by American hard rock band The James Gang.

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