Remember Wild Cherry? Vanilla Ice before Vanilla Ice. And a group.

Oh, and they never tried to steal a David Bowie or Queen song and claim it was original.

In fact, Vanilla Ice’s first single was a cover of Wild Cherry’s only Top 40 hit. And, true to form, Vanilla Ice didn’t credit the songwriter. This wasn’t some bass line where he added an extra note and claimed as his, this was the full song. I just don’t know about some people.

But I do know that in 1976, this song was huge.

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