Trouble Funk Pump Me UP 1982

Trouble Funk is an American R B and funk band from Washington, D. C. The group helped to popularize funk and the subgenre gogo in the Washington metropolitan area. Among the band s wellknown songs are the gogo anthem Hey, Fellas. They released several studio albums including Drop the Bomb, In Times of Trouble, Live, and Trouble Over Here Trouble Over There (UK, 54), and two live albums, Trouble Funk: Straight Up GoGo Style and Saturday Night Live. In 1982, they released a single So Early in the Morning on Records, later reissued on diverse labels as Tuff City. Trouble Funk sometimes shared the stage with hardcore punk bands of the day such as Minor Threat and the Big Boys. Trouble Funk s song Pump Me Up was sampled by many other artists, for example Dimple D s onehit wonder Sucker DJ, which went to, 1 in Australia, Public Enemy s Fight The Power, Kurtis Blow s song I