May 2007 Archives

It's live! Congratulations and thanks to the rest of the team: Aaron, Aaron, Andy, Chris, Dan, Danny (emeritus), Darin, Erik, Joanna, Linus, Michael, Othman, and Scott, as well as many other Googlers in supporting roles too numerous to mention.

This has been driving me crazy for almost two years. On satellite radio back in 2005 I heard the song "Do You Wanna Funk" by Patrick Cowley & Sylvester. The song was familiar; I was certain I'd heard it in a movie soundtrack, but I absolutely could not place it. And the web was no help.

This morning I heard the song again, so I tried searching again, and this time found it. According to The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the 70s in San Francisco by Joshua Gamson, as scanned and indexed by Google Book Search, the answer is... Trading Places. I think it's the scene where Billy Ray Valentine reacts to his newfound privilege and riches by throwing a party in his home.

Note that the book is copyrighted 2005, which means it might not have been in print yet when I first did my search. Thank you, Joshua Gamson! Thank you, Google Book Search!

Update: Trading Places, not Spaces! Aargh, my domesticity is showing!