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 go-go in the Washington metropolitan area. Among the band’s well-known songs are the go-go 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 Go-Go 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 one-hit wonder “Sucker DJ,“ which went to #1 in Australia, Public Enemy’s Fight The Power, Kurtis Blow’s song I