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Hand Clapping Songs: Listen tot 10 Soul and funks songs that incorporate hand clapping. A Hand clap is mother nature’s simplest percussion instrument. So clap your hands!

Good Ol' Funky Music - Sydney Joe Qualls (So Sexy, 1970)

Hey Ruby (Shut Your Mouth) - Ruby And The Party Gang (Hey Ruby (Shut Your Mouth) / Hey Ruby (Shut Your Mouth), 1971)

I Got A Home - The Bonds Brothers (I Got A Home  / I'm Gonna Fly Away, 197?)

I Don't Want No Mama's Boy - Erma Franklin (I Don't Want No Mama's Boy / Have You Ever Had The Blues?, 1963)

If I Had a Hammer - The Grace Gospel Singers (Hello Gloryland, 1968)

Let’s Work Together - Wilbert Harrison ‎(Let’s Work Together, 1969)

Mogambo - Gill and Morgan ‎(Mogambo / Mama Please, 1976) 

New Barren Ground - The Samaritan of Jersey City, N J (Jesus, I Love You New Barren Ground, 197?)

That Old Time Way - The Golden Gospels ‎(That Old Time Way / New Home, 197?)

What's Good For You (Don't Have To Be Good To You) - Harvey Scales ‎(I Wanna Do It / What's Good For You (Don't Have To Be Good To You), 1972)

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C’est un miracle! Not one, oh no, but three versions of the great Eric Carmen & Raspberries delivering live versions of their immortal Go All The Way popped up from the ether. The first is, in my opinion, their finest hour. Performed on October 6, 1974, for the Don Kirshner show, Carmen takes a few liberties with the vocal that I’d not previously encountered, which work to perfection. Great vocalists do this sort of thing; Mr. Carmen certainly qualifies. A great performance, and video, all the way round.

Also, a fabulously gritty live performance, from somewhere.

From 1973, and Mr. Kirshner is the éminence grise behind another memorable Raspberries live performance. This rendition is rather transcendent as well. Eric Carmen takes the opportunity to scoff openly at sanctions prohibiting hand-clapping. So cavalier, even insouciant.

The Winning Ways of Eric Carmen on full display.

The best Soul and funks songs that incorporate hand clapping. A Hand clap is mother nature’s simplest percussion instrument. So clap your hands!

Hand Clapping Songs

African Rhythms - Oneness Of Juju (African Rhythms, 1975)

Baby, Baby, Wo Ist Unsere Liebe (Where Did Our Love Go) - The Supremes (Moonlight And Kisses / Baby, Baby, Wo Ist Unsere Liebe (Where Did Our Love Go), 1965)

Boogaloo Mardi Gras Pt 1 - Bobby Williams Group (Boogaloo Mardi Gras Pt 1 /- Boogaloo Mardi Gras Pt 2, 1968) 

Clap Your Hands - Tito Chicoma y su Orquesta (Boogaloo, 1967

Crying Time - Brenda Holloway (Crying Time / You're Walking Out With My Heart, 196?)

Get Up Offa That Thing - James Brown (Get Up Offa That Thing / Release The Pressure, 1976)

Free At Last (Great Day A-Comin) - James Barnes and The Agents (Free At Last (Great Day A-Comin) /Free At Last (Instrumental), 1968)

Glory Hallelujah - St. Louis Melody Airs (Never Turn Back / Glory Hallelujah, 1970)

Going Over Yonder  - Rev. J.W. Neely And Family (Going Over Yonder / I'll Fly Away, 197?) 

Heaven - Haynes Miracle Temple Choir (Satisfied Soul, 1969)

Little Red Corvette - Prince (1999, 1982)

Living For The City - Stevie Wonder (Innervisions, 1973)

Soul Sister - Four Gents (I’ve Been Trying / Soul Sister, 1966)

Thank God For Peace - Wayne Spence & Smiling Faces (Thank God For Peace / Love's Stronger Than Hate, 1973)

Trouble In My Way - Myrna Summers and Refreshing Spring (A Joyful Noise, 1974)

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The best Soul and funks songs that incorporate hand clapping. A Hand clap is mother nature’s simplest percussion instrument. So clap your hands!

Hand Clapping Songs

The Breaks - Kurtis Blow (Kurtis Blow, 1980)

Buddy Buddy Billy Joe - Tamata ‎(Buddy Buddy Billy Joe / Charmain, 196?) 

Clap Your Hands - The Ambertones (Clap Your Hands / Cruise, 1965)

Clap Your Hands - Reginald Milton and The Soul Jets ‎(Clap Your Hands / Jickle Jeek Beat, 1972)

Clap Your Hands - Tito Chicoma y su Orquesta (Boogaloo, 1967)

Fingertips 2 -  Little Stevie Wonder (Fingertips, 1963)

Give Up The Funk (Let’s Dance) - B.T. Express (1980, 1980)

God Is Alright - Songs Of Love Of Martinez, Ga. ‎(God Is Alright / Lord Guide My Life, 197?)

I’m So Happy - Prince Phillip Mitchell (Top Of The Line, 1979)

Imitations - The Johnson Family Gospel Singers (Imitations / Heaven Is Here, 1984)

Hiko Iko - Little Francisco Greaves (Mooving - Grooving / Hiko Iko, 1969) 

In the Navy - Village People (Go West, 1979)

In The Wash - Millie Jackson ‎(I Got To Try It One Time, 1974)

Liberation - The Afro Blues Quintet Plus One ‎(Introducing The Afro Blues Quintet Plus One, 1965) 

Rap-O Clap-O - Joe Bataan ‎(Mestizo, 1980)

Sinnerman - Nina Simone (Pastel Blues, 1965)

The Soul Clap - The O'Kaysions ‎(Girl Watcher, 1968)

Soul Clappin' - Pretty Purdie (Blow Your Lid (But Watch Your Cool) / Soul Clappin', 1968)

Soul Clappin' - Sly and The Family Stone ‎(Dance To The Music, 1968)

Spreadin' Honey - The Watts 103rd St Rhythm (Spreadin' Honey / Charley, 1966)

We Love the Policeman - Hearts of Soul and Shampoo (We Love the Policeman, 1974) 

Working On The Building - The James Herndon Singers (Working On The Building / One Day, 1973)

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This life-improving performance by Herman’s Hermits, in addition to its intrinsic Uplift Program-inducing sheer pop wonderment, packs more hand-clapping---and by quite a great margin, at that---into 2 minutes, 27 seconds, or any other length of time, than any other such endeavor undertaken in human history. There is a **lot** of clapping of the hands, by vocalist Peter Noone, by the audience, by the backup singers, by anyone or anything that moves. I am very much in favor. 1966 begat this extremely winning live rendition of their hit, I’m Into Something Good. Noone turned 19 on 5 Nov. And. There’s the clapping.

A Shindig production, circa 1/13/1965, of another fine performance of Something Good by Noone, at this time a shambling, Methusalean figure at 17, and the lads. To be sure, any live performance that one comes across featuring this band, is gold. And, lo & behold, this more than qualifies. A Mood Elevator of the most efficacious variety, and a card-carrying Uplift Program member (yes, videos can, and do, carry cards)(and can qualify for certain memberships) like its preceding brethren (yes, “brethren”; maybe said predecessor contains vast multitudes, in which case {it *is* the case}, a collective noun is called for, y’see), I, for one, flipped upon initial and subsequent viewing. True, there’s not as much hand-clapping, but still it abounds---just not at quite the preposterous degree of the 1966 version. And that’s OK.