I Can Smell That Funky Music

"I Can Smell That Funky Music"
Single by Eric Mercury
from the album Funky Sounds Nurtured in the Fertile Soil of Memphis That Smell of Rock
B-side"Listen With Your Eyes"
Released1971
Genresoul
Length
  • 3:00
LabelEnterprise ENA-9041
Songwriter(s)Rice, Floyd, Cropper
Producer(s)Steve Cropper
Eric Mercury singles chronology
"Everybody Has The Right To Love"
(1970)
"I Can Smell That Funky Music"
(1971)
"What's Usual Seems Natr'l"
(1972)

"I Can Smell That Funky Music" was a hit in 1972 for soul singer Eric Mercury. This was the first time he had a single of his own in the charts. Recorded and produced in the United States, the success of the single was in Canada where Mercury was originally from.