Jimmy Fallon & Pharrell Williams Bring the Funk to the “Tonight Show”

Pharrell Williams is a talented song writer, producer and performer, and he owes it all to a little-known R&B duo from the '80s.

The “Voice” coach stopped by “The Tonight Show” Wednesday and chatted with Jimmy Fallon about the artists he is currently working with, the philanthropies he's supporting and Blake Shelton’s “Voice” winning streak.

“It’s amazing what a country accent can do,” Williams quipped.

But this season Pharrell has one particular singer, 15-year-old Sawyer Fredricks, who Fallon predicts is going to “win it all.”

“When he sang I was expecting to see a 60-year-old black man,” Pharrell said of the soulful crooner.

The “Happy” singer also revealed that he was a huge fan of the “American Power Hour,” an NBC show that aired in the eighties. One particular R&B group that never gained the popularity Williams felt they deserved, Afro & Deziak, made regular appearances on the music show.

“They were the best,” Fallon said. “They use to sing all those crazy love songs.”

“I use to have all their posters on my wall,” Williams revealed.

As it turned out Fallon found some old VHS tapes of the duo performing — and strangely enough, they eerily resembled the musician and host.

Pharrell, donning a shiny magenta jacket and Afro, and Fallon, in a sparkly emerald penguin blazer and mustache, brought the funk to the “Tonight Show.”
 
The pair performed a medley of hits as the fictional '80s R&B group, including “Girl I’m Gonna Get You in the Mood,” “Girl, I wanna Give You What I Got” and “Girl.”

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