Con Funk Shun may not be exactly like the swallows at Capistrano and appear once every year. Closer to a blue moon, which occurs every two or three years. Fact is, not even founder Michael Cooper ...

Con Funk Shun formed in Vallejo and released several popular albums through the 1970s, including “Loveshine,” “Candy” and “Spirit of Love.” The band’s biggest hit is the catchy “Ffun,” off the 1977 ...

The seven men are handsome and gloriously Afro’d, decked out in suits sharp enough to slice a ham. They look like businessmen, not funkateers, posing in front of a huge safe presumably inside a bank.