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"Get Down Tonight" is a song released in 1975 on the self-titled album by the disco group KC and the Sunshine Band. The song became widely successful, becoming the first of their five No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 .
KC and the Sunshine Band contains two of the group's biggest hits, "That's the Way (I Like It)" and "Get Down Tonight", both of which reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the R&B Singles Chart. The song "Boogie Shoes" also subsequently became a hit in early 1978 after being included on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.
The band was formed in 1973 by Harry Wayne Casey (KC) and Richard Finch.Casey was a record store employee and part-timer at TK Records in Hialeah, Florida [4] The band was originally called KC & The Sunshine Junkanoo Band because KC used studio musicians from TK and a local Junkanoo band called the Miami Junkanoo Band.
The Best of KC and the Sunshine Band: Special Edition — — — — — Rhino 1997 I'm Your Boogie Man and Other Hits — — — — — Shake, Shake, Shake and Other Hits — — — — — 1998 The Very Best Of — — — — 82 BPI: Silver [12] EMI: 1999 25th Anniversary Collection — — — — — Rhino 2001 VH1 Behind the Music ...
‘For music that was so dismissed by critics, it’s just always there.' 'My happiest place on Earth is onstage.' KC and the Sunshine Band to play Rochester concert
Richard Finch said that the song was written about a DJ at a Miami, Florida, radio station WFUN named Don Wright, who was the first to give their hit single "Get Down Tonight" airplay, followed by Robert W, Walker of Y100 [2] The song was originally titled "I'll Be a Son of a Gun" before KC changed the title to "I'm Your Boogie Man".
25th Anniversary Collection is a compilation album by KC and the Sunshine Band, released in 1999. It is the most comprehensive KC and the Sunshine Band collection to date, containing nearly every single released during the band 1970s heyday, along with a small sampling of later tracks.
Get Down Tonight; Gin and Juice; Give It Up (KC and the Sunshine Band song) I. I Get Lifted (KC and the Sunshine Band song) I'm So Crazy ('Bout You)