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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 .
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.
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 .
‘For music that was so dismissed by critics, it’s just always there.'
Harry Wayne Casey (born January 31, 1951), better known by his stage name KC, is an American record producer, musician, and songwriter. He is best known for his band, KC and the Sunshine Band , with co-founder Richard Finch.
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".
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Get Down Live! is the first live album by KC and the Sunshine Band, released in 1995. It is a compilation of several shows that were recorded at/in Fountain Blue, Miami Beach, New Year's Eve '93/'94, Houston, Texas '94, Australia '94, Peru, South America '94, New York '94, Madison Square Garden, Atlanta, GA, '94.