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Josie Records was a subsidiary of Jubilee Records in New York City that was active from 1954 to 1971. The label's best selling bands were The Cadillacs (" Speedoo "), Bobby Freeman [ 1 ] and the Meters .
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 ...
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.
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.'
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.
Jerome Smith (June 18, 1953 – July 28, 2000) was a guitarist at TK Records in Miami, Florida, who was a member of KC and the Sunshine Band from their inception in 1973 until his death in 2000. His rhythm guitar playing was a key part of the band's propulsive disco sound, first gaining international attention on George McCrae's hit recording ...
Originally opening as a record store selling a variety of music genres, the business flourished in the late 1990s and early 2000s by capitalizing on the talent of Kansas City hip-hop artists whose ...