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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.
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.'
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.
"That's the Way (I Like It)" is a song by American disco and funk band KC and the Sunshine Band from their self-titled second studio album (1975). The single became the band's second No. 1 hit in the Billboard Hot 100, and it is one of the few chart-toppers in history to hit No. 1 on more than one occasion during a one-month period, as it did between November and December 1975.
Do You Wanna Go Party is the sixth studio album by the funk and disco group KC and the Sunshine Band. The album was produced by Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch and was released in June 1979 on the TK label.
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 ...