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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 .
Album Peak chart positions ... The Best of KC and the Sunshine Band: Special Edition ... "Get Down Tonight" 1 1 11 — 44 1 — 5 — 21
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 release of the self-titled second album KC and the Sunshine Band in 1975 spawned the group's first major U.S. hit with "Get Down Tonight". [4] It topped the R&B chart in April and hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in August. [4] The group received two nominations at the 18th Annual Grammy Awards held in February 1976. [6] "
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.
Get Down Tonight: The Disco Explosion was a 2004 musical documentary special which aired on PBS.The special featured Irene Cara, KC & The Sunshine Band, Yvonne Elliman, The Hues Corporation, Peaches & Herb, Karen Lynn Gorney, A Taste of Honey, Rob Parissi of Wild Cherry, Leo Sayer, Deney Terrio, Frankie Valli, Martha Wash, Barry Williams, Norma Jean Wright and Felton Pilate.
"Get Down" is a song by Irish singer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan, from his 1973 album I'm a Writer, Not a Fighter. Released as a single, it spent two weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart in April 1973, [ 2 ] was also a number-one hit in Ireland for three weeks and was a top-ten hit in the United States and Canada.
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".