KC & The Sunshine Band (CD)

The quintessential 1970s disco group, hailing from the funkiest disco town (Miami), KC & the Sunshine Band had three important AM radio hits that practically define the era: "Get Down Tonight," "That's the Way (I Like It)," and "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty." The band revolved around the songwriting nucleus of Harry Wayne Casey (aka singer "KC") and Richard Finch, who went on to pen four more charting hits for the band. In 1980, KC had a hit with Teri DeSario on a mellow remake of "Yes, I'm Ready," but, as if on cue, the fairy tale was over when the disco decade officially ended. The songwriters parted ways, and although KC would make a few attempts at a chart comeback, the band has been relegated mostly to nostalgia.

• Category:  Music  »  R&B  »  Disco
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: April 25, 2006
• Label: Collectors' Choice
• UPC: 617742063721
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106454670
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #33964 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #1791 in R&B (See Top 100 R&B Bestsellers)
• #36 in Disco (See Top 100 Disco Bestsellers)

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KC & The Sunshine Band: Harry Wayne "KC" Casey (vocals, keyboards); Jerome Smith (guitar); Richard Finch (bass, drums); Robert "Shotgun" Johnson (drums).

Additional personnel: Beverly Champion Foster, Jeanette Williams, Margaret Reynolds, Debra Carter (vocals); Mike Lewis (tenor saxophone); Whit Sidener (baritone saxophone); Kenny Faulk, Vinnie Tanno (trumpet); Fermin Goytisolo (percussion).

Producers: H.W. Casey, Richard Finch, Steve Alaimo.

Reissue producers: David McLees, Bob Fisher.

Includes liner notes by Amy Linden.

While Kool & The Gang (not to mention James Brown) brought streamlined, commercial funk to the airwaves first, it was this integrated party band from Miami that first surpassed the Gang in danceability and sheer musical artistry. One can hear in Harry Wayne Casey's pungent vocals the authentic white soul of Alex Chilton's Box Tops (Chilton eventually covered KC's "Boogie Shoes") even as his and bassist Richard Finch's regional grooves borrowed the Stax trademark off-rhythms of Booker T & The MGs, another successful model of Southern musical integration. Whatever the case for the Sunshine Band's regional roots, nothing can beat the pure "party's-here" excitement of the bouncing clavinet figures leading into "Get Down Tonight" or the dervish-like minor-mode incantations of "That's the Way I Like It." An added bonus on this extended version of the group's debut album--besides '80s remixes of the two big hits--is the addition of "I'm a Pushover," a high-energy mover that rivals Bobby Byrd and JB himself for exhilarating dance floor power.

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