They bridged pop, disco, funk, and R&B on their era-defining, celebratory anthems which also included "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty," "I'm Your Boogie Man," and the sleek "Keep It Comin' Love" on 1976's Part III and the atypical ballad "Please Don't Go" on 1979's Do You Wanna Go Party. Now, Cherry Red's Robinsongs imprint has celebrated the group's 50th anniversary with a new 3-CD anthology, The Ultimate Collection.Īfter a low-key album debut in 1974 with Do It Good, singer/keyboardist Harry Wayne Casey (KC), bassist/percussionist Richard Finch, and their big band of musicians (recruited from the Miami studio scene) reinvented their group with a self-titled album in 1975 that asked listeners to "Get Down Tonight" in their "Boogie Shoes." That was clearly the way listeners liked it (uh huh, uh huh), and with three major hits - all on the original album's Side One - KC and The Sunshine Band were off and running. 2s as well as six charting LPs including their self-titled 1975 album which went top ten across the globe. The joyful group founded in the Sunshine State of Florida has racked up five U.S. With KC and The Sunshine Band, the numbers speak for themselves.
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