Get Down Tonight
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| “Get Down Tonight” | |||||
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French 7-Inch Single Cover
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| Single by KC and the Sunshine Band from the album KC and the Sunshine Band |
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| B-side | "You Don't Know" | ||||
| Released | 1975 | ||||
| Genre | Disco | ||||
| Length | 3:12 (radio edit) 5:19 (album version) |
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| Label | TK Records | ||||
| Writer(s) | Harry Wayne Casey/Richard Finch | ||||
| Producer | Harry Wayne Casey/Richard Finch | ||||
| KC and the Sunshine Band singles chronology | |||||
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"Get Down Tonight" is a song released in 1975 on the eponymous album by the disco group KC and the Sunshine Band. The song became widely successful, becoming the first of their five number-one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart; and displays some of the signature characteristics of the disco era such as a fast tempo, and repeating lyrics. The song features a distinctive introduction, in which a recorded guitar solo is rendered at double speed over a normal-speed guitar line in the background. In May 2008, Canadian radio station, 97.3 EZ Rock, got radio annoucer, Colleen Rusholme, to sing this particular song's chorus in Spanish. Although she is of German background, she managed to pull it off. They got callers to guess the song. Many people quoted that the "hum hum" she said after the chorus was the big giveaway.
| Preceded by "Fallin' in Love" by Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds |
Billboard Hot 100 number one single August 30, 1975 |
Succeeded by "Rhinestone Cowboy" by Glen Campbell |
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