Give It Up (KC song)

Give It Up (KC song)

Infobox Single
Name = Give It Up


Artist = KC and the Sunshine Band
from Album = All in a Night's Work and KC Ten
Genre = Disco
Released = 1983
Writer = Harry Wayne Casey
Producer = KC and the Sunshine Band
Chart position = * #1 (UK Singles Chart)
Last single = "Don't Run (Come Back To Me)" (1982)
This single = "Give It Up" (1983)
Next single = "Are You Ready?" (1984)
"Give It Up" was a UK number one single for three weeks in August 1983 for KC & The Sunshine Band, going on to become the 18th best-selling single of the year there.

It was the last and most successful of his ten UK hits, and was somewhat of a comeback hit in the US. Following the backlash against many disco artists on the charts in the early 1980s, the song peaked all the way up to #18 in the US in January 1984.

In recent years, the song has been turned into a football chant in England, adapting the lyrics to either hail a player (We've got Tommy Spurr, Tommy Spurr, We've got Tommy Spurr) or give an indication to their fate (either "....staying up" or "....going up").

Cover versions

The song was covered by Captain Jack in 2003 on their album Party Warriors and was also covered by Quebecois singer Jacynthe

Aunt Valerie produced the hit in the UK, and in 1994 it was remixed by Danish dance group Cut 'N' Move and it went to number one on the Australian ARIA Chart.


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