Get Down Tonight

Get Down Tonight

Infobox Single
Name = Get Down Tonight
Type = Single
Artist = KC and the Sunshine Band
from Album = KC and the Sunshine Band
B-side = "You Don't Know"


Caption = French 7-Inch Single Cover
Released = 1975
Genre = Disco
Length = 3:12 (radio edit)
5:19 (album version)
Label = TK Records
Writer = Harry Wayne Casey/Richard Finch
Producer = Harry Wayne Casey/Richard Finch
Chart position = * #1 (US)
* #21 (UK)
Last single = "I'm A Pushover" (1974)
This single = "Get Down Tonight" (1975)
Next single = "Shotgun Shuffle" (1975)"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. It also reached the top of the Hot Soul Singles chart.

It 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.


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