Afternoon Delight (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Afternoon Delight


Caption = "Afternoon Delight" by Starland Vocal Band
Artist = Starland Vocal Band
from Album = Starland Vocal Band
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Released = 1976
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Length = 3:16
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Writer = Bill Danoff
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Audio file = Afternoon Delight by The Starland Vocal Band.ogg

"Afternoon Delight" is a 1976 song by the Starland Vocal Band, written by Bill Danoff, featuring close harmony and sexually suggestive lyrics. It became a number-one U.S. Billboard Hot 100 single on July 10, 1976.

Concurrent to the Starland Vocal Band's version, country singer Johnny Carver had a Top 10 version of his own on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles chart.

In the 1990s and 2000s, "Afternoon Delight" was featured in several film and television shows, albeit often in an ironic sense, such as "Good Will Hunting", "PCU", "Boogie Nights", "Starsky & Hutch", "Arrested Development", "The Simpsons" (The Fat and the Furriest), "Rules of Engagement", "Complete Savages", "South Park" and "", "Sleep Easy, Hutch Rimes". In 1983, The Circle Jerks also covered this song as one of the six cover versions on "Golden Shower of Hits (Jerks on 45)", which appears on their third album with the same title.

On the USA Network show "Psych", the episode "Shawn Vs. The Red Phantom", Shawn Spencer mentions that "once he [ George Takei ] starts singing "Afternoon Delight", he just goes to another place."

The name for the song comes from the name of a special menu of the same name at Clyde's restaurant in Georgetown. [ [http://www.billdanoff.com/starlandvocalband.htm#Afternoon%20Delight Starland Vocal Band ] ]

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External links

* [http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=59 Trivia about the song from SongFacts.com]
* [http://www.billdanoff.com/presskit.htm#Articles Author of the song Bill Danoff reflects on its use in pop culture]