Greatest Hits (KC and the Sunshine Band album)
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Greatest Hits was the first official compilation album by KC and the Sunshine Band
KC and the Sunshine Band
KC and the Sunshine Band is an American musical group. Founded in 1973 in Miami, Florida, their style has included funk, R&B, and disco. Their most well known songs include the disco hits "That's the Way ", " Shake Your Booty", "I'm Your Boogie Man", "Keep It Comin' Love", "Get Down Tonight", "Give...

, released in 1980. The album contained two newly recorded tracks, "All I Want" and "Let's Go Rock and Roll". "Let's Go Rock and Roll" was released as a moderately successful single to promote the compilation.

Track listing

  1. "Sound Your Funky Horn" – 2:59
  2. "Queen Of Clubs" – 3:17
  3. "Get Down Tonight
    Get Down Tonight
    "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...

    " – 5:15
  4. "Boogie Shoes
    Boogie Shoes
    "Boogie Shoes" is a popular song released in 1975 on the self-titled album KC and the Sunshine Band by the disco group KC and the Sunshine Band. The song became a hit when it appeared on the Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack in 1977. The song is still heard on radio stations today as a disco-era staple...

    " – 2:16
  5. "That's the Way (I Like It)
    That's the Way (I Like It)
    "That's the Way " is a song written by H.W. Casey and Richard Finch, and recorded and released in 1975 by KC and the Sunshine Band for their eponymous second album...

    " – 5:06
  6. "Shake Your Booty
    (Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty
    " Shake Your Booty" is a song recorded and released in 1976 by KC and the Sunshine Band for the album Part 3. The song became their third number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as their third number-one on the soul singles chart. The song was met with a degree of controversy, since the...

    " – 3:04
  7. "I'm Your Boogie Man
    I'm Your Boogie Man
    "I'm Your Boogie Man" is a popular song by KC and the Sunshine Band from their 1976 album Part 3. Richard Finch told Songfacts that this was written about a DJ at a Miami, Florida radio station called Robert W. Walker, who was the first to give their hit single "Get Down Tonight" airplay. In 1977...

    " – 4:01
  8. "Keep It Comin' Love
    Keep It Comin' Love
    "Keep It Comin' Love" is a 1977 disco song recorded by KC and the Sunshine Band. It appeared on their 1977 album Part 3. The song, like its predecessor "That's the Way ", became widely successful due to its sexual double entendres...

    " – 4:26
  9. "Please Don't Go" – 3:43
  10. "Let's Go Rock and Roll" – 3:36
  11. "All I Want" – 4:20

Personnel

  • Harry Wayne Casey
    Harry Wayne Casey
    Harry Wayne "K.C." Casey is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and producer. He is most famous for his group, KC and the Sunshine Band, and as a producer of several hits for other artists.-Early years:...

     – keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

    , vocal
  • Jerome Smith – guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

  • Richard Finch
    Richard Finch (musician)
    Richard Finch , is an American composer, producer, engineer, and song arranger. He is best known as the co-founder, producer and former bass player of KC and the Sunshine Band...

     – bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    , drum
    Drum
    The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...

    , percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

  • Robert Johnson – drum
  • Fermin Goytisolo – percussion
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