Gotta tell ya. I`m a rocker and have been one my entire life. I just remember all of us despising disco and this type of music when I was a kid. I mean hated it! Looking back, when I saw a TV special on this guy, around 20 years later. My appreciation for this cat grew Immensely. Also that he was probably the only guy that had a full band with real musicians backing him, no drum machines either! I really dig his unique style and his music just wants to make you wanna get up and dance. KC, you`re alright with me brother! Every song I`ve ever heard from you is very compelling!
I agree, but I'm also compelled to point out that KC and the Sunshine Band's first big hit "Rock Me Baby" (sung by George McCrae) actually featured digital drums. It sounded great, so I'm not knocking it. The bass player, Rick Finch, was the musical brains behind it. He was content to be the musical mastermind behind the scenes and doesn't get the credit he deserves these days. Apparently, he also got screwed out of half his deserved songwriting royalties owing to a strange contract he supposedly agreed to back in the early 80s that gave KC a hundred percent of the royalties.
@@tekharthazenyatta2310 I completely agree with everything you said, except for the last part. I have seen from DIFFERENT sources, in different places, that the songs were basically written by KC with bits such as song titles randomly contributed by Rick Finch. Rick was "genius" when it came to producing and arranging, and was VERY instrumental in creating the sound of their songs. Realizing the importance of Rick's contributions and knowing song writers got the best deal in royalties, KC wanted both of them to be listed as song writing collaborators. (This evened out the "distribution curve" of the music industry and was overall more "fair" to Rick.) Aside from this info. being dispelled by TK employees who were there during that time, you have to look at how human nature functions. Musicians think of their songs as creative art, and cherish them as such. I don't believe KC was a big enough a**hole to "steal" from another artist he had worked SO closely with, I think he had more respect than that. As musicians tend to be possessive of their song writing creations, I don't believe Rick would have just given them away for a "pittance". Is an artist going to just "sign away" something they TRULY created?......GET REAL, I DON'T think so. He was willing to sign away "song writing" rights because he WASN'T the writer. They BOTH had attorneys at the time, and Rick did NOT have to sign if he really didn't want to. It was a straight forward legal agreement which HAS stood up to time and legal challenges. KC went "back" on his plan to reward Rick, and Rick went "back" on his public acknowledgement of KC as the song-writer. It looks like something VERY bad went down between the two of them, ONLY those two know what it was. Whether or not Rick was TRULY content about just "being behind the scenes" is something ONLY he truly knows. I think that the fact that the "attention" (at least from the public) pretty much ALL went to KC was behind the huge rift that occurred between them. All that being said, it needs to be acknowledged that Rick has NOT received anywhere near the credit he DESERVES!
@@minermike61 LOL I can think of a number of vids 70s, 80s where guys were coked to the gills. WOnder about the silent generation who were around when Coca Cola was green and actualy had cocaine in it. Kid have ADD, no problem pick up a 6 pack for Jr!
I am definitely a 70's person. I graduated high school in 76' and university in 80', so I was able to attend school through this entire period. It was a great time and KC and the Sunshine Band's music was always playing somewhere. I love the horn section and the fact that these dudes played their own instruments. I also love that the band was multicultural and they could just get down, play and dance. The 70's were plain fun.
@@vornachname8064 In my day everyone graduated in 4 years. That was the norm - I don't know what the norm is today as I don't have children and don't know anyone that young anymore.
I died in the 70s; literally for 9.3 minutes. I had overdosed on this super pure cocaine and flatlined. This was in 1973. Guess what? I never touched that crap again! I prefer LIFE😊
How I'd love to stay the age I am now & go back to those times!! I loved the 70's & 80's!! I'm a child of the 70's & a teen of the 80's & always will be!
Me too )': I'm 22 and since 6yo I wished to be a 60's teen and my age in the 70's. If anybody ever heard anything about a time machine please contract me here!!!!
QUE RECUERD0S!!!! GRACIAS MI HARRY!!!! POR TUS CANCIONES POR TU VOZ POR TU GENTE!!!!!! TAN GUAPO!!! GRACIAS A DIOS DISFRUTE TODA ESTA ÉPOCA ME REÍ Y BAILÉ TODOS TUS ÉXITOS!!! SIEMPRE SIEMPRE EN MI REPERTORIO EN MI CORAZÓN. .. HOY AGOSTO 2020!!! EN PLENA CUARENTENA PERO DE ESTA SALDREMOS ADELANTÉ!!!!! QYE DIOS NOS PROTEJA CON SU INFINITA MISERICORDIA DESDE IQUIQUE CHILE YO SOY MÚSICA. .❤️
As a teenager listening to this song , I'm reminded of SK. (It was High School, were both young, and still it felt like this song was genuinely about us).
This brother had a soul brothers spirit on him . Man I was raise up hearing this awesome 😎 songs in my lad times and use to go to disco nights on my neighbor hood down south wow ! Good music nothing like 70s vatos ..
This dude and his band are the real deal. A whole, complete band, complete with a brass section. No autotune. No sampling. Just original, funky music that you can feel in your bones, and makes you want to groove! And maybe go make some sweet love afterward!
I especially love watching those men dancing as their are playing,,my special of this video,,is when KC goes out in the audience and gives the women a flower,,Yeah I saw Dolly Parton in the audience,,what a gentleman
Saw KC & Sunshine Band at Disney World Valentines Night 1979. There were different bands in each land. KC played in front of the Castle. Kool & The Gang played in TomorrowLand. Jan & Dean played ? I can't remember the rest.
Man I wish I were a kid again and be me. I used to to get beat up all the time because of my music taste, I'd do it all again just to relive my back in the day jams.
Listen to that intro!! Always thought it was an electric piano...man can jam! Was 8 when this came out...thought the bell bottom craze was weird but the music...cant help but move!
KTel record in Australia, 70's, got an old suitcase record player, album cost 10c at a church jumble sale......think I owe you a lifetime of grooving ..... Lol. Thank you.
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Gotta tell ya. I`m a rocker and have been one my entire life. I just remember all of us despising disco and this type of music when I was a kid. I mean hated it! Looking back, when I saw a TV special on this guy, around 20 years later. My appreciation for this cat grew Immensely. Also that he was probably the only guy that had a full band with real musicians backing him, no drum machines either! I really dig his unique style and his music just wants to make you wanna get up and dance. KC, you`re alright with me brother! Every song I`ve ever heard from you is very compelling!
I agree, but I'm also compelled to point out that KC and the Sunshine Band's first big hit "Rock Me Baby" (sung by George McCrae) actually featured digital drums. It sounded great, so I'm not knocking it. The bass player, Rick Finch, was the musical brains behind it. He was content to be the musical mastermind behind the scenes and doesn't get the credit he deserves these days. Apparently, he also got screwed out of half his deserved songwriting royalties owing to a strange contract he supposedly agreed to back in the early 80s that gave KC a hundred percent of the royalties.
Guys in those days hated disco because it was too Black and too gay.
@@tekharthazenyatta2310 I completely agree with everything you said, except for the last part. I have seen from DIFFERENT sources, in different places, that the songs were basically written by KC with bits such as song titles randomly contributed by Rick Finch. Rick was "genius" when it came to producing and arranging, and was VERY instrumental in creating the sound of their songs. Realizing the importance of Rick's contributions and knowing song writers got the best deal in royalties, KC wanted both of them to be listed as song writing collaborators. (This evened out the "distribution curve" of the music industry and was overall more "fair" to Rick.)
Aside from this info. being dispelled by TK employees who were there during that time, you have to look at how human nature functions. Musicians think of their songs as creative art, and cherish them as such. I don't believe KC was a big enough a**hole to "steal" from another artist he had worked SO closely with, I think he had more respect than that. As musicians tend to be possessive of their song writing creations, I don't believe Rick would have just given them away for a "pittance". Is an artist going to just "sign away" something they TRULY created?......GET REAL, I DON'T think so. He was willing to sign away "song writing" rights because he WASN'T the writer. They BOTH had attorneys at the time, and Rick did NOT have to sign if he really didn't want to. It was a straight forward legal agreement which HAS stood up to time and legal challenges.
KC went "back" on his plan to reward Rick, and Rick went "back" on his public acknowledgement of KC as the song-writer. It looks like something VERY bad went down between the two of them, ONLY those two know what it was. Whether or not Rick was TRULY content about just "being behind the scenes" is something ONLY he truly knows. I think that the fact that the "attention" (at least from the public) pretty much ALL went to KC was behind the huge rift that occurred between them.
All that being said, it needs to be acknowledged that Rick has NOT received anywhere near the credit he DESERVES!
Same here man always been a rock n roll outlaw but KC was excellent dance music..
you like him cos he’s white
Every time I see a KC and Sunshine Band video I see how joyous and happy they are. Good times.
It's 2024 who else is still jammin to this song....
i can't help but shake my ass when i hear KC and the sunshine band
Meeeeeee
Hell Ya!!
Made in Brazil 😂
Me!
A man that took such simple lyrics and turned them into gold.
Solid Gold.
Not the violence we see today
A little dope helped it along
@@minermike61 LOL I can think of a number of vids 70s, 80s where guys were coked to the gills.
WOnder about the silent generation who were around when Coca Cola was green and actualy had cocaine in it.
Kid have ADD, no problem pick up a 6 pack for Jr!
Do a little dance, make a little love, get down tonight, get down tonight
I am definitely a 70's person. I graduated high school in 76' and university in 80', so I was able to attend school through this entire period. It was a great time and KC and the Sunshine Band's music was always playing somewhere. I love the horn section and the fact that these dudes played their own instruments. I also love that the band was multicultural and they could just get down, play and dance. The 70's were plain fun.
Graduated in 77', then San Francisco State University to play baseball, we were "heart- breakers, not life- takers", sex-drugs-rockin roll!!!
The university done in 4 years? Wow! Where?
@@vornachname8064 In my day everyone graduated in 4 years. That was the norm - I don't know what the norm is today as I don't have children and don't know anyone that young anymore.
I died in the 70s; literally for 9.3 minutes. I had overdosed on this super pure cocaine and flatlined. This was in 1973. Guess what? I never touched that crap again! I prefer LIFE😊
@@barneyronnie 😊🙌🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤️🤗
The unstoppable horn section of the original Sunshine Band. I could watch those guys all day.
Wow! Thanks for the memories, KC, Jerome Smith, Robert Johnson and the other band members. Your music is timeless and incomparable.
Saw them live at RAF Colitishall in 1974......no words.....just awesome!!!!
I remember hearing this driving alone in a company car from England to Holland. Never forget this memory.
This great song represents an entire era.
I was born in 68, I remember my older sister playing all these 70's songs...love it
Same here, parents would get dolled up Fri night get a babysitter for us and get their boogie on
this music will never fade even in 100 years
How I'd love to stay the age I am now & go back to those times!! I loved the 70's & 80's!! I'm a child of the 70's & a teen of the 80's & always will be!
Amen!
I got ten years on you there, and I MISS THOSE DAYS more than I can describe. Real music from talented people.
Me too )': I'm 22 and since 6yo I wished to be a 60's teen and my age in the 70's. If anybody ever heard anything about a time machine please contract me here!!!!
I was 17 when this released, it takes me right back. 👍🏼💕😊🇨🇦
😎👌70's
Im a 90s baby and i loooooooooooveee retro music!!!!!!! They dont make jams like this no more!!!! This is music!!!!!
Still love his voice and still makes me get up and dance!
QUE RECUERD0S!!!! GRACIAS MI HARRY!!!! POR TUS CANCIONES POR TU VOZ POR TU GENTE!!!!!! TAN GUAPO!!! GRACIAS A DIOS DISFRUTE TODA ESTA ÉPOCA ME REÍ Y BAILÉ TODOS TUS ÉXITOS!!! SIEMPRE SIEMPRE EN MI REPERTORIO EN MI CORAZÓN. .. HOY AGOSTO 2020!!! EN PLENA CUARENTENA PERO DE ESTA SALDREMOS ADELANTÉ!!!!! QYE DIOS NOS PROTEJA CON SU INFINITA MISERICORDIA DESDE IQUIQUE CHILE YO SOY MÚSICA. .❤️
Great music breaks many barriers. None of the stuff going on in 2022. None of the "you're a racist" crap. This was living
LOVE this song and K.C. Had the pleasure in the late 70's to see them at our State Fair. Time to "Get Down Tonight!"
This must never die. Love, love it. I danced under the disco ball. Good, good times. Sandra B
This music helped me get thru our tour overseas in USArmy!!!!!💖🇺🇸🇺🇸
Today is the 45th anniversary of "Get Down Tonight" going #1! So many years of doin’ a little dance! 🕺🏼
Greatest disco band of all time! Every band member is 100% entertainment!
Loved these guy's back in the day ..Get a little dance on
As a teenager listening to this song , I'm reminded of SK. (It was High School, were both young, and still it felt like this song was genuinely about us).
what a show !!! Just like Earth, Wind, Fire love it !!
This brother had a soul brothers spirit on him . Man I was raise up hearing this awesome 😎 songs in my lad times and use to go to disco nights on my neighbor hood down south wow ! Good music nothing like 70s vatos ..
When KC started handing out flowers I was how cool is that? The best music and their outfits were always the bomb
When musicians smiled as they performed
Absolutely thank you
Coz they was digging it !
miss that!!!!!!!
Happy times! Blended USA! Happy Dancing!👏👏👏🇺🇸🇺🇸😎💚
This dude and his band are the real deal. A whole, complete band, complete with a brass section. No autotune. No sampling. Just original, funky music that you can feel in your bones, and makes you want to groove! And maybe go make some sweet love afterward!
I love listening to this song,,KC and the Sunshine Band,, I am constantly on UA-cam wearing out the videos. Great music
Brings back great memories when i was 12 years old. Love this group great upbeat music. Not like this crap they play now.
Good Times...Never back again!
Thanks to UA-cam > Time Machine!
It is very sad ! But is thrue !
Love the band since I was 16 my very first record I'm 61 and still listening love to see them dancing with the instruments
Saw him in concert Friday night! Awesome!! No one sat down the entire show! they were dancing even before he came on! 68 years old! Amazing!
Amen to that
This generation should be jealous. Proud of my raising.
We had fun. Good clean fun
😝🕺🏽 🎶
My very first record it was yellow I'm 61 now and still listening to it
Some,,,,body get me a dance floor !!!!
I right there with ya!
You know it my frind
ディスコで流れる曲はこの「 get down tonight」が最高です。なにもかも忘れ朝まで踊りくるった 47年前の二十歳の頃を思い出します。
Puts a smile on my face every time.....
Go KC and The Sunshine Band Happy New Year 2021 nice Orchestre
KC acting all giddy with them lyrics and tempo...well deserved, my dude.
The Sunshine band is magnificent. !!!
I remember dancing our butts off to this music at the teen club at AVSOUTH NATO base Naples Italy 76-78. Woooooooo hoo! Such fun times.
Ha, my Marine boyfriend was stationed there 75 - 76!
Love it... No racial problems here. Black and white at its best!
The 70s were GREAT. Semper Fidelis from an old Marine Sergeant
Still love dancing to this one. Those disco moves were hard. Anyone remember "THE HUSTLE"???😂😂😂
I especially love watching those men dancing as their are playing,,my special of this video,,is when KC goes out in the audience and gives the women a flower,,Yeah I saw Dolly Parton in the audience,,what a gentleman
Tenho uma coletânea em vinil do KC de 1982! Muito boa! Só musicão.
Anybody remember his 2 female singers ? They were 🔥 & with him for years!
They are really having fun and it is so happy funky
real music. Real talent. no music machines. this playing at the drive in with yr favorite girl
I want this music back, these days back and the Gen X love ❤
This song was the.... Back in my days still going strong 💪
I saw this at Lake Tahoe and what a Show. Awesome
I love this music
Era tan lindo Kc!! Beauty!!
Saw KC & Sunshine Band at Disney World Valentines Night 1979. There were different bands in each land. KC played in front of the Castle. Kool & The Gang played in TomorrowLand. Jan & Dean played ? I can't remember the rest.
Happy birthday kc and sunshine band thank for give us good music we love you
2021 Who's still gettin down tonight !!!!
Such a gentleman giving out flowers to all the ladies;)
Man I wish I were a kid again and be me. I used to to get beat up all the time because of my music taste, I'd do it all again just to relive my back in the day jams.
At that time kids just got beaten up in school if they were doing different things lmao
Great vocals, lyrics and music! Love ya KC!
#1 the day I was born, an absolute eternal banger!
Listen to that intro!! Always thought it was an electric piano...man can jam!
Was 8 when this came out...thought the bell bottom craze was weird but the music...cant help but move!
had this record used to play it loud when mum an dad used to leave the house to go shopping ha ha
claudette dalton I was born in 1970 so I was lucky enough to say that is was my parents that had KC in heavy rotation LOUD!
Get up and Dance! God Bless you KC! The SUNSHINE BAND! 🌞
You have to see them perform it to really get it.
That opening is played with such precision, I thought it was maybe a keyboard, but it's a guitar.
KC proved there’s only one race, the human race! You see what we can accomplish when we all come together as one?
I loooooove this one
Cute doll. So charismatic!
It's brilliant love it. Good days 👍👍👍👍♥️
You will NEVER get a band this good & this big together again like this. In Hialeah too that’s so sick
Loved KC
Note KC spreading the good vibes at the end, connecting with his audience. Groups like them knew how to bring people together.
✝️ I’m doing the things that we like to do. It’s fun smile❤❤❤
That song takes me to some another dimension. Especially the intro.
Another...DANCE FLOOR IS FULL YAWL..song !! Yes indeedy..we did a little dance!
Intro sick!!😳thank you KC and The Sunshine Band y'all truly brought it! Know body sound like this. You truly brought the sunshine . Phenomenal!😃
Love it ❤ KC and the Sunshine Band was the first LP I ever got ☺
Excellent group and props for breaking down those early racial barriers. Music knows no color.
THIS was the defining music of the 70s.Played in skateparks all over the uSa.
Kc giving a flower to Dolly🕺
K.C. RULES THE DANCE FLOOR FOR EVER!!!!!!!!!!! ❤
Another great song grew up with
REMEMBERING GUITARIST
JEROME SMITH
(June 18, 1953 - July 28, 2000)
"K.C. & THE SUNSHINE BAND"
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Harry Wayne Casey was so darn cute.
yep agreed :-)
This song was played on AM radio constantly after it came out in the 70s.
KTel record in Australia, 70's, got an old suitcase record player, album cost 10c at a church jumble sale......think I owe you a lifetime of grooving ..... Lol. Thank you.
I'm telling you!! Ashton Kutcher... could do his life story... I'm telling you...
Jim Carey look alike
mundrubjet Yes you are right
Exactly what I've said if they ever did a documentary ashton kutcher would play kc Harry Wayne Casey
Haha, yeah, but Ashton may be a bit too long in the tooth now!
He gives his all every show. Wat a treat seeing him n his band awesome!
beautiful song...........it was full moon that day
Ke bonito y cuantos recuerdos era muy joven cuando oía estas canciones geniales sublimes magníficos gracias
Glad I grew up with 70's music. Upbeat and life was so different then. I had a huge crush on K.C.!
Childhood memories of Friday arriving. Xxxx
Maybe the greatest Disco song of all time!
Kasey your background boys did so wonderful.
Show São Paulo - Brazil and allianz Park KC .2019
This song still holds up today.
I love kc and the sunshine band always
Early morning today is going to be a good day that's the way I feel OLD School