Kc And The Sunshine Band 1983

[Cyrille Mixtapes]

Give It Up" is a song by American disco and funk band KC and the Sunshine Band,[4] although it was simply credited as KC in many markets, including the United States. Following the backlash against many disco artists on the charts at the beginning of the 1980s, "Give It Up" was a comeback hit for the band in the US. Epic Records refused to release it; however, the independent Meca Records label showed its support and "Give It Up" peaked at number 18 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in March 1984. "Give It Up" had been an even bigger hit in the United Kingdom several months earlier, where it had hit number one on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in August 1983.[5] It went on to become the 18th best-selling single of the year in the UK. It was the last of the band's hit singles in the US and UK, and the most successful of its ten UK hits. "Give It Up" also peaked at number two in Belgium, number three in Australia, and reached the Top 10 in several other markets.

"Give It Up" was covered by Danish Eurodance group Cut 'N' Move and released in February 1993 as the first single from their second album, Peace, Love & Harmony (1993). Their version reached number one in Denmark for five weeks and in Australia for four weeks. The song also peaked at number two in Norway, number five in New Zealand, and number six in Austria, Germany, and Sweden. On the Eurochart Hot 100, it reached number 31 in August 1993. In Australia, it was certified platinum. It is sung by singers Zindy Laursen and Thera Hoeymans. The rap part is performed by MC Zipp (a.k.a. Jens Kjr Larsen). A colorful music video was produced to promote the single. Cut 'N' Move covered the song again in 1997 for Dancemania Covers.

KC and the Sunshine Band is an American musical group. Founded in 1973, their style has included funk, R&B, and disco. Their most well known songs include the disco hits That's the Way (I Like It), (Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty, I'm Your Boogie Man, Keep It Comin' Love, Get Down Tonight, Give It Up, and Please Don't Go. They took their name from Wayne Casey's last name ("KC") and the "Sunshine Band" from KC's home state of Florida ('The Sunshine State').

The group was formed by Richard Finch, a budding studio engineer prodigy at TK Records and Harry Wayne Casey ("KC"), a record store employee and part-timer at TK Records in Miami. Though both worked at TK Records, their meeting was not immediate, with Finch spending much of his time in the recording studio working with other TK artists and Casey on the phones at the front desk. An introduction by Clarence Reid through a mutual friend was the beginning of their musical connection. Following demo work, Casey and Finch were encouraged to create their own group. The initial members were just Casey and Finch (first starting out as songwriting collaborators), but Finch soon added guitarist Jerome Smith (June 18, 1953 - July 28, 2000), and drummer Robert Johnson, both TK studio musicians.

The first few songs, "Blow Your Whistle" (September 1973) and "Sound Your Funky Horn" (February 1974), were released as singles, and had limited impact. However, a side project writing and producing music for George McCrae took Finch and Casey's "Rock Your Baby", featuring Smith on guitar, and made it a hit in mid-1974, selling 11 million copies worldwide. The band's "Queen of Clubs", which featured uncredited vocals by George McCrae, was a hit in England, peaking at #7, and they went on tour to England in 1975 off that success.

In 1981, the partnership between Finch and Casey came to an acrimonious end. Two years after the release of the previous album, the group released two solo albums with new material, geared toward pop: The Painter and Space Cadet. These albums generated little success, but in 1982, a hit track called "Give It Up" on the album All in a Night's Work (recorded before Casey and Finch split partnership) brought a return to success in the UK, and appeared two years later on the United States Billboard Top 40. The song was also featured on the band's next album, 1983's KC Ten. Epic Records, however, refused to issue the song as a single due to its prior failure in the US. Because of this, a frustrated Casey formed Meca Records, releasing the single himself on this label in a final attempt to garner the song some success in America. It worked, but the album still failed to surpass expectations. This led to the group falling into stasis around 1985 with Casey's retirement.

A revival in the interest of disco music in 1991 brought Casey out of retirement. He reformed the group with entirely new members except for the percussionist and began touring once again. Some of the original members of the band are now deceased. The new band has released a large number of compilation albums through Rhino Records, featured along with some newly recorded material. The album Oh Yeah! was released in 1993 after a ten year gap between new albums, excluding compilations.

In 2001, the band made a brief comeback into the music scene after an eight-year lull with the release of a new album titled I'll Be There For You. The album was praised by critics, but it failed to generate any impact on the charts or in sales. More recently, the group had an appearance in the 2003 remake of the movie The In-Laws.

Several KC/Finch songs have been included in the Dance Dance Revolution series of dance video games. That's the Way (I Like It) was included in the original Dance Dance Revolution, Shake Your Booty was in Dance Dance Revolution 4thMix and Get Down Tonight was in the American home version of DDRMAX2.

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According to the Noosa News (29/4/1983), the event was plagued by traffic gridlock. Police sergeant Arthur Frohmuller told the newspaper that traffic had begun building up at 8:30am and by the time the concert began at 11am vehicles were backed up by three kilometres around the venue. There were approximately 35 police in attendance, across two shifts, to manage the crowd and traffic.

On a side note, The Church were late arriving on the day, requiring the Sunnyboys to go ahead of them. Fast forward to 2010, The Church were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame. During their acceptance speech, Steve Kilbey confessed that the band had been deliberately late. "The Church were supporting the Sunnyboys at a festival," Kilbey told the audience. "We decided to be late... and we were standing there and we had explained it quite adequately why we were legitimately late and Red Symons [from Skyhooks] came in and said, 'I know you meant to do it. It's all part of the game. You meant to be late. You didn't want to go on before them.'"

The Party Boys were formed in 1982 and over the years featured a continuing rotation of part-time band members from other Australian acts, including Australian Crawl vocalist James Reyne who appeared on stage at the Noosa Aussie Hop.

I 1983 bragte Bill Lewis, som arbeider i USA Today omtrent ti varmluftsballonger til Union 76 Truck Stop p Interstate 78 i New Jersey etter det frste arrangementet. Etter to r flyttet festivalen til sitt nvrende sted p Solberg Airport, der det vokste til 40-50 ballonger og 30 000-40.000 tilskuere. I 1993 kjpte Howard Freeman og John Korff New Jersey Festival of Ballooning og inngikk en langsiktig avtale med Solberg Airport, samme r som de sikret seg en langsiktig sponsoravtale med QuickChek. I dag er festivalen blitt den strste begivenhet i New Jersey og den strste sommerballong festival i Nord-Amerika.

I 2000, for skille festivalen fra andre ballongfestivaler ble strre konserter lagt til festivalen. Den frste konserten presenterte det legendariske band, The Beach Boys. Hver pflgende festival har tre store konserter. Store navn p plakaten har omfattet The Doobie Brothers, Hall & Oates, Styx, Foreigner, America, Jonas Brothers og KC & The Sunshine Band.

Siden 2004 har festivalen ansatt en jomfru for utfre et ritual for sikre godt vr for festivalen. Det har fungert bra i de tre siste rene. Freeman, en av arrangrene hevder at ritualet kommer fra Singapore. Det innebrer ha en jomfru til kjre en golfcart til hvert av de fire hjrnene av festival-omrdet. I hvert hjrne plukker hun opp blader med gress, mumler noen tilfeldige ord, skjrer hele lk og paprika med en kniv, s stikker hun kniven og den oppskrne lk og paprika i bakken.[1]

Jomfruen i 2007, Victoria Brumfield (fdt 1979), sa det er en blanding av uskyldig moro og skam og at hvis det ikke regner, er det ikke min skyld og jeg kan ikke klandres. Jeg venter til jeg er gift, og ingen har fridd enn. Hun er en hengiven mormoner.[2][3]

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