First Time Reaction | KC and the Sunshine Band - Get Down Tonight | Reaction 

K. C. lit the roller skate rinks, up.

Sad story. Harry was injured in a bad car accident and was partially paralyed. The doctors said he may never walk again. He had to relearn how to walk, dance, and play keyboard. Owing to his resilience he was injured in January and back in the studio by the end of the year.

I don't care where you are , if they play this song and Brickhouse (Commadores) and September (Earth , Wind & Fire) booty of all ages will be on the dance floor shakin' what they got !

KC & the Sunshine Band was on fire in the 70s. I was in elementary school. We'd play their songs at school parties and did dances like the bump, the hustle, etc. Fun times!! FYI: Kansas's lead singer is a keyboardist.

These guys and the BeeGees were everywhere in the 70s/Disco! They had hit after hit after hit, just a fun time! We used to put the record on and make dance routines, lol.

KC and the Sunshine Band is a major rabbit hole to go down. I remember...

"Get Down Tonight" was their break-out single that put them in the spotlight in 1975. They had a more funky club hit in 1974 called "Queen of Clubs" that unfortunately most people have forgotten since it did not chart well on the Hot 100. They also did a great cover of The Four Tops song "It's The Same Old Song" in the late 1970s. Many hits... a great band that stayed on the charts from the mid 70s until about 1980.

People used to LISTEN. They paid attention and showed respect by doing that. It wasn’t about the audience showing off.

Haha, sounds like you know a lot of their songs already!! That just shows how big they were and how awesome their songs are that they're still being used today.

Boogie man, Boogie shoes. Keep it coming love. Golden songs. ❤️❤️❤️✌️

KC played keyboard, sang AND danced all at once. Talk about multi-tasking

K. C. is Harry Wayne Casey. They were a fun dance band! I was a teenager at the time (born in '59) and like you said, you couldn't *not* move when you heard them! Fun reaction! 😊

KC And The Sunshine Band was a very special band in the 1970s. They played contemporary Disco Pop music, but their horn section music had crossover appeal to the older music listeners that grew up on Big Band music. The band’s music appealed to millions of music fans, young and old. They came on to the US music scene at the right place, and at the right time.

We rocked the skating rink with this song and everyone danced when they sang do a little dance, and got down on their skates when they sang get down tonight! 😊

Did you notice Dolly Parton in the front row excepting a rose? It was filmed on her show 'Dolly" on ABC and KC and the Sunshine Band were a guest on that show. Do more live KC please.

Do them all they are all great. These guys were fantastic in person.

KC was huge in the 70's....thanks for the memory.

Okay, you're right on with the ones you think you know. So you should do, Boogie Shoes next. 👍🏽

Supertramp, Styx and Kansas all have lead singers playing keys..I'm sure there's tons more. I'm so glad you loved these guys! They are funkmisters! Thanks.

The reason I think they don't get a lot of attention, despite their music showing up in a lot of places, was because in the 1980s there was a big backlash against disco. To the point that a bunch of disco records were crushed by a bulldozer in a stadium in 1980 and disco was declared "dead". I was a teenager in the 1980s and that was the attitude. I think younger generations are giving it a chance because honestly, it is very fun music.

KC and the Sunshine Band were a lot of fun back in the day. Lots of great songs from them. Platforms and Polyester! How we did not go up in flames is a miracle. Remember that was the age of cocaine and party hard. The money went so fast with the famous rich people we are lucky many of them survived the Disco years. Check them out further, you will have a great trip!

I used to get to stay up late on the weekends and watch The Midnight Special with my older siblings. I remember seeing KC and The Sunshine Band on that show when I was like in 3rd grade. The song never gets old, even for me, who eventually grew up to be a metal head. The music of my childhood always remains. Good Times.

We Had So Much Fun Back in the DAY! It was safe st the Disco Clubs. Everyone wanted Everyone to Have a Good Time. I snuck in with my group of girlfriends. We were between 15 snd 17. Everyone looked out for us. We arrived together and we all safely left together and got home by midnight! Us girls just wanted to wear those beautiful outfits we had back then and we wanted to dance, that was all. We weren't served alcohol because the bartenders knew we were underage. That was okay with us because getting drunk wasn't what our little crew were interested in. By the time I got to drinking age the age of Disco was starting to wind down.

The Eagles started as backup studio musicians who agreed to play for Linda Ronstadt on her tour and then formed their own band. So studio musicians were allowed to work together back in the 70’s.

KC & the Sunshine band was just so much fun! You just couldn't sit still, had to get up and boogie.

Other big and very successful large bands with multiple instruments include Earth Wind and Fire as well as Tower of Power.

They were all house musicians, singers, writers, engineers and producers foe TK records. Started doing their own thing became the biggest funk, dance, soul pop band of the early to mid 70's.

Theres TONS of GREAT music todays listeners have never heard and missing out on, the talent and fun quotient and variety was SO much better back then-!!!

I clicked on this because I knew there would be dancing.🕺

What a fun group! I always enjoyed their music. Going to the clubs with this type of music was the best.

Saw them perform a few months ago and they still get down 😁

They are from my hometown of Miami and were signed to the local label "TK Records" before a major label picked them up. I met KC at a local Musical festival in South Beach a few years ago & he wasn't even playing just enjoying the music. A very nice guy!

This video was cut way, way, way short. Be sure to check out the full-length song. There was a 7" single / radio edit that was short, but this video was even shorter. Check out the version on the album. It's over five minutes long, and the album also contained their next big hit, "That's The Way I Like It."

Listen and watch their showmanship in the song Boggie-Shoes simple lyrics yet it jams! KC’s home was actually in Miami Lakes, city of Hialeah… back in the mid to late 70’s KC and his band use to practice in his garage… we use to trick or treat at his home, we’d stay in his driveway and watch them practice! KC is still alive and continues to sing 🎤 great music, band etc. back when artist actually played instruments and artist could sing with no auto-tune! And speaking of black and white artist… hence Miami which was a mix of white, blacks and Hispanics equally ❤ KC rabbit hole is a must!

Danced to these many a time when I was young. Didn't find out until a few years ago it was a Black group. Life was great back when you bought a vinyl record or listened to the radio because you loved the music and NOTHING ELSE MATTERED. I think a lot of the groups and songs from the disco era have been 'forgotten' because it became fashionable to be embarrassed about liking disco and nobody would admit to it. It's still the best dance music ever, and I'm still much more fond of Michael Jackson's "Off The Wall" than anything he did after.

They were all studio musicians who met in Florida. The bass player was white too. ❤

Yep, you hummed the melody correctly to all the songs you mentioned. That's awesome!

hearing this again, takes me back to the nightmare that was 7th grade.you couldnt turn on a radio without hearing this.the 70s was F#@KED UP even if we werent at the time.

Catch them on AB or Soul Train to see the crowd act right.

This was their biggest hit. They had like four big hits in 1975-76. Off their first album.

Saw them in concert several times, real fun .

Chicago had 3 lead singers, Peter Cetera - bass, Terry Kath - guitar & Robert Lamb - keyboards. Beginnings is Robert Lamb on vocals and is fire. Many keyboard players sing

You’ll definitely love these guys classic disco and funk right up there with the disc bee gees

Happy dance music from the wonderful 70’s.

Elton John was a record company employee at DJM records in London. He was a studio musician and an errand boy. He and his studio musician friends, like producer/guitarist Caleb Quaye, would sneak into the studio at night to make recordings. Eventually, the executives got to hear the recordings and let them cut demos for other artists and two albums worth of songs which became "Empty Sky" released in 1969 and the rest went into "Regimental Seargent Zippo" which Elton didn't release until 2021.

they were a GREAT band, some of their other hits were; SHAKE YOUR BOOTY, PLEASE DON'T GO, THAT'S THE WAY, I'M YOUR MY BOOGIE MAN, AND SO MANY OTHERS...ENJOY!!!! AND YOU ARE RIGHT ABOUT FLORIDA, WE WELCOME EVERYBODY HERE..UNTIL YOU SHOW YOUR A$$, THEN YOU GOT TO GO!!!!!!!!!

KC could dance in real life I like how he always chose black women to dance with him He was before his time He made a lot of hits Then during the mid eighties the band disappeared.

Kc was huge when I was in high school

Love your reaction for sure, man. There's another music video that seems to have almost the same lineup and it's their huge hit, I'm Your Boogie Man. It's one of the first search results on RU-vid and it is so fun. I like a lot of their stuff at the time even though I was more into Rock, which acknowledges that they were good at kind of bridging that Rock versus Disco gap at the time. I know from what you said that you've heard the song before and you know it from somewhere, but you really ought to see the video and just listen to the song from start to finish the way people heard it on the record or the radio or especially in dance clubs and at parties. It is so infectious.

Dude, we all get along down here in the south. This ain’t 1960. Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana Florida and Texas- we all basically get along and take care of each other. We love our neighbors.

d. u. d. e. you are GOOD knowing so many of those songs.

It is true, that many audiences were either told to keep quite, because the TV show producers wanted a clean performance, but in some cultures, it was still considered rude to get into the music & get down!

You are right, there is no way you could sit still when hearing this song.

Just like in Child In Time, it's not that they don't want the audience to have any fun, it's just they need them to be quiet to even have a prayer of getting some sort of decent live recording in that studio. Live Recording Technology then was definitely better than it was in the 60s but it's nothing like it was by the 80s and it's absolutely light years primitive compared to what can be done today.

14 sitting in the school lunchroom singing away! 😊

Booker T and the MGS, Procol Harum, Deep Purple, Guess Who, Dave Clark Five, Billy Joel, Ray from the Doors. are just a few where the keyboardist is lead singer.

If you react to "That's the Way I Like It," I bet you'd recognize that one, too. 😁

This song is pure ⚡ZEN and Energy⚡ both combined... I don't know how many times I can listen to this in a day to tire of it... But this HERE is the secret formula for feeling good ♥️💥‼️👍🏽

1981 disco era coming to an end people were burning and breaking their disco records

The song cut off long before the end. It's quite a bit longer. The likely reason the crowd wasn't dancing is that it was for a television program, and seated TV show audiences didn't usually dance. Just like you wouldn't see the TV audience dancing when music plays at the Grammies, seated audiences didn't dance at TV shows back then either. And the reason the group went bankrupt in 1981 is because they were a US band with hits mostly in the US and disco suddenly went out of style in the US in 1979. This group was considered one of the premiere disco groups of the seventies and when disco suddenly went "out" in the US in 1979, the public rather suddenly lost interest. I remember KC claiming in late 1979 that KC and the Sunshine Band wasn't really disco, even though they obviously had been. The pressure to keep in fashion was really strong. The Bee Gees kind of went "out" in the early eighties for a similar reason.

This is definitely a shorter version of this song. Interestingly, KC did a version of their song "I'm Your Boogie Man" with White Zombie. It's pretty cool!

As someone else said they were a big disco sound AND great to roller skate to with the glitter ball !! I also somehow think they are similsr to Chicago. Maybe just due to the amount of people and the solid instrumentals.

Born and bred in the sunshine state. Where I was born and bred.

And there touring this summer !!!

You definitely want to check out their music video for “I’m Your Boogie Man”. It was a promotional film clip that was made for their fans in Holland (The Netherlands) in a recording studio, and (I think) was aired on “Top Of The Pops” in the UK. The music video has over 36 million views here on RU-vid.

Ever heard of Jackson Brown, Elton John, Carly Simon, Carole King and Billy Joel…..just to name a few……they are/were lead singers that also play keyboards

Another band with a lead singer playing the keys is the Young Rascals. Check out their song "Good Lovin".

Welcome to the 70s. My favorite is Please dont Go

Ok…. Now you need to react to all of them ! You will recognize them all ❤️🔥🫵🏻

Saw them with Gladys Knight and the Pips in 78! How do yiu think that concert was!

KC was such a handsome dude!!

I think this was sot at the Grammys, If I remember right? It was a while back.

I grew up listening to this. Hot back up singers too

Sly and the Family Stone....60's keyboardist/lead vocals.

Do all their hits!!! They were HUGE!

Im an old broad and loved Zepplin and this at the same time. Just a suggestion... use a black background on your wall and we will see it better. Disco funk only lasted a short time but were excellent dance bands. In the day kids played instruments and they hung out together. today no one can play an instrument which is where music is.

Sly Stone was a keyboard player (organ), my friend...

Eric Carmen passed away... Could you listen to His song "Go all the way" He had others ... Thank You The songs of the "Razzberries" band

Been a long time since ive heard this 👍

Was it really a first for you to see a lead singer play keyboard? There are numerous great bands with the lead singer also being the primary keyboard player. Just to name a few: Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Billy Joel, REO Speedwagon, Coldplay, Kansas, Supertramp, Jackson Browne, Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Styx. And while not primarily on keyboard, there is an even longer list of other huge artists have played keyboard on at least one or more of their songs - here are a few: Elvis, Phil Collins, Paul McCartney, Freddy Mercury, Prince, Lionel Richie, John Paul Jones, Geddy Lee, Glenn Frey, and Dave Grohl.

I think Jerry Lee Lewis was the first lead singer keyboardist. Going way back. 1950s. KC and the Sunshine Band were one of those bands put together by session musicians who previously made their livings playing gigs with other bands. None of them were famous before the band, but they were all some of the best musicians you would hear.

Music as an industry was never totally segregated & was pretty integrated by the 1960's, which set it apart from many other industries, so racially mixed bands were common by the 1970's. After then, it was mainly marketing goons who separated races on the stage & in the studio, not society or law.

They still do live shows! Feel good music.

Unfortunately, The Bee Gees and K.C. & The Sunshine Band got caught up in the "We hate Disco" idiocy phase. Unless it was American Bandstand or Soul Train the audience was usually asked to stay in their seats when music artists were being filmed or live on tv so the tv audience could hear and focus on the artists and not what the studio audience was doing. Correction. The drummer, guitar player and tambourine guy were white too..at least at some point they were. I know they are in the Boogie Man video.

Earth Wind & Fire and Tower of Power also had many members.

Leonid & Friends

All skate at the roller rink

Do the young rascals you’ll love them I promise!!!!! Groovin and a whole lot more great music

Tha cut!

Re your puzzlement at black and white guys forming a band. what you don't realize is how different the times were then. Musically, at least, in many ways, race was a total non factor. We were coming out of the Civil Rights Era, and the youth were increasingly color blind. In fact, race was less of an issue to the youth in the 70's than it is today. I constantly see remarks from young people bringing up issues of race today, but in the 70s, the youth had a live and let live attitude, which seems quite foreign to many people today. This was a great band. I grew up in So. FL and saw them performing at the Castaways Wreck Bar in N. Miami Bch on several occasions where they were a particular favorite. They consistently packed the house, and management loved booking them.

I hated disco at the time. Now I adore it. 😎

They had the most consecutive #1 hits only after the Beatles from 1964-70. Only the Bee Gees beat their record after from 75? /77-79.

LMAO... DISCO SUCKED THEN AND STILL DOES... THANK GOD IT ONLY LASTED 3 YRS. I REMEMBER DISCO RECORD BURNING PARTIES...DOLLYPARTON WHOS SHOW THIS WAS ON WAS SITTING IN FRO T ROW AND GOT ROSE...

I'm Your Boogie man is a banger by KC and the Sunshine Band

I saw them live . It really depended on the venue K.C. & the Sunshine Band liked it when people got up and danced.The video of this song performed on Soul Train everyone was on the dance floor. And there are better videos of the song out there.

I really enjoyed you!💋

Wow, only half the song before it cut off. Not even to the bridge. Get down, get down, get down tonight, baby. Must have been a closing number for whatever the show was. But worth hearing the whole song, for sure.

Sorry guys I've never been a big fan. But....that could be because I've had limited exposure to them 😊. I'm going to have a listen to yhem all. ❤

Another example of lead singer on keyboards would be Sly and the Family Stone. PLEASE tell me you know who they are.

Was that Dolly Parton in the front row?