Can we bring back this music I feel the world needs it now. I didnt grow up in this era but it’s always been my favourite type and I listen to it daily. We need to bring it back!
Remember watching this video on NBC's Friday Night Videos back in 1984. Seeing it brings back a lot of great memories. Having recently been successful in a battle with melanoma (cancer), words cannot express how much I am able to enjoy this video/song being cancer-free. Thank you for sharing this video.
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Bought KC&The Sunshine Band Greatest Hits CD.Put my older sister(61 yrs. old)in my pickup truck after a Doctors appointment for her Heart and Lung transplant surgery.I put KC in the CD player,and we listened and sang KC all the way home.I love this band.
MR. BIGGS and Lucy Jackson. Same here too. My high school days and my early time in the Army was filled with KC and the Sunshine Band. I always loved their music but I never knew there was a music video to this great song.
That’s because in America, “Give It Up” was released as a single independently by K.C. himself almost a year after it first had become a hit outside America after KC’s record label had refused to promote the song there as a single. This music video was made for the American market.
this song makes me realise that life is better when l listen to this song its brilliant and does help me with depression its so true thanks to kc and Sunshine' band brilliant song
if there is one that can help with anything including depression. His name is God=Lord Jesus Christ. He can also save us from our sins if we willingly ask Him. John 8:24 Jesus the Light of the World …23Then He told them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. 24That is why I told you that you would die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.” 25“Who are You?” they asked. “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning,” Jesus replied.… Exodus 3:14 God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM"; and He said, "Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you.'" John 8:58 "Truly, truly, I tell you," Jesus declared, "before Abraham was born, I am!" John 14:14 The Way, the Truth, and the Life …13And I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it. 15If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.…
@Ephesians 5:11: This track is from 1982, thus 80's but you are right we had good music in the 70's too. Anything up until 2016 I suppose although there was a brief drop in the 2004 mark but after 2016 its been crap. But, the best era's for music are the 60's, 70's and 80's.
Most music videos I have seen barely make any sense. Have you seen many videos from this millennium? Most aren't quite as extreme in their oddness as this classic but they are usually random nonsense or younger types dancing like goof bags in a kind of look at me style with not even a hint of theme or creative drive like this confusing, mystifying classic. First time I saw this clip was 2 days ago and after over 35 years of being familiar with the song my mind is still blown how they came up with this! One of those mysterious pieces of art which I wish I never understand the idea of the clip but just enjoy its wacky fun.
@@wighto73 [Most music videos I have seen barely make any sense. First time I saw this clip was 2 days ago and after over 35 years of being familiar with the song my mind is still blown how they came up with this! One of those mysterious pieces of art which I wish I never understand the idea of the clip but just enjoy its wacky fun.] Here's more of the inexplicable.... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YjtZWPwGtaY.html
Richard Osias was the producer for KC and the Sunshine Band. He named 2 of his daughters Alexandra with different middle names, 1 played the Water Muse probably at 6 years old while filming this video, the other played one of the captives. It's great to see family involvement in this video. This might be the only concept video KC and the Osias family ever did. RIP Richard Osias
I remember seeing this video about a year after the song came out. I was a little kid and had no idea who KC or the Sunshine Band were. I do remember thinking, "What am I watching?" But I also remember I liked the song, so I didn't change the channel. That was life in the early '80s for ya.
I love this song, and this is the first time I saw this video. This looks like the producers for cats got drunk, and had to recreate the Mos Eisley cantina scene without having watched Star Wars 😂
It's astounding that a "disco" artist from the mid-to-late '70's could still somehow come up with a hit in 1983, without making a single change in their sound, despite the total backlash against disco. Even the Bee Gees or Donna Summer couldn't do this. This is as "disco" in 1983 as anything KC did in the seventies, and yet still it made it to #18 in the Billboard chart.
Having this be a hit single wasn’t easy. It was initially released only in Holland as the third single there, where disco was still big, then it slowly became popular internationally. Even after it became a huge hit in Britain, KC’s record label at the time had still felt it wasn’t worth releasing and promoting in America, so he bought back the master rights to the song and released it himself as a single on his own independent record label he started.
This hit from KC and The Sunshine Band was the 499th #1 song in the United Kingdom of the Rock Era. I am a resident of South Carolina. I have never seen them in person, but I do have a memory of them. It was on a Sunday afternoon in August 1977 that they appeared at the Carowinds Amusement Park Paladium on the border of NC/SC near Charlotte. Traffic was backed up I-77 and I-85 for miles. They finally had to shut the park to the rest of the public because they were at full capacity. Radio stations like WBT (1110 AM) were breaking in to tell people to just turn around and go back home.
Esta canción y Sunshine reggae, bajo mi punto de vista, dos de las canciones más icónicas y representativas de los 80's. Simplemente cerras los ojos, auriculares, volumen al mango y mientras te perfumas en un sábado de primavera de cualquier año....es lo más parecido a volver a esa década maravillosa
God what a good memory. Thank you for showing the video. I've heard the song a million times but never the video. Love you so much KC and the Sunshine Band. LOVE
I remember this song well, I mean instant love. I was babysitting at the time and heard it for the first time when it come on the radio. I was on the phone with my friend's ex-boyfriend, in the kitchen, just chit-chatting (typical babysitter) REALLY, and so I have a memory attached to it. That's what makes it so special. Plus, I love this video. x
Ah...back in the day when videos had nothing to do with the song itself and didn't even make any sense for the most part. 😂 But it's worth going through just to hear this wonderful, delightful R&B/Pop song which you never really hear anymore. "Give It Up" actually became one of KC's best and most beloved songs. His songs always had a naïve innocence about them that played well and provided some much needed light entertainment. Good ol' Harry Casey from St Louis, Missouri. Love him. ❤
The last disco hit. Ever. In mankind. Give it up. Baby, give it up. God bless disco.KC gave disco life well beyond it was designed for. God bless you Harry Wayne Casey
J.B. By this time, music videos were becoming more of a thing, especially in America. But it’s obvious that this music video was influenced by Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” music video that was very popular at the time.
I'm totally obsessed with this band. Been playing this song in particular for the last month straight. My kids are ready to kill me, but I don't care, love this song. Reminds me of when I was a kid in the 70's and 80's!
I absolutely love this song, I'm 41 and this was my first ever record i bought on 7 inch vinyl, i couldn't wait to get home from town to put it on the record player, good times
@@JP-ch8es yeah of course, walked myself down to Woolworths, smashed my piggy bank open and counted my 2 and 1 p coins, walked back home, got the boys round and then danced the night away to K.C and his band of sunshine 🌞
Wow -- I didn't even know there was a theatrical video for this song until this moment! I grew up on & love KC & The Sunshine Band. But, it was weird... so that might explain not seeing it.
That’s because this was made for the American market. Despite being an international hit, KC’s previous record label had refused to release “Give It Up” as a single in America, so he bought back the rights to the master recording. KC released “Give It Up” as a single in America in 1984 on his own independent record label and financed the music video himself, with the intent of having it air on MTV.
Oh, the memories this brings back! When this video came out, I was newly 'out' too. I was 25, thin, handsome, and had a happy heart. I was often short of money, but I didn't really care. I loved my job and I had lots of handsome boyfriends. The 80s were my glory days! What do you mean, "that was 35 years ago?" Tell me how I can go back again; is there a form I can fill out? A fee I can pay?
Lasse 1964 In the rest of the world, the single had already come out a year earlier in 1983. It wasn’t released in America until almost a year later, because K.C.’s previous record label that the song had been first recorded for had refused to put it out as a single in America, so he started his own label to put it out in America and the album it was on, K.C. Ten, hence why this music video was made, to help in the promotion process.
I was vacationing at Hampton Beach New Hampshire in 99 or 2000 and kc was playing at the casino ballroom on the next street over. It wasn't my cup of tea prior to hearing them but sounded great and has always stuck with me.
But I don't understand the video - do you?! "Give It Up", is supposed to be referring to a guy asking a girl to 'give up' sex to him, yet there is a child in this video! And why was Harry unconscious in a pond, with the child stroking his hair? I don't get it - they at least could have provided a synopsis of the storyline. Weird!
Peaked at number 18 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart in 1984. Their 14th and, as of this moment, final US top 40 hit. They also had five US number one singles and have sold more than 125 million albums worldwide.
Man my grandma loves this song back in the dayz when she was married to my grandpa and she will tell me you know what my favorite song is back in the days and I will say no and she said baby don't give it up
🎤🎻Me fascina K.C & Sunshine band, bello esté chico, que recuerdos inolvidables, época maravillosa, me encanta el cantante, tenían muchas canciones preciosas, realmente me enamoré de este K.C. lindos recuerdos.🎶🎸
Millenials and Zoomers probably consider the 80's to be the decade of selfish materialism, goofy fashion and stupid hairstyles --- but for us Gen X'ers who grew up in that decade, it was just a simpler time when we didn't have Internet and looked at a screen all day --- all we needed were some friends to share some laughs and listen to good music --- so go ahead and make fun of us, but we miss it a LOT and would love to go back there
Agree. I had just graduated HS in 1980, had a job, bought my 1st new truck in 81, was having fun in the desert in the sand dunes of Glamis , Ca. riding 3 wheelers at night and the next day camping out. Going to San Diego in the summer for the weekends to the beach with my friends...........
I’ve heard this so many times as a quintessential 80s song and I had no idea it was made by the same people who made quite a few quintessential 70s song. Really adapted for changing tastes
Completely forgot about KC until this 2022 summer (his tours don't seem to make it all the way up to Seattle) when I found his white album during a garage clean out. I listened to the album on RU-vid and fell in love with it all over again. But, I think I appreciate it even MORE now than I did in the 70's! ❤❤❤
I first watched this amazing video on Night Tracks on Superstation TBS long ago and was literally blown away by how it looked. This is one of the coolest music videos that I saw on TV while growing up. Yes, those were the good old days. Music of the era never sounded so better.
