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KC & The Sunshine Band ...And More (1975)
Originallly Released 1975\nCD Edition Released December 13, 1994\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: This self-titled effort wasn't the Florida band's first album (they'd recorded an underrated album in 1973 titled Do It Good), but it was the first K.C. collection to soar to the top of the charts. Fueled by such addictive funk hits as "That's the Way (I Like It)" and "Get Down Tonight," the album established K.C. as one of the top stars of the disco era. But while K.C. was labeled a disco artist, the truth is that many of these slick yet gritty songs have more in common with the Ohio Players than the Silver Convention or Donna Summer. When Rhino reissued this album on CD in 1995 as KC & The Sunshine Band...And More, the company generously included several early K.C. smokers (including "I'm a Pushover") from Do It Good as bonus tracks. The invigorating material proves that even before the outfit hit big, its distinctive sound had been established. ~ Alex Henderson\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nThe "MORE" is a detractor!, August 19, 2001\nReviewer: Reginald D. Garrard (Camilla, GA USA)\nThe album, in its original form, is one of the best from the disco era. However, this release, with its additional previously unreleased tunes, falls short of its potential to recapture the period. Those songs are lackluster, obviously denoting why they remained unheard of after all these years.\nIf purchased, just skip the "new" ones and jump straight to the final two remixes.\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nStill doing it good!, February 14, 2001\nReviewer: DUANE SIMOLKE PHD "author of Degranon" (Lubbock, TX USA)\nThis CD of KCSB's second album is as enjoyable as when I first heard the vinyl version, but the CD has seven bonus selections! Two of those bonus selections are my two favorite songs from their first album, Do It Good. The CD ends with two remixes. The remix of "Get Down Tonight" is fun, but I prefer the one that appears on Part 3 and on 25th Anniversary. The remix of "That's The Way (I Like It)" adds extra percussion and some tempo changes; I can't say for sure, but I might like this remix even more than the original version of that classic dance song!\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nI'm So Crazy 'bout this CD, April 13, 1999\nReviewer: A music fan\nWhat is there not to like here? Fun lyrics, great horn playing, exciting percussion, and heartfelt singing all add up to a great time. If you're not smiling by the end of this, you'd better check your pulse. Highlights other than the obvious hits that everyone's heard a million times include "I'm So Crazy," "I'm a Pushover" and "Let it Go." And don't even get me started on "I Get Lifted" - that song takes me to a whole other dimension. Hey Rhino, while you're at it, why not combine "Who Do Ya Love" and "Do You Wanna Go Party" onto another CD?\n\nHalf.com Album Credits\nMilan Bogdan, Engineer\nRick Finch, Engineer\n\nAlbum Notes\nKC & The Sunshine Band: Harry Wayne "KC" Casey (vocals, keyboards); Jerome Smith (guitar); Richard Finch (bass, drums); Robert "Shotgun" Johnson (drums).\n\nAdditional personnel: Beverly Champion Foster, Jeanette Williams, Margaret Reynolds, Debra Carter (vocals); Mike Lewis (tenor saxophone); Whit Sidener (baritone saxophone); Kenny Faulk, Vinnie Tanno (trumpet); Fermin Goytisolo (percussion).\n\nProducers: H.W. Casey, Richard Finch, Steve Alaimo.\nReissue producers: David McLees, Bob Fisher.\nIncludes liner notes by Amy Linden.\n\nWhile Kool & The Gang (not to mention James Brown) brought streamlined, commercial funk to the airwaves first, it was this integrated party band from Miami that first surpassed the Gang in danceability and sheer musical artistry. One can hear in Harry Wayne Casey's pungent vocals the authentic white soul of Alex Chilton's Box Tops (Chilton eventually covered KC's "Boogie Shoes") even as his and bassist Richard Finch's regional grooves borrowed the Stax trademark off-rhythms of Booker T & The MGs, another successful model of Southern musical integration. Whatever the case for the Sunshine Band's regional roots, nothing can beat the pure "party's-here" excitement of the bouncing clavinet figures leading into "Get Down Tonight" or the dervish-like minor-mode incantations of "That's the Way I Like It." An added bonus on this extended version of the group's debut album--besides '80s remixes of the two big hits--is the addition of "I'm a Pushover," a high-energy mover that rivals Bobby Byrd and JB himself for exhilarating dance floor power.
This blues cd contains 16 tracks and runs 59min 24sec.
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