The Best of KC and the Sunshine Band -- The Poll

adore "Give It Up."

"Give It Up" by a hair over "Boogie Man."

Love the guitar sound on a lot of KC songs... "Keep It Comin' Love" gets my vote for, if nothing else, the bit where the chorus breaks down and KC goes "ohhhh yeaaah."

It's the little things, you know.

Voted for Keep It Comin' Love. The self titled album and Part 3 are both really great albums.

Love "Give It Up". Much better than the somewhat too funky 70s material.

Heard "Please Don't Go" in the supermarket just last week, for the first time in 30 years.

Voted "Sound Your Funky Horn"

"That's The Way (I Like It)"

"Queen of clubs" mainly for the middle eight, at the (ahem) end.

you'd be a fool to overlook 'boogie shoes' imo

Yeah, haven't decided yet

Great poll...Long ago, I would've voted "Get Down Tonight" easy; loved that when it was on the radio (I don't think we thought of it as disco at the time--it was just a weird song with a nasal vocal), and I still loved it through punk and beyond. I never heard K.C.'s later hits until long after the fact, though--I'd stopped paying attention to radio by 1980--so I missed "Keep It Comin' Love" and "Please Don't Go." Today I'd vote those two 1-2, then "Get Down Tonight." In the early '90s, a friend and I approached a somewhat portly K.C. at a club show about writing the forward for a book on the '70s. He feigned interest, and we never heard back.

Very difficult poll for me. Like almost all of these songs, many of them a whole lot. Was tempted to vote with "Queen Of Clubs," just because it's still kind of mysterious to me -- disco before disco existed, almost -- but the one I've always had a special, separate place in my heart for is "Keep It Comin' Love," for being some ultimate bubblegum disco epitome. Going with that.

"Keep It Comin' Love" is pretty great. Does anyone else think "Please Don't Go" works? I do.

another vote for Keep It Comin' Love. what a fucking great tune

Voted "Sound Your Funky Horn"
--honorary mayor of Malibu, California (Myonga Vön Bontee)

Love this record -- song for song possibly the best disco record of the 70s. "Sound Your Funky Horn" or "Keep It Coming Love" -- and please let's not sleep on the monumental "That's the Way (I Like It)."

yeah totally thought thats the way (i like it) would sweep the board here. really pleased to see KICL getting so much love - where did it get to in the UK charts? and US charts for that matter? i kinda vaguely knew of it before checking out the best of but not as much as TTW(ILI)

got these guys mixed up with kool & gang - the gang's best of was a pretty grim experience, v poor disco in the main. in the K & and a crew stakes, it's all about sunshine

7 KC & The Sunshine Band Queen Of Clubs Aug 1974
17 KC & The Sunshine Band Sound Your Funky Horn Nov 1974
21 KC & The Sunshine Band Get Down Tonight Mar 1975
4 KC & The Sunshine Band That's The Way (I Like It) Aug 1975
34 KC & The Sunshine Band I'm So Crazy ('Bout You) Nov 1975
22 KC & The Sunshine Band Shake Your Booty Jul 1976
31 KC & The Sunshine Band Keep It Comin' Love Dec 1976
34 KC & The Sunshine Band Boogie Shoes May 1978
3 KC & The Sunshine Band Please Don't Go Dec 1979
1 KC & The Sunshine Band Give It Up Jul 1983

cheers mark

only got to #31?! thats a crime. and boogie shoes even lower, what in the world

Boogie Shoes was the original b-side to "Shake your booty"

went keep it comin'

I have fond memories of hearing "Give It Up" during pregame warmups at a Pittsburgh Maulers-New Jersey Generals United States Football League game at Three Rivers Stadium on Easter Sunday 1984. So, it edges "Sound Your Funky Horn" and the others, although it's a close call with so many strong cuts.

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shake shake shake and give it up need switching

amazing run. voted Get Down Tonight

"I'm Your Boogie Man" was robbed. The 1-2 with "Keep It Comin' Love" is fabtastic: last two tracks on the Part 3 album, with KICL released as the follow-up single to IYBM - these songs are twins separated at birth, but the public was right, it was a 1-2 alright: "Boogie Man" hit #1, "Keep" #2.

The low-key guitar/tambourine/piano intro, "one-two-three-...!", the interplay between KC's horny vocals and the horn riffs, the guitar/piano breakdown, the coda: "I'm your boogie man, a-ha" times 4, KC's "hooo!" and how it's answered by the backing singers: there aren't many songs in the world that can make me happier than this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ee3C2m3OXE

(inspired by the bump of the Hues Corporation thread, also: more AVRO's Toppop content)

Their Billboard chart history is unusual - five number 1s, and a number 2, but none of their other 70s singles in the top 30. The hits weren't in a row, either, they interspersed big hits and some that didn't even chart. It shows to what an extent they lived or died song by song - apparently radio was ignoring the minor songs as well.
This compilation contains one song that apparently was never a single: "All I Want", originally from their 1980 Greatest Hits, their attempt at a New Wave/funk crossover ballad, I guess. If I didn't vote for that, I might have chosen "Do You Wanna Go Party".