Do You Wanna Go Party
1979 studio album by KC and the Sunshine Band
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Released | June 22, 1979 | |||
Recorded | 1978 | |||
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Length | 33:03 | |||
Label | TK | |||
Producer | H. W. Casey, Richard Finch | |||
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Christgau's Record Guide | B+[3] |
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Do You Wanna Go Party is the sixth studio album by the funk and disco group KC and the Sunshine Band. The album was produced by Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch and was released in June 1979 on the TK label.
History
Do You Wanna Go Party contains the group's last number one hit in the US, "Please Don't Go".[5] The title track was a moderate hit, with more success on the R&B chart, reaching the top ten. The B-side to "Please Don't Go", "I Betcha Didn't Know That", was also a Top 20 R&B chart hit.
Track listing
All tracks are written by Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch, except where noted
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Hooked On Your Love" | 3:55 | |
2. | "I've Got The Feeling" | 3:05 | |
3. | "Ooh, I Like It" | 6:06 | |
4. | "Please Don't Go" | 3:50 | |
5. | "I Betcha Didn't Know That" | Frederick Knight, Sam Dees | 4:08 |
6. | "Que Pasa?" | 5:10 | |
7. | "Do You Wanna Go Party" | 7:29 |
Personnel
- Harry Wayne Casey – keyboards, vocal
- Jerome Smith – guitar
- Richard Finch – bass guitar, drum, percussion
- Robert Johnson – drum
- Fermin Goytisolo – percussion
- Ken Faulk – trumpet
- Vinnie Tanno – trumpet
- Jerry Peel – french horn
- Joe Singer – french horn
- Mike Lewis – tenor saxophone
- Whit Sidener – baritone saxophone
- Beverly Champion – background vocals
- Donna Rhodes – background vocals
- Althea Tate – background vocals
Guest musicians
- Manuel Capote – strings
- David Chappell – strings
- Bogdan Chruszcz – strings
- David Everhart – strings
- Marguerit Haldeman – strings
- Roslind Lang – strings
- Marjorie Lash – strings
- Stuart McDonald – strings
- Susan Oltman – strings
- Robert Phillips – strings
- Debra Spring – strings
- Guy Weddle – strings
- Valerie Vonpechy – harp
- Charles Chalmers – background vocals
- Sandra Chalmers – background vocals
- Teri DeSario – background vocals
References
- ^ Breihan, Tom (March 11, 2020). "The Number Ones: KC & The Sunshine Band's "Please Don't Go"". Stereogum. Retrieved July 14, 2023.
Musically...Do You Wanna Go Party is...the kind of simplistic uptempo funk that had taken the group to the top a half-decade earlier.
- ^ Henderson, Alex. Do You Wanna Go Party review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-10-03.
- ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: K". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 28, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (1998). The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul. Virgin. p. 188.
- ^ "Please Don't Go". Billboard.
External links
- Do You Wanna Go Party at Discogs
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- Harry Wayne "K.C." Casey
- Maria De Crescenzo
- Anika Ellis
- Fermin Goytisolo
- Robert E. Lee
- David Simmons
- Chris Cadenhead
- Jeffery Reeves
- Steve Lashley
- John Reid
- Michael Cordone
- Fernando Diaz
- Miles Fielder
- Kenetha Morris
- Janell Burgess
- Richard Finch
- Jerome Smith
- Robert Johnson
- Oliver C. Brown
- Mike Lewis
- Vinnie Tanno
- Ken Faulk
- Margaret Reynolds
- Beverley Champion
- Jeanette Williams
- Do It Good (1974)
- KC and the Sunshine Band (1975)
- The Sound of Sunshine (1975)
- Part 3 (1976)
- Who Do Ya (Love) (1978)
- Do You Wanna Go Party (1979)
- Space Cadet Solo Flight (1981)
- The Painter (1981)
- All in a Night's Work (1982)
- KC Ten (1984)
- Oh Yeah! (1993)
- I'll Be There for You (2001)
- Yummy (2007)
- Get Down Live! (1995)
- Greatest Hits (1980)
- The Best of KC and the Sunshine Band (1990)
- 25th Anniversary Collection (1999)
- In a Mellow Mood (2005)
- "Get Down Tonight"
- "That's the Way (I Like It)"
- "Rock Your Baby"
- "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty"
- "I'm Your Boogie Man"
- "Keep It Comin' Love"
- "Boogie Shoes"
- "It's the Same Old Song"
- "Please Don't Go"
- "Yes, I'm Ready"
- "Give It Up"
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