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KC and the Sunshine Band ist eine US-amerikanische Discoband aus Florida, die R&B mit Funk und Latin Grooves zu Partymusik im Miami Sound mischte. Sie wurde in der zweiten Hälfte der 70er Jahre vor allem durch ihre Hits „That's the Way (I Like It)“, „(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty“, „Give It Up“, „Get Down Tonight“ und „Please Don’t Go“ bekannt. Zwar bestand die Gruppe fast durchgehend aus sieben bis elf (meist schwarzen) Musikern, den Kern der Band machten aber die beiden (weißen) Produzenten und Songschreiber Harry Wayne Casey (Spitzname: K.C.) und Richard Finch aus. .
Orange Sunshine are catching the very soul of the motor-blues garage-punk and acid proto-hardrock era of the late '60's and the early 70's. With band members derived from several Dutch '80's and '90's garage-, doom-, acid-, surf-, noise-, punk- and hard-rock bands (such as Top Gear, Panty Boy, Twin Earth, the White Trash Minstrels and Sunwheel from the metro area of The Hague/Den Haag and Cromlech from Arnhem, check out www.motorwolf.com or www.godspill.net for more information) Orange Sunshine started in a squat in The Hague early 1969 as a traditional 3-piece power blues band playing a mix of blues covers...
Southern California soft-pop quintet the Sunshine Company comprised singer Mary Nance, singer/guitarist Maury Manseau, guitarist/violinist Douglas Mark, bassist Larry Sims and drummer Merle Bregante. Signing to Imperial Records, in the fall of 1967 the group issued its debut LP Happy Is the Sunshine Company, scoring their lone Top 40 hit with the single "Back on the Street Again." The album also generated the minor hit "Happy," although with their self-titled sophomore effort the Sunshine Company's commercial momentum dissipated, and in the wake of their third LP, 1968's Sunshine and Shadows, the group disbanded (although rumors of a completed but unreleased...
Chloe Sunshine will tug on your strings with her delicately lovely voice by singing about the harsh sadness of losing someone to the feeling of being absolutely free. .