KC and the Sunshine Band (1975)

Created by former stock boys Harry W. Casey and Richard Finch at the Miami based TK label by in 1973. KC's first album on TK, Do It Good (1974), had boasted extremely funky arrangements and sizable hits in the form of Queen of Clubs and 'Sound Your Funky Horn'. Meanwhile their composition/productions for others, like George McCrae's Rock Your Baby which became an even bigger worldwide hit, lay at the more commercial end of the spectrum. The success of their second album came from finding a halfway point between the two.

The best example is also by far the best known song on the album. That's the Way (I Like It), with its infectious vocals and gimmicky chant , is supported by a tight rhythm arrangement. The same is true of Get Down Tonight (recently sampled by Bamboogie), in some ways superior with its offbeat synthesizer solo interspersed throughout, no doubt influenced by songs like the Ohio Players Funky Worm. The album also included Boogie Shoes, Ain't Nothing Wrong, utilised by the Digable Planets on Where I'm From, and What Makes You Happy. Then there's I Get Lifted, a re-recording of a song they originally used with George McCrae. Here it's simplified to a basic pure funk groove so potent it was used unaltered by Redhead Kingpin in 1989 for his top 20 hit Do The Right Thing.