On this day in music history: August 28, 1976 - (Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty by KC & The Sunshine Band hits #1 on the Billboard R&B singles chart for 4 weeks, also topping the Hot 100 for 1 week on September 11, 1976. Written and produced by Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch, it is the third chart topping single for the Florida based R&B band. Issued as the first single from the bands Part 3 album, it will be one of three top five singles (Keep It Comin Love and Im Your Boogie Man) to be released from it. The original single release of Shake Your Booty is backed with the track Boogie Shoes which will also become a dancefloor favorite and hit in its own right (#29 R&B, #35 Pop), when it is included on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack in 1977. It will win the band along with all of the other artists featured on the album a Grammy Award for Album Of The Year in 1978. (Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty will become KC & The Sunshine Bands third million selling single one year to the week after their first number one Get Down Tonight.
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 23:00:04 +0000
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