THE YEAR IS 1975!
- KC stated in an interview “‘Get Down Tonight’ was originally called ‘What You Want Is What You’ll Get,'” he said. “A lot of times I will have an idea of a song, and during recording I’ll just sing whatever comes into my mind and then go back, and if I don’t like that, will change it to another complete title. I do it a little bit differently now. I start with titles most of the time and already have the idea of what the title is going to be. But for that particular song is was different.”
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The song features a distinctive introduction, in which a recorded guitar solo is rendered at double speed over a normal-speed guitar line in the background. After observing someone else slowing down a tape machine, Richard Finch had the idea of using this technique to create the guitar riff, as a way of adding to the song something “that really keeps the buzz, that really keeps the excitement going all the way through without being too artificial sounding.” Finch states that he was “always doing weird science” in those days, referring to his various experiments with sound.
- The band took its name from lead vocalist Harry Wayne Casey’s last name (‘KC’) and the ‘Sunshine Band’ from KC’s home state of Florida.
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