August 30, 1975 –
KC & The Sunshine Band’s single Get Down Tonight reached No. 1 on the Billboard Charts (the first of five chart-toppers for the group,) on this date.
Written and produced by Harry Wayne (KC) Casey and his writing partner (and bass player) Richard Finch. Casey and Finch would sneak into nightclubs in the Miami area and get a taste of that culture, which influenced their sound. 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 stated that he was “always doing weird science” in those days, referring to his various experiments with sound.
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