![]() ![]() “Please Don’t Go,” the first #1 hit of the ’80s, happens to be the first ballad that the Sunshine Band ever recorded. It took a ballad to temporarily bring them back. In 1978, the year disco hit its commercial peak, the Sunshine Band only managed a couple of singles that scraped the lower rungs of the top 40. (“Keep It Comin’ Love” is a 5.) For nearly three years after that, the Sunshine Band got nowhere near the top 10. The Sunshine Band followed up the 1977 #1 “ I’m Your Boogie Man” with the relatively limp “ Keep It Comin’ Love,” which peaked at #2 later that same year. You don’t carve out a lasting pop career by knocking out subtlety-free bulldozers for years in a row. Their songs were fun, but they were also subtlety-free bulldozers. The Sunshine Band’s sound was maddeningly simple and repetitive. For a hot minute - until the Bee Gees came along and kicked them into the sun - KC & The Sunshine Band were the biggest band in disco. After that, the Sunshine Band themselves did everything they could to capitalize on the sound of the gay-club underground, scoring four quick-succession #1 hits from 1975 to 1977. Bandleaders Henry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch wrote and produced George McCrae’s 1974 smash “ Rock Your Baby,” which I consider to be the first fully intentional disco #1. There’s no one party that can claim responsibility for the disco boom, but KC & The Sunshine Band were, at the very least, early adapters. That’s especially true of the decade’s first #1 single: One of the defining chart-pop groups of the ’70s pulling off a short-lived last-ditch post-disco reinvention. In most respects, especially on the pop charts, the first few years of the ’80s are pretty much ’70s hangover. The popular-imagination version of the ’80s - the day-glo, the architecturally molded hairdos, the cocaine yacht parties - was already starting to take shape in the waning days of the ’70s, but that whole ’80s aesthetic didn’t take over for years. The ’80s didn’t really begin on January 1, 1980. Our hearts go out to the alleged victims and their families.In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. "Those legal issues associated with this case will be dealt with via the judicial system of the state of Ohio. Finch have nothing to do with me nor with KC & The Sunshine Band," Casey said in a statement. However, singles from the band's first album, "Do It Good," were released in 1973 and feature Finch. He left the band in 1980.Ĭasey disputed that Finch co-founded the band, saying that he started it in 1973 and Finch joined a year later. The sheriff's office said detectives continue to interview people and that a grand jury will consider additional charges later.įinch played bass and drums with KC & the Sunshine Band, known for hits such as "That's the Way (I Like It)," "Get Down Tonight" and "I'm Your Boogie Man," and co-wrote many of the band's biggest hits with Harry Wayne "KC" Casey. Finch will be vindicated from these unfounded allegations." We will let due process happen through the legal system and through that, we are sure Mr. "We appreciate your contact, but at this time, we have no comment. The sheriff's office statement lists the offense as gross sexual imposition, a felony. Investigators said they arrested Finch this week. The teenager said he had sexual contact with Richard Finch at Finch's house in Newark, Ohio, the Licking County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.ĭuring an interview with detectives, Finch "disclosed that he did in fact have sexual contact with the juvenile, along with multiple other male teenage juveniles as well ranging from ages 13 to 17," the office said in a statement Wednesday. (CNN) - A member of the 1970s pop music group KC & the Sunshine Band has been arrested after a 17-year-old boy said he had sexual contact with the musician, authorities said. ![]()
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