His funk-influenced but pop-structured style came to basically epitomize the sound of commercial disco.

The KC of the group, Harry Wayne Casey, started off as a part-time employee at TK before creating his own group and penning major hits for others. KC and the Sunshine Band were definitely Stone’s greatest commercial success story. KC and the Sunshine Band - “Get Down Tonight” (1975) It’s far slower than most of the commercial fare the average listener recognizes as “disco.” But the snare-driven rhythm and four-four dance beat take this definitively out of plain soul territory. Written by Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch of KC and the Sunshine Band, here’s the song that launched a thousand disco ships from the TK stable. A couple are deep cuts recognized most easily by vinyl collectors, while others are, well, still inescapable today. So in that spirit, here are 10 essential TK disco records that Miami can claim. You can read the whole story of the archive, and of TK Records’ other, non-disco hits here - but there’s nothing like a little dance music for getting through the end of the work week. Still, that McCrae track was, inarguably, one of the budding style’s first mainstream hits, peaking at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Again, Miami was a little behind the scenes in New York and even Chicago then, and Rolling Stone had already published a story about disco as a genre in 1973. In that New Times blog, pseudonymous writer Swampdog repeats Stone’s claim that he invented disco when he released George McCrae’s 1974 hit “Rock Your Baby.” That’s not quite true. That means more room for exhibits and archival collections about relatively recent history. HistoryMiami, after all, is taking over the larger Miami Art Museum space when the art museum moves to the forthcoming Museum Park. Miami New Times reported fully on the new project last week, when they announced the creation of the Henry Stone Collection. That came courtesy of Henry Stone and the labels under his TK Records umbrella, all becoming so influential that HistoryMiami is now creating a special collection devoted to it.

Not only did Miami have a disco sound - one influenced heavily, unsurprisingly, by Latin percussion and funk - the city had a full-on disco music industry going. But Miami had its own disco sound - and not just that of the Bee Gees, who did, in fact, record major material like their 1975 album Main Course here. Most histories of disco music focus on New York legends like DJ Larry Levan and clubs like the Paradise Garage, where funk and R&B met a new dance beat. Our hearts go out to the alleged victims and their families.Miami boasts, of course, a reputation as a major clubbing center - but in decades past, the city is also where a big chunk of clubbing music actually got made. '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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