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Please Don't GoAtomic Recordings had planned to release a cover version of KC and The Sunshine Band's classic "Please Don't Go" (EMI Records). It was originally anticipated that this would be released in time for summer 2009.

Atomic sampled the vocals from the Double-You version (DWA Records). Whilst EMI and KC & The Sunshine Band both cleared use of the lyrics, DWA were a bit less forthcoming. In the midst of all this, DWA released their own new version of the track "DJ Ross vs Double You"....after all, they did own the copyright in the vocal recording which we had hoped to use in Atomic's release.

Atomic had been working on recording our own version of the lyrics...we think it's best to wait till 2010 to release this track now...after all, our version of the number one record has got a summer feel to it, despite the original topping the charts in January 1980!

KC & The Sunshine Band was formed by Harry Wayne Casey ("KC"), a record store employee and part-timer at TK Records in Miami. An introduction by Clarence Reid through a mutual friend was the beginning of the Casey-Finch musical connection. The initial members were just Casey and Finch (first starting out as songwriting collaborators), but Casey soon added guitarist Jerome Smith (June 18, 1953 - July 28, 2000) and drummer Robert Johnson, both TK studio musicians.

The first few songs, "Blow Your Whistle" (September 1973) and "Sound Your Funky Horn" (February 1974), were released as singles, and did well enough on the U.S. R&B chart and overseas that TK wanted a follow up single and album. However, while working on demos for KC & the Sunshine Band the song, "Rock Your Baby" (George McCrae) was created featuring Smith on guitar, and became a number one hit in 51 countires in mid 1974. The band's "Queen of Clubs", which featured uncredited vocals by McCrae, was a hit in the UK, peaking at #7, and they went on tour there in 1975.

With the release of the self titled triple platinum second album KC and the Sunshine Band in 1975 came the group's first major U.S. hit with "Get Down Tonight". It topped the R&B chart in April and the Billboard Hot 100 in August. "That's the Way (I Like It)" also became a number one hit in November 1975 and the group did well at the 1976 Grammy Awards. The 1976 album Part 3 yielded two number one singles: "I'm Your Boogie Man", "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty" and "Keep It Comin' Love" peaked at number two. Their success lasted until the fifth album; their last chart topping hit was "Please Don't Go" in December 1979, hitting #1 for one week in January 1980, and becoming the first number one hit of the 1980s.

 

 

 
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