''Do You Wanna Go Party'' is the sixth studio album by the funk and disco group

KC and the Sunshine Band KC and the Sunshine Band is an American disco and funk band that was founded in 1973 in Hialeah, Florida. Their best-known songs include the hits " Get Down Tonight", " That's the Way (I Like It)", "⁠ (Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty", ...

. The album was produced by

Harry Wayne Casey Harry Wayne Casey (born January 31, 1951), better known by his stage name KC, is an American record producer, musician, and songwriter. He is best known for his band, KC and the Sunshine Band, with co-founder Richard Finch (musician), Richard Fi ...

and Richard Finch and was released in June 1979 on the TK label.

History

''Do You Wanna Go Party'' contains the group's last number one hit in the US, " Please Don't Go". The title track was a moderate hit, with more success on the R&B chart, reaching the top ten. The B-side to " Please Don't Go", "I Betcha Didn't Know That", was also a Top 20 R&B chart hit.

Track listing

Personnel

– keyboards, vocal *Jerome Smith –

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

* Richard Finch –

bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

drum The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

*Robert Johnson – drum *Fermin Goytisolo – percussion *Ken Faulk –

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...

*Vinnie Tanno – trumpet *Jerry Peel –

french horn The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most o ...

*Joe Singer – french horn *Mike Lewis –

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (whi ...

*Whit Sidener –

baritone saxophone The baritone saxophone (sometimes abbreviated to "bari sax") is a member of the saxophone family of instruments, larger (and lower-pitched) than the tenor saxophone, but smaller (and higher-pitched) than the bass saxophone, bass. It is the lowe ...

*Beverly Champion – background vocals *Donna Rhodes – background vocals *Althea Tate – background vocals Guest musicians *Manuel Capote –

strings String or strings may refer to: *String (structure), a long flexible structure made from threads twisted together, which is used to tie, bind, or hang other objects Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Strings'' (1991 film), a Canadian anim ...

*David Chappell – strings *Bogdan Chruszcz – strings *David Everhart – strings *Marguerit Haldeman – strings *Roslind Lang – strings *Marjorie Lash – strings *Stuart McDonald – strings *Susan Oltman – strings *Robert Phillips – strings *Debra Spring – strings *Guy Weddle – strings * Valerie Vonpechy –

harp The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orchestras or ...

Charles Chalmers Charles Chalmers is an American saxophonist, backup vocalist, songwriter and producer. He has written several hit songs for many recording artists, and has also arranged and performed on many Grammy winning recordings. Seven of those recordings a ...

– background vocals *Sandra Chalmers – background vocals *

Teri DeSario Teri Lynn DeSario (born November 27, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter from Miami, Florida. Career DeSario worked within several music genres out of high school. She was a vocalist and played both recorder and harp from 1970–1977 with ...

– background vocals

References

External links

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