The Sunshine Band - Black Water Gold (Petko Turner Edit) Funk Monster

The Sunshine Band - Black Water Gold Simple DJ Edit By Petko Turner
https://hypeddit.com/track/lflb3v The seeds of KC & The
Sunshine Band were planted when two South Florida boys, Harry Wayne
Casey and Richard Finch met while working at the attic studio of
T.K. Records, above the warehouse of Tones Distributors. Rick had
worked his way up to assisting producers, while Harry's duties
included processing returns and boxing up records, and sometimes
playing keyboards in recording sessions. It was Casey’s idea for
him and Finch to pool their skills. "Everybody else had a team
together already", says Rick. "He found out I played bass and
drums, and I found out he played keyboards, and when the studio was
empty in the evenings, we would go up there and find out what kind
of music would happen. A lot of people would throw tape away
because they couldn’t figure out how to make the machine erase
properly, Rick recalls. It was expensive, so I would take it out of
the trash can, wind it up on the reel, clean it up, and use that
for recording". Not only were the boys thrifty, but, thanks to the
sessions they had already played in the studio, they were also
fast. It didn’t take much experimenting for the two to get their
own eclectic sound together. KC & The Sunshine Band released
two singles from their first album, "Do It Good" and hit the
R&B charts when "Blow Your Whistle" went to #27 in the fall of
’73 and "Sound Your Funky Horn" made it to #21 in early ’74. The
first real sign that the Casey/Finch sound was really clicking came
in September of 1974, when "Queen Of Clubs" reached the U.K. Top
10, and the Sunshine Band was in demand for live gigs all around
the country. This was good news, of course. But the best news was
yet to come courtesy of one George McCrae and a song he wrote
called "Rock Your Baby". As studio musicians, Casey and Finch
recorded the rhythm track in just 45 minutes, with just one
additional player, Jerome Smith, on guitar. Company brass, Henry
Stone and Steve Alaimo felt the song had potential and offered it
to Gwen McCrae, who passed on it. Then, George McCrae, who happened
into the studio, heard the instrumental and in a mere two takes,
put down his own vocals. The song was released, and George McCrae
had a number one hit on his hands. Download for free on The Artist
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