''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 "That's the Way (I Like It)", "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty", "I'm Your Boogie Man", "K ...

. 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 musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for his band, KC and the Sunshine Band, as a producer of several hits for other art ...

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

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keyboards Keyboard may refer to: Text input * Keyboard, part of a typewriter * Computer keyboard ** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping ** Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware Music * Musi ...

, vocal *Jerome Smith –

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

* Richard Finch –

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

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 she ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

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

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

*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 ...

*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 (while th ...

*Whit Sidener –

baritone saxophone The baritone saxophone 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. It is the lowest-pitched saxophone in common use - the bass, contra ...

*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 Valerie Vonpechy Whitcup (born 11 December 1947) is an American composer, harpist, and educator. Vonpechy was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She graduated from Baldwin-Wallace College and the University of Miami, and studied harp with Edward Vito, the p ...

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harp The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of 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 orche ...

Charles Chalmers Charles Chalmers is an American saxophonist, session musician, backup singer, 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 tho ...

– background vocals *Sandra Chalmers – background vocals *

Teri DeSario Teri is a given name directly from Teresa. Notable people with the name include: * Teri Ann Linn (born 1961), American actress and singer * Teri Anulewicz, American politician * Teri Austin (born 1957), Canadian actress * Teri Byrne (born 1972), ...

– background vocals

References

External links

*
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