''All in a Night's Work'' is the ninth 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 August 1982 on the

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label.

History

''All in a Night's Work'' sparked a brief return to success for the band, including the hit track " Give It Up", which became a number 1 hit in the UK and Ireland, and reached number 18 on the pop charts in the United States.

Track listing

Personnel

– lead vocals, backing vocals, keyboards, arrangements * Gary King – keyboards, guitars, bass, backing vocals, assisting arrangements * Steven Gordon – guitars * James Magnole – guitars * Richard Finch – bass, drums, percussion, arrangements * Fermin Goytisolo – percussion, assisting arrangements *

Jimmy "Bo" Horne Jimmie Horace Horne Jr. (born September 28, 1949), known as Jimmy "Bo" Horne, is an American singer and musician, whose most successful singles include "Gimme Some" (1975) and "Dance Across the Floor" (1978). Many of Horne's songs have been used ...

– percussion, assisting arrangements * Gary Herbig – saxophones * Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone * Larry Hall – trumpet, horn arrangements *

Jerry Hey Jerry Hey (born 1950) is an American trumpeter, flugelhornist, horn arranger, string arranger, orchestrator and session musician who has played on hundreds of commercial recordings, including Michael Jackson's '' Thriller'', '' Rock with Y ...

– trumpet, horn arrangements * Whit Sidener –

bass clarinet The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common Soprano clarinet, soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B (meaning it is a transposing instrument on which a written C sounds as B), but it plays no ...

(10) * Christine Nield –

flute The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

(10) * Neil Bonsanti –

oboe The oboe ( ) is a type of double-reed woodwind instrument. Oboes are usually made of wood, but may also be made of synthetic materials, such as plastic, resin, or hybrid composites. The most common type of oboe, the soprano oboe pitched in C, ...

(10) * Ken Wadenpfuhl –

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 ...

(10) * Stacey Berkley –

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 ...

(10) * Mike Lewis – horn and string arrangements (10) * Deryl Lampkin – assisting arrangements * Gregory Robinson – assisting arrangements * Deborah Carter – backing vocals * Beverly Champion – backing vocals, assisting arrangements * Denise King – backing 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 ...

– lead and backing vocals (4)

Production

* Harry Wayne Casey – producer, mixing * Richard Finch – producer, mixing * Milan Bogdan – engineer, mixing * David Leonard – horn engineer * Barbara Rooney – assistant horn engineer * Bill Darlington – mix assistant * John Luongo – remixing (1-3) * Nancy Donald – design * Bret Lopez – photography

References

External links

*
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' at

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