As well as in the UK and USA, KC And The Sunshine Band enjoyed widespread international chart and sales success in many other countries including Holland, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa.

Their songs have been covered and sampled to provide hit singles for many different artists including Dead Or Alive, KWS, Bloodhound Gang, Basshunter, Bamboo and Cut ‘N’ Move.

The Ultimate Collection is a 3CD compilation featuring a comprehensive selection of the band’s singles and B-sides along with an extensive selection of extended versions and remixes by one of the best loved, most successful and enduring funk and soul bands of the 1970s and 1980s.

Including 55 tracks released by the T.K. Records, Jay-Boy and Epic labels including extended versions and remixes of some of KC And The Sunshine Band’s best known songs, such as ‘That’s The Way (I Like It)’, ‘Get Down Tonight’ and ‘Do You Wanna Go Party,’ as well as many B-sides, it also features all their ten UK Top 40 hit singles: including the Top 10 hits ‘Queen Of Clubs’, ‘That’s The Way (I Like it)’, ‘Please Don’t Go’ and the No.1 smash hit single ‘Give It Up’.

Disc 1:
1. Sound Your Funky Horn
2. Why Don’t We Get Together
3. Blow Your Whistle
4. I’m Gonna Do Something Good To You
5. I’m A Pushover
6. You Don’t Know
7. Queen Of Clubs
8. Do It Good
9. Get Down Tonight
10. I’m So Crazy (‘Bout You)
11. Boogie Shoes
12. That’s The Way (I Like It)
13. Ain’t Nothin’ Wrong
14. I Like To Do It
15. Come On In
16. I’m Your Boogie Man
17. Wrap Your Arms Around Me
18. (Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty
19. Keep It Comin’ Love
20. Baby I Love You (Yes I Do)
21. Do You Feel Alright (Single Edit)
22. Sho-Nuff’
23. I Will Love You Tomorrow

This action-packed disco-funk-R&B-pop collection of music opens on the swinging grooves of Sound Your Funky Horn, the soul funk flow of Why Don’t We Get Together and the funky hook within Blow Your Whistle, and then brings us the sweetly grooved I’m Gonna Do Something Good To You, the funk overtones amid mid-’70s disco track I’m A Pushover, the fun You Don’t Know, the bass line and brass accompaniments OF Queen Of Clubs, and then come the dance floor scorcher Do It Good, a song that is the very essence of ’70s disco-pop music, Get Down Tonight, and both the cut where KC meets Motown, I’m So Crazy (‘Bout You) and the highly infectious Boogie Shoes.

Along next is the propulsive dancefloor smash hit That’s The Way (I Like It) and the top track Ain’t Nothin’ Wrong, and they are in turn followed by the flashback to good times on I Like To Do It, tracks that saw them at the height of their powers, Come On In and I’m Your Boogie Man, the jam that is Wrap Your Arms Around Me, before the monster hit (Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty is brought forth, along with the smooth grooves of Keep It Comin’ Love, the super disco of Baby I Love You (Yes I Do), their lesser known classic disco cut Do You Feel Alright (Single Edit), the underplayed, forgotten classic Sho-Nuff’, the first disc rounding out with the beautiful sing-along I Will Love You Tomorrow.

Disc 2:
1. Who Do Ya Love
2. So Glad
3. I Get Lifted
4. It’s The Same Old Song
5. Let’s Go Party
6. Do You Wanna Go Party
7. Come To My Island
8. Let’s Go Rock And Roll
9. I’ve Got The Feeling
10. Please Don’t Go
11. I Betcha Didn’t Know That
12. It Happens Every Night (Single version)
13. Stand Up
14. Love Me
15. Don’t Say No
16. All Through The Night (Single version)
17. Give It Up
18. It’s Too Hard To Say Goodbye
19. Party With Your Body
20. Something’s Happening
21. Summer Nights

Slipping the second CD into the player and this one opens with the beautiful love song Who Do Ya Love, the happy, chilled out cut So Glad and the coldest groove of I Get Lifted, and then brings us the groovealicious, and highly addictive It’s The Same Old Song, which is followed by the ultimate disco of Let’s Go Party, the funky Do You Wanna Go Party, the happy music within Come To My Island, and then the fantastic Let’s Go Rock And Roll, the ultimate dancefloor disco of I’ve Got The Feeling, and the free flowing, masterfully crafted, and since much-covered hit Please Don’t Go.

Up next is the harmonized rare gem I Betcha Didn’t Know That and the moody It Happens Every Night (Single version) and they are in turn backed by the sway funk of Stand Up, the decadent Love Me, the impassioned Don’t Say No, and then comes the cool breeze of All Through The Night (Single version), the get up and dance vibe of the melodically ardent Give It Up, the lovely jam It’s Too Hard To Say Goodbye, this second disc rounding out on the serious dance cut Party With Your Body, the turbo charged Something’s Happening, and the excellent Summer Nights.

Disc 3:
1. I’m A Pushover
2. That’s The Way (I Like It) (Club Mix)
3. That’s The Way (I Like It) (Dub Style)
4. That’s The Way (I Like It) (Re-Master Mix Extended)
5. That’s The Way (I Like It) (New York Style Mix)
6. That’s The Way (I Like It) (Original T.K. Mix)
7. Get Down Tonight (Original T.K. Mix)
8. Keep It Comin’ Love
9. Do You Feel All Right
10. Do You Wanna Go Party (Extended Version)
11. Do You Wanna Go Party (Special Disco Mix)

This third disc is a collection of different mixes of KC hits, but predominately That’s The Way (I Like It), which gets four listening experiences, the one that stands out for me being the one that leads the way, the club mix.

Other highlights include the Original T.K. Mix of Get Down Tonight, the toe tapping Keep It Comin’ Love, and a Special Disco Mix of the still fabulous Do You Wanna Go Party.

Packaged in a deluxe 3CD digipack it also includes a fully illustrated 20-page booklet featuring extensive sleeve notes by writer Michael Silvester.

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