Earlier this week, Harry Wayne Casey, better known as “KC” of KC and the Sunshine Band, was on his way to the gym when he got a text from a buddy telling him “Get Down Tonight” was featured on an episode of the popular HBO show “True Detective.”
“And then I got to the gym, and someone said, “Did you hear your song was on ‘True Detective’ last night? I said, ‘Yeah, I heard that,’” said Casey, a lifelong Floridian who lives in Miami.
It’s far from the first time “Get Down Tonight,” a No. 1 smash from the summer of 1975, has appeared on a soundtrack. “Forrest Gump” used it. So did “Sid and Nancy,” among others.
And that’s one song. The band’s other chart-toppers — “That’s the Way (I Like It),” (Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty,” “I’m Your Boogie Man” and “Boogie Shoes” — have been played on more than 200 soundtracks.
Not to mention at that wedding reception you attended last weekend, probably.
“For music that was so dismissed by critics, it’s just always there,” Casey said.
It is, and KC and the Sunshine Band are bringing it to Kodak Center, 200 W. Ridge Road, for a live performance at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 1, as part of a 50th anniversary tour.