Give It Up (KC song) : Ask Biography

Single information

Name

Give It Up

Artist

KC and the Sunshine Band

Album

All in a Night's Work and KC Ten

Released

1983

Genre

Post-disco

Length

4:13
4:00 (7")

Label

Meca Records

Songwriter

Harry Wayne Casey

Producer

KC and the Sunshine Band

Previous single

"Don't Run (Come Back To Me)"
(1982)

Next single

"Are You Ready?"
(1984)

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"Give It Up" was a UK number one single for three weeks in August 1983 for KC and the Sunshine Band, although it was simply credited as KC in many countries, including the US. It went on to become the 18th best-selling single of the year in the UK. It was the last and most successful of the act's 10 hits in the UK, and was somewhat of a comeback hit in the United States. Following the backlash against many disco artists on the charts in the early 1980s, the song peaked at #18 in the US in January 1984.

In recent years, the song has been turned into a sporting chant in England and Scotland, with Nicky Butt (Manchester United and later Newcastle United), Jobi McAnuff (Reading and formerly Crystal Palace), Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (Wolves), Wes Hoolahan (Norwich City), David Connolly (Southampton), Tommy Spurr (Sheffield Wednesday), Samir Nasri(Arsenal), although this version does not work due to Nasri's surname not having the required three syllables for this chant to work as it only has two - Nas and Ri, Gordon Greer (Brighton & Hove Albion), Simon Cox (West Bromwich Albion), Alec Ward (OUAFC), Rafael van der Vaart (Tottenham Hotspur), and Paulo Sergio (Heart of Midlothian), as well as in Danish football with André Bergdølmo (FCK) during his tenure there, all being chanted by supporters. Aberdeen's latest signing Kari Arnason is tipped for glory at his new club after fans realised this was the player they needed to have a "Give It Up"-based song to chant. Aberdeen are now surely favourites for the 2011-2012 spl title. During the 2010 Mosconi Cup in London, the home crowd chanted the chorus to Nick Van Den Berg. During the 2011 PDC World Darts Championship, the chant was also used for Dutch player Vincent van der Voort.

The song was featured in the low-budget 1986 horror movie Killer Party.

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