Description
KC And The Sunshine Bands’ 1981 album The Painter has been Expanded and on CD for the First Time Ever
Expanded with 3 Bonus Tracks
Produced by Harry Wayne Casey & Richard Finch
Liner Notes by Michael Coleman
Re-Mastered from the Original Master Tapes by Sean Brennan, at Battery Studio’s, New York
The Painter is the eighth studio album by the funk and disco group KC And The Sunshine Band, which was produced by Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch. The album was released in 1981 on the Epic label.
The Painter became KC And The Sunshine Bands’ pop-focused music album with the notable track, the ballad “All Through the Night.” The song was co-written by Bruce Roberts and Donna Summer and was first recorded by Summer for her 1979 album Bad Girls.
There are some great cuts on the album such as the opener, “Stand Up,” which would not have been out of place on an earlier Miami Sound Machine or Gloria Estefan album. The single, “Love Me,” has one of the most saavy choruses and features a feel-good refrain.
Built around a soulful undercurrent of organ and the typically excellent brass flourishes the Sunshine Band is known for as well as being sung in Casey’s trademark falsetto, “Love Me” could so very easily have brought them back into hit R&B territory.
As KC & the Sunshine Band signed to Epic during Michael Jackson’s legendary run with the label — The Painter was released as Jackson was preparing to record his landmark Thriller album.
Let’s enjoy The Painter… and don’t feel at all guilty if you feel the need to “Shake, Shake Shake Your Booty” while you listen…
Tracklist1. Stand Up
2. Don’t Say No
3. It Happens Every Night
4. Go Now Before There’s Trouble
5. The Painter
6. Sway
7. Summernights
8. Baby, I’m Yours
9. Love Me
10. All Through The Night
11. Something’s Happening
BONUS TRACKS
12. It Happens Every Night (Short Version)
13. It Happens Every Night (Long Version)
14. All Through The Night (Single Version)
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