Do You Wanna Go Party Explained

Do You Wanna Go Party
Type:	studio
Artist:	KC and the Sunshine Band
Cover:	Doyouwannagopartyalbum.jpg
Released:	June 22, 1979
Recorded:	1978
Genre:	Disco funk^[1]
Length:	33:03
Label:	TK
Producer:	H. W. Casey, Richard Finch
Prev Title:	Who Do Ya (Love)
Prev Year:	1978
Next Title:	Greatest Hits
Next Year:	1980

Do You Wanna Go Party is the sixth studio album by the funk and disco group KC and the Sunshine Band. The album was produced by Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch and was released in June 1979 on the TK label.

History

Do You Wanna Go Party contains the group's last number one hit in the US, "Please Don't Go".^[2] The title track was a moderate hit, with more success on the R&B chart, reaching the top ten. The B-side to "Please Don't Go", "I Betcha Didn't Know That", was also a Top 20 R&B chart hit.

Personnel

• Harry Wayne Casey – keyboards, vocal
• Jerome Smith – guitar
• Richard Finch – bass guitar, drum, percussion
• Robert Johnson – drum
• Fermin Goytisolo – percussion
• Ken Faulk – trumpet
• Vinnie Tanno – trumpet
• Jerry Peel – french horn
• Joe Singer – french horn
• Mike Lewis – tenor saxophone
• Whit Sidener – baritone saxophone
• Beverly Champion – background vocals
• Donna Rhodes – background vocals
• Althea Tate – background vocals

Guest musicians

• Manuel Capote – strings
• David Chappell – strings
• Bogdan Chruszcz – strings
• David Everhart – strings
• Marguerit Haldeman – strings
• Roslind Lang – strings
• Marjorie Lash – strings
• Stuart McDonald – strings
• Susan Oltman – strings
• Robert Phillips – strings
• Debra Spring – strings
• Guy Weddle – strings
• Valerie Vonpechy – harp
• Charles Chalmers – background vocals
• Sandra Chalmers – background vocals
• Teri DeSario – background vocals

External links

• Do You Wanna Go Party at Discogs

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tom . Breihan . The Number Ones: KC & The Sunshine Band’s "Please Don’t Go". . March 11, 2020 . Musically...Do You Wanna Go Party is...the kind of simplistic uptempo funk that had taken the group to the top a half-decade earlier.. July 14, 2023.
2. Web site: Billboard. Please Don't Go.