{"id":28946,"date":"2015-04-02T22:42:12","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T02:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=28946"},"modified":"2015-04-02T22:42:12","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T02:42:12","slug":"throwback-thursday-kc-the-sunshine-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/throwback-thursday-kc-the-sunshine-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: KC &#038; the Sunshine Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some disco for Throwback Thursday: KC &amp; the Sunshine Band&#8217;s 1975 performance of &#8220;That&#8217;s the Way I Like It.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/83I9El6C47A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I watched this video recently and became obsessed with the dancing horn players. More bands need dancing horn players!<\/p>\n<p>However, in 1984, I was much more interested in Dead or Alive&#8217;s cover of the song. As I&#8217;ve said before, I was madly in love with lead singer Pete Burns &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/llHhiiNnIjY\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/for-grammy-night-six-degrees-of-ringo-starr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pete&#8217;s wife, <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadoralive.net\/newsite\/press\/articles\/lynne2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lynne Corlett<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/for-grammy-night-six-degrees-of-ringo-starr\/\" target=\"_blank\">, whose mane of hair matched Pete&#8217;s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28947\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28947\" class=\"wp-image-28947\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/lynnemenu.jpg\" alt=\"lynnemenu\" width=\"498\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/lynnemenu.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/lynnemenu-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-28947\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pete and Lynne.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That was truly living the dream back in the &#8217;80s. We all wanted an androgynous dude with whom we could share our hairspray, eyeliner and earrings! Lucky bitch!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some disco for Throwback Thursday: KC &amp; the Sunshine Band&#8217;s 1975 performance of &#8220;That&#8217;s the Way I Like It.&#8221; I watched this video recently and became obsessed with the dancing horn players. More bands need dancing horn players! However, in 1984, I was much more interested in Dead or Alive&#8217;s cover of the song&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/throwback-thursday-kc-the-sunshine-band\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642,42,607],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-80s-style","8":"category-music","9":"category-throwback-thursday","10":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28946"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28950,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28946\/revisions\/28950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}