– Aria
Yeah, I suppose it’s disco Sunday. Been thinking about that for some reason.
KC was Harry Wayne Casey. He was a record store guy who scored a parttime gig at a small independent record label production company. He took a chance and started the band in the 1970s.
The group went out of and into and out of business with the sort of personality clashes that afflict a lot of human relationships. One stumble came when KC almost died in a car accident. KC retired in the mid 80s, then unretired in the 90s.
I was happy each time the group came back to life.
At the start, guitarist Jerome Smith drove much of the sound that made the Sunshine Band a success. But he was driven out by drug addiction a few years later.
Rumor was he was thinking of rejoining them when he was killed in a freak accident in 2000. He was driving a bulldozer, fell out of the cab, and was crushed.
The group was fading by then, surviving on the nostalgia scene. I wonder how music might have been if Jerome Smith had been there.