King Harvest - Dancing in the Moonlight

King Harvest - Dancing in the Moonlight

"Dancing in the Moonlight" is the title song on the 1973 King Harvest album.[1] The track was released as a single and it reached #13 on the Billboard Hot 100. They released other singles but these were never able to match the success of "Dancing in the Moonlight". The track used a Wurlitzer electric piano throughout.

The song was written in 1968 by Sherman Kelly,[1] whose brother, Wells Kelly - King Harvest's drummer in the early 1970s - introduced the song to the band. It was originally recorded in 1969 by the American band, Boffalongo, which included Sherman Kelly (who sang lead on this original recording of his own composition[2]) and future King Harvest frontman, Doc Robinson. Wells Kelly later became the original drummer for Orleans. Meanwhile, King Harvest recorded and released "Dancing in the Moonlight" as a single, with "Lady, Come On Home" on the B-side, while the band was based in Paris. Steve Cutler, a jazz drummer from New York City (standing on the pole in the cover picture), played drums on the tracks and toured with the band in France and the UK. The group disbanded after six months, and the single languished for a year, until it was bought and released worldwide by Perception Records.

The song's first line, "We get it on most every night" is often misheard as "We get it almost every night"

A cover version was released in the UK in 1973 by the singing and dancing act, Young Generation, but despite airplay, it failed to chart. The song finally charted in the UK in March 2000, after being covered in 1999 by Toploader.

The song was played as a wake up call for Daniel M. Tani, an astronaut on board the STS-120: Discovery mission headed for the International Space Station, on the early morning of Thursday 24 October 2007.

"Dancing in the Moonlight" was recently licensed by Wal-Mart for their 2008 TV commercial season in the US.

Thin Lizzy's 1977 UK single release - "Dancin' In The Moonlight (It's Caught Me In Its Spotlight)" should not be confused with the King Harvest song, as it is a completely different track.

The King Harvest version is often wrongly primarily attributed to Van Morrison or Elvis Costello, due to incorrect labeling on various digital download services. Neither of these artists have actually recorded a version of "Dancing in the Moonlight." The original recording of the song is also sometimes misattributed to Toploader, who released a cover of the song in 2000 that reached the Top Ten in the UK Singles Chart, higher than any previous version. The song also appeared in the movie A Walk To Remember, although it was the cover version by Toploader. A musical number of the song is featured in Richard Wenk's comedic short, Dracula Bites the Big Apple.

This song has been covered by a number of artists. These include:-

Aswad on their 2002 album Cool Summer Reggae
Young Generation on a 1973 single
Liza Minnelli on her 1973 album The Singer
Joe "Bean" Esposito on his 1996 album Treated and Released
Baha Men on 1994's Kalik
Masters Of The Obvious
The Keane Brothers — who created a disco version in 1979
Toploader on their Onka's Big Moka album
Orleans
My Morning Jacket
Jack Wagner
Ted Raimi (in the Xena: Warrior Princess musical episode, Lyre, Lyre, Hearts on Fire)
Switchfoot
Alyson Stoner

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[86burzum]

nice song.....it is something with the originals that cannot be replaced(although this is also not the original!!),but still love the old songs man

[93casinoroyale]

Great song

[sonpat11]

cool

[snidwid]

Love this song!

[rdx506]

Boffolongo ???

[grenztruppen3]

ja das ist der beste

[agnt0ne]

this anit no reggae lolz

[0gel]

@gwenneke123 umm.. you are from Rebecca Black land ?

[davide879]

@gwenneke123  you are very stupid

[quibb666]

@Mavinchen35 this is the original and it's not reggae :3