"Afternoon Delight" is a 1976 song by the Starland Vocal Band, written by Bill Danoff, featuring close harmony and sexually suggestive lyrics. It became a number-one U.S. Billboard Hot 100 single o...
"Afternoon Delight" is a 1976 song by the Starland Vocal Band, written by Bill Danoff, featuring close harmony and sexually suggestive lyrics. It became a number-one U.S. Billboard Hot 100 single on July 10, 1976.
Concurrent to the Starland Vocal Band's version, country singer Johnny Carver had a Top 10 version of his own on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.
In the 1990s and 2000s, "Afternoon Delight" was featured in several film and television shows, albeit often in an ironic sense, such as Get a Life (TV series) (Chris Wins a Celebrity), Good Will Hunting, PCU, Boogie Nights, The Rules of Attraction, The Spirit of '76, Starsky & Hutch, Arrested Development (as part of a plot point in the episode Afternoon Delight), The Simpsons (The Fat and the Furriest), Family Guy (in an alternate scene from the episode Stewie Kills Lois), Rules of Engagement, Complete Savages, South Park and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy; it was featured prominently in a 1991 episode of Murphy Brown, where a number of the characters flashed back to the Bicentennial Celebration in 1976. In 1983, The Circle Jerks also covered this song as one of the six cover versions on "Golden Shower of Hits (Jerks on 45)", which appears on their third album with the same title.
The name for the song comes from the name of a special menu of the same name at Clyde's restaurant in Georgetown.[
According to the author, it was not an "all-out sex song" but rather one that "hinted at sex."
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Ohhh what memories this brings back. I had a fling with my boss this summer and we used to get some "Afternoon Delight" at lunchtime in the park, my apt. where ever we could sneak away to. Those were the fun days.
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Just sayin'.