Part 3

by Alex HendersonArguably K.C. & The Sunshine Band's best album and certainly one of its most successful, Part 3 will always be closely identified with the disco era. But for all the disco appeal that infectious gems like "Shake Your Booty," "I Like to Do It," "Baby I Love You" and "Wrap Your Arms Around Me" have, they also illustrate that this was very much a funk band. In fact, when the Floridians toured with the Ohio Players in 1976, it seemed a logical combination. Perhaps the most overtly disco-sounding hit on this album was "Keep It Coming Love," a fine example of K.C. at his most charismatic. In 1995, Rhino reissued Part 3 on CD as Part 3...And More, adding some of K.C.'s early-'80s solo work as bonus tracks. The songs demonstrate that while KC's popularity had faded, his unapologetic funkiness definitely hadn't.