1974 George McCrae " Rock Your Baby"
1974
This was voted the #1 Single of the Year by Rolling Stone magazine
"TK Records owner Henry Stone recalled in 1000 UK #1 Hits by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh, "I suggested to Harry that Gwen McCrae (George McRae's wife) might be a good contender to cut the track, but just then George walked in and I then told Harry to let George have a go first."
One of the first hits of the disco era, this sold over 11 million copies worldwide. The song was written by Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch of KC & The Sunshine Band, and it formed the basis for their wildly successful writing and performing partnership which yielded five more US #1 hits and pioneered the disco sound.
Casey and Finch worked for TK Records, which was a distributor and a studio, complete with a house band that would become KC & The Sunshine Band. One of the artists who recorded at TK was Timmy Thomas, who had a hit with "
Why Can't We Live Together?"
Finch told Songfacts:
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His organ was left up in the studio, and 'Rock Your Baby' became born unto this crazy drum machine that was inside of this Lowry organ that he left there. I used to use that as a tempo map, and I would play along with the drum machine.
In the beginning it would hide my errors, but it would also teach me to be a better drummer, because I was paying attention to it that closely. Then we would build on that.
We had a 1-inch 8-track machine and I had a cheap Japanese bass. We were just recording and recording and recording.
And one night, this one track came out like better than anything else. It was like God was in the building or something - we had been blessed. It was like the hunger and desire was so incredibly overwhelming that some magical moment happened in there. We knew to build on that track.
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/george-mccrae/rock-your-baby
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