Dancing in the Moonlight
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| Single by King Harvest | |
| from the album Dancing in the Moonlight | |
| B-side | "Lady, Come On Home" |
| Released | July 9, 1972 |
| Recorded | 1972 |
| Genre | Pop rock |
| Length | 2:57 |
| Label | Perception Records – P-515 |
| Writer(s) | Sherman Kelly |
| Producer(s) | Dave Robinson |
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| Single by Toploader | ||||||||||
| from the album Onka's Big Moka | ||||||||||
| Released | February 2000 November 2000 (1st reissue) January 2007 (2nd reissue) |
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| Format | CD single, digital download | |||||||||
| Recorded | 1999 | |||||||||
| Genre | Post-Britpop | |||||||||
| Length | 3:46 | |||||||||
| Label | S2, Epic | |||||||||
| Writer(s) | Sherman Kelly | |||||||||
| Producer(s) | George Drakoulias | |||||||||
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"Dancing in the Moonlight" is a song by the rock group King Harvest that was released as a single in 1972 and reached #13 on the Billboard Hot 100. The band released other singles, but they 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, 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) 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 base of 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 was also recorded by High Broom and released in 1970 on Island Records (catalog no. WIP 6088; vinyl 7"). It failed to reach UK Singles Chart.
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, which used the first part of the first verse instead of the second part of the first verse. In 1994, the song was released as a single by the group Baha Men, but failed to chart. Their version was later used in the Fat Albert movie.
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