"Get Down on It" | ||||
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Single by Kool & the Gang | ||||
from the album Something Special | ||||
B-side | "No Show" | |||
Released | November 24, 1981 | |||
Format | Vinyl record, cassette single | |||
Recorded | 1981 | |||
Genre | Post-disco | |||
Length | 4:52 (album version) 3:33 (single version) |
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Label | De-Lite Records | |||
Writer(s) | Ronald Nathan Bell, Claydes Charles Smith, George Melvin Brown, James "J.T." Taylor, Robert Spike Mickens, Robert Earl Bell and Eumir Deodato | |||
Kool & the Gang singles chronology | ||||
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"Get Down On It" | ||||
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Single by Peter Andre featuring Past to Present | ||||
from the album Natural | ||||
Released | February 12, 1996 | |||
Format | CD Single, Cassette | |||
Recorded | 1995 | |||
Length | 4:47 | |||
Label | Melodian | |||
Writer(s) | Bell, Taylor, Brown, Hickens, Nash, Giftens, Thomas, Smith, West | |||
Producer(s) | Ashley Cadell | |||
Peter Andre chronology | ||||
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"Get Down on It" | ||||
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Single by Blue featuring Kool & the Gang and Lil' Kim | ||||
from the album Best of Blue | ||||
Released | 3 January 2005 | |||
Format | CD Single | |||
Recorded | June 2004 | |||
Length | 4:37 | |||
Label | Innocent | |||
Producer(s) | Stargate | |||
Blue singles chronology | ||||
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"Get Down on It" is a 1982 RIAA million-selling Gold-certified single by American band Kool & the Gang. It was originally released on their Platinum-selling Something Special album in 1981.
The song hit the Top 10 of the U.S. Pop and R&B charts in Billboard in early 1982. It entered the UK charts in December 1981 and reached number 3, their highest-charting hit in the UK at that time. It spent a total of 12 weeks on the British play list. Ten years later, it was re-released in the UK charts – on the Mercury label – but only charted for a week (at number 69).
"Get Down On It" was re-recorded and released as the third overall single from Australian singer Peter Andre's second studio album, Natural. The single featured the band Past to Present. The single reached No.1 in New Zealand and No. 5 on the Australian Singles Chart, achieving Gold status there in March 1996.
In 2004, the British pop group Blue recorded the song as a collaboration with Kool & The Gang, and released it as the second single from their greatest hits compilation Best of Blue.
This song was sampled by Snoop Dogg in "We Just Wanna Party with You" (1997) for the Men in Black soundtrack.
This song was sampled by 98 Degrees in "Do You Wanna Dance" from 98 Degrees and Rising.