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Get Down on It

"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)
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
"Steppin' Out"
(1981)
"Get Down on It"
(1981)
"Joanna"
(1983)
"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
"Mysterious Girl"
(1995)
"Get Down On It"
(1996)
"Only One"
(1996)
"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
"Curtain Falls"
(2004)
"Get Down on It"
(2005)
"Only Words I Know"
(2005)

"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.


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