"I'm Your Boogie Man" | ||||
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Single by KC and the Sunshine Band | ||||
from the album Part 3 | ||||
B-side | "Wrap Your Arms Around Me" | |||
Released | 1977 | |||
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Genre | Disco | |||
Length | 4:04 | |||
Label | TK | |||
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KC and the Sunshine Band singles chronology | ||||
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"I'm Your Boogieman" | ||||||||||
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Single by White Zombie | ||||||||||
from the album The Crow: City of Angels Soundtrack | ||||||||||
Released | 1996 | |||||||||
Format | CD single | |||||||||
Length | 4:27 | |||||||||
Label | Miramax, Hollywood | |||||||||
Writer(s) | Harry Wayne Casey, Richard Finch | |||||||||
Producer(s) | Terry Date, Ulrich Wild, White Zombie | |||||||||
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"I'm Your Boogie Man" is a song written and produced by Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch, and performed by Casey's band KC and the Sunshine Band from the band's fourth album Part 3 (1976).
Richard Finch said that the song was written about a DJ at a Miami, Florida radio station called Robert W. Walker, who was the first to give their hit single "Get Down Tonight" airplay.
In 1977 the song reached the number one position on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 3 on the soul charts. Billboard ranked it as the #11 song of 1977. The song was also an international chart hit, reaching number one in Canada and charting in Australia (No. 38), Belgium (No. 16), the Netherlands (No. 6), New Zealand (No. 12) and the United Kingdom (No. 41).
American band White Zombie originally recorded a cover of "I'm Your Boogie Man" for the The Crow: City of Angels Soundtrack. However, since the song's release date, it has also appeared on Rob Zombie's greatest hits album Past, Present & Future and as a remixed version on the EP Supersexy Swingin' Sounds. The song is another different music style for the band as they are fusing disco with heavy metal. The audio samples in the song where children are heard saying "He's gonna get you! The Boogieman is coming!" are taken from the 1978 film Halloween, which would later be remade in 2007 by Rob Zombie. The remixed version was also heard on a Halloween episode of the ABC television series 666 Park Avenue.