Grab your friends/hit the floor!  A true cross-cultural group, this Heatwave. An American, an English guy, a dude from Jamaica, and who can forget Czechoslovak Ernest "Bilbo" Berger? Big fan of that guy. Big fan of this song, as a matter of fact. Hit the top ten in the summer of 1979, takes me right back there, coming out of that big, spawn of a robot looking boom box that I was in a decade long campaign of wrecking.

And, yes, this was totally in the mix at the local Skateworld, not that I was ever into that sort of thing, ha ha.

 

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The most interesting thing about this band, this Heatwave, was main songwriting guru Rod Temperton, who hooked up with Quincy Jones and some guy named Jackson and co-wrote "Rock with You", "Off the Wall", "Burn This Disco Out", "Baby Be Mine", "The Lady in My Life" and "Thriller", amongst other Godzilla sized hits...

So break out the flash disco pants, throw some gold chains on and let's hit the disco, "The Grooveline" is on-.

-AND IT'S YOUR K-101.7 SONG OF THE DAY.

 

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