Afternoon Delight Club Remix...

[aspiringactress]

Posted: 7/21/06 at 1:59pm

...by Mile High, on iTunes. Priceless.

[jimnysf]

Posted: 7/21/06 at 2:01pm

"Afternoon Delight"--Starland Vocal Band

Gonna find my baby, gonna hold her tight
Gonna grab some afternoon delight
My motto's always been 'when it's right, it's right'
Why wait until the middle of a cold dark night?
When everything's a little clearer in the light of day
And we know the night is always gonna be there any way

Thinkin' of you's workin' up my appetite
Looking forward to a little afternoon delight
Rubbin' sticks and stones together makes the sparks ingite
And the thought of lovin' you is getting so exciting
Sky rockets in flight
Afternoon delight
Afternoon delight
Afternoon delight

Started out this morning feeling so polite
I always though a fish could not be caught who wouldn't bite
But you've got some bait a waitin' and I think I might try nibbling
A little afternoon delight
Sky rockets in flight
Afternoon delight
Afternoon delight
Afternoon delight

Please be waiting for me, baby, when I come around
We could make a lot of lovin' 'for the sun goes down

Thinkin' of you's workin' up my appetite
Looking forward to a little afternoon delight
Rubbin' sticks and stones together makes the sparks ingite
And the thought of lovin' you is getting so exciting
Sky rockets in flight
Afternoon delight
Afternoon delight
Afternoon delight

Afternoon delight!

[aspiringactress]

Posted: 7/21/06 at 2:05pm

The remix is actually the funniest think I have ever heard, I think.

I now own 4 versions of the song. Yes, I am a loser.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 7/21/06 at 2:06pm

It was only a matter of time before this song was brought back into the mainstream.

[aspiringactress]

Posted: 7/21/06 at 2:08pm

This next song is quite simply the greatest composition is human history And if you disagree, I. will. bite you.

Gotta love the Anchorman version.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 7/21/06 at 2:10pm

like that's a threat to most of the folks around here.

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 7/21/06 at 2:10pm

I have always had a weird soft spot in my heart for this song. But I do like pop choral singing, always have. It's just odd. Those FIFTH DIMENSION vocal arrangements...so convulated/cheesy but sound so good!

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 7/21/06 at 2:33pm

I loved this song. Use to run around singing it...

[jimnysf]

Posted: 7/21/06 at 2:41pm

http://www.superseventies.com/sw_afternoondelight.html

"Afternoon Delight"
The Starland Vocal Band
Windsong 10588
July 1976 • Billboard: #1

he Starland Vocal Band was the creation of a clean-cut, all-American couple named Bill and Kathy "Taffy" Danoff. On the wings of angelic harmonies -- and with a little help from a superstar-pal, they soared to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 on July 10, 1976, with "Afternoon Delight."

By the late '60s, folksinger Bill Danoff (born May 7, 1946, in Springfield, Massachusetts) was working nights as the light and sound man at the Cellar Door club in Washington, D.C. There, he met John Denver, who was near the end of his stretch fronting the Chad Mitchell Trio. Soon Denver recorded Danoff's "I Guess I'd Rather Be in Colorado," and the friendship between them was cemented when they co-wrote the Rocky Mountain tycoon's first smash hit, "Take Me Home, Country Roads."

Meanwhile, Bill and his wife Taffy (born Kathy Nivert on October 25, 1944, in Washington, D.C.) had been scuffling around the folk circuit fronting a quintet called Fat City, which gradually lost members until only the Danoffs remained. As "Bill and Taffy," they recorded a pair of RCA albums, Pass It On and Aces. Following their failure, Bill found himself making a difficult career decision

"I was sitting around one night, writing and thinking what our next album should sound like," Bill told Melody Maker. "I was thinking of going in and cutting some singles in the hope that we could break through in that way. In the course of thinking about how to do them, I thought it might be a good idea with Jon (Carroll) and Margot (Chapman)." Pianist/singer Carroll had worked on the Aces LP, while vocalist Chapman was in one of Fat City's incarnations.

"I wasn't really looking to put a group together," he continued, "but I just thought that if we were going to have a group, it would be a good idea to have the four of us... I was thinking about the vocal idea, how we all got along and how it would work."

Calling themselves the Starland Vocal Band, the quartet finely-tuned its rich pop harmony sound before becoming the first act signed by Denver to his new Windsong label. In November, 1975, during the recording of the group's debut album, Taffy delivered a baby. It was a favorable omen. Released as the first single, "Afternoon Delight" entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 87 on May 8, 1976. Nine weeks later the Starland Vocal Band and Windsong Records had their first and only number one single.

According to an account in Rolling Stone, Taffy credited the song's creation to a culinary repast. "Bill wrote this after having lunch at Clyde's in Washington, D.C.," she explained to an audience before performing the song. "It seems Clyde's has a menu called 'Afternoon Delight' with stuff like spiced shrimp and hot Brie with almonds. So Bill ate it -- the food, that is -- and went home and explained to me what 'Afternoon Delight' should be."

Danoff acknowledged that audiences might find hidden meanings in the song. "I didn't want to write an all-out sex song," he told Dennis Hunt of the Los Angeles Times. "I just wanted to write something that was fun and hinted at sex. It was one of those songs that you could really have a good time writing."

The Danoffs thought they might have had a problem getting airplay on "Afternoon Delight," but few stations found it objectionable. "If the song had been banned it would have been a real injustice," Bill said in the Times. "The lyrics are subtle and sophisticated and not at all raunchy. It might have been banned years ago but not today."

The following spring, the Starland Vocal Band was awarded the Grammy for Best New Artist of 1976. Rear View Mirror, the follow-up to their 1976 debut album, was released by Windsong in June 1977. It wasn't nearly as successful as its predecessor, peaking at number 104 on the Billboard Hot 200 and remaining on the charts for 13 weeks.

- Fred Bronson, The Billboard Book of Number One Hits, Billboard, 1988.

[Mother's Younger Brother]

Posted: 7/21/06 at 2:43pm

For some reason, I knew this song by heart when I was 4 years old -- having NO idea what it even meant obviously. There are recordings of me singing it long before I could even pronounce my R's or L's. "Aftuhnoon Deyight." :)