Get Down Tonight

{{Infobox song

| name = Get Down Tonight

| cover = KCAndTheSunshineBandGetDownTonightFrench7InchSingleCover.jpg

| alt =

| caption = French 7-Inch Single Cover

| type = single

| artist = KC and the Sunshine Band

| album = KC and the Sunshine Band

| B-side = You Don't Know

| released = February 11, 1975

| format =

| recorded =

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = {{hlist|Disco{{cite book|first= Ritchie |last= Yorke |author-link= Ritchie Yorke |title= The History of Rock'n'roll |publisher= Methuen |quote= And that's the way fans like it, as KC and the Sunshine Band came through with the top disco hit of the year, Get Down Tonight. |year= 1976 |page= 169 |isbn= 978-0-8467-0186-6}}{{cite book|first=Alice|last=Echols|title=Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture|chapter= I Hear a Symphony: Black Masculinity and the Disco Turn|url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Hot_Stuff_Disco_and_the_Remaking_of_Amer.html?id=DzrvOAA2tvAC|date=March 29, 2010|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|isbn=978-0-393-06675-3|page=28}}|funk{{cite web|first= Alex |last= Henderson |title= KC & the Sunshine Band – KC and the Sunshine Band |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/kc-and-the-sunshine-band-mw0000627024 |publisher= AllMusic |access-date= May 23, 2013}}|R&B{{cite book|first= Marcus|last= Weeks|editor-first= Robert |editor-last= Dimery |year= 2015 |title= 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die|chapter= KC & The Sunshine Band – "That's the Way (I Like It)|publisher= Universe|location= New York|page= 350}}}}

| length = {{unbulleted list|3:21 (single version)|5:19 (album version)}}

| label = TK

| writer = {{hlist|Harry Wayne Casey|{{nowrap|Richard Finch}}}}

| producer = {{hlist|Harry Wayne Casey|{{nowrap|Richard Finch}}}}

| prev_title = I'm a Pushover

| prev_year = 1974

| next_title = Shotgun Shuffle

| next_year = 1975

| misc = {{External music video|header=Official audio|{{YouTube|Uoa_H18dMeU|"Get Down Tonight"}}}}

}}

"Get Down Tonight" is a song by American disco and funk band KC and the Sunshine Band, released in February 1975 by TK Records as the first single from their second and self-titled album (1975). The song became widely successful, becoming the first of their five No. 1 hits on the US Billboard Hot 100. It also reached the top of the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart{{cite book|title= Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942–2004 |first= Joel |last= Whitburn |author-link= Joel Whitburn |year= 2004 |publisher= Record Research |page= 315}} and was an international chart hit, reaching No. 1 in Canada and charting in Australia (No. 44), Belgium (No. 11), the Netherlands (No. 5), and the UK (No. 21). In 2022, Rolling Stone ranked "Get Down Tonight" number 100 in their list of the "200 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time".{{cite magazine|first1=Jon|last1=Dolan|first2=Julyssa|last2=Lopez|first3=Michaelangelo|last3=Matos|first4=Claire|last4=Shaffer|title=200 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/200-greatest-dance-songs-of-all-time-1372888|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=July 22, 2022|accessdate=April 6, 2025}}