Boogie Down (Linda): Boogie Nights

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There’s one thing about it: you may like this song, or you may hate this song, but you’ll really like the band name if you’re under this current cold snap. The cold-weather lockdown has resulted in me getting my living room checked off as “cleaned.” To celebrate let’s boogie onto the dance floor with another song that Linda might like. Boogie Nights - Heatwave Yeah, bring us a heat wave! This band is known for two very opposite songs: the ballad “Always and Forever,” and this. (Well, “The Groove Line” was a pretty big dance hit in 1978…if anyone remembers anything but a Bee Gees song from that year. ) If you watch the video you’ll be a little surprised, in the best Wild Cherry way (remember them from earlier in the countdown?), that a couple of the members are white. And this was written by a Caucasian: Rod Temperton, who also wrote Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” (He was the keyboard player in Heatwave.) If you contrast this song with yesterday’s, which was based on the “boogie woogie” style, you’ll see a shining example of how the definition of boogie changed over the years! Get on back to the 70s and get down! Boogie Nights Written by Rod Temperton Recorded by Heatwave From Too Hot to Handle, 1976 Got to keep on dancing: