I'm Your Boogie Man
"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 their fourth album "Part 3" (1976). Background. Richard Finch said that the song was written about a DJ at a Miami, Florida, radio station named Robert W. Walker, who was the first to give their hit single "Get Down Tonight" airplay. Chart performance. In 1977 the song reached the number one position on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and No. 3 on the soul chart. "Billboard  ranked it as the #11 song of 1977. The song was also an international 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). White Zombie version. American band White Zombie originally recorded a cover of I'm Your Boogie Man" for "". 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 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". Reception. The song earned White Zombie their third and final Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance in 1997. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic called the cover "embarrassingly predictable, humorless, and clueless."