I'm Your Boogie Man

Written by KC & The Sunshine Band bassist-producer Richard Finch and frontman Harry Wayne Casey, The "boogie" of the title is in the sense of dancing, shaking your booty, and getting down, not with the scary kind of "boogie man." In a Songfacts interview with Casey, he told the story: "'I'm Your Boogie Man,' in the initial writing of it I called it 'I'll Be A Son Of A Gun': I'll be a son of a gun Look what you've done Then I went back and 'I'm Your Boogie Man' came into my head because I was thinking about how disc jockeys were always there on the radio. Like it says: Early morning Late afternoon Or at midnight It's never too soon I'm your Boogie Man It's taking the theme of the disc jockey being the one that's there for you all the time, no matter when. So it was as if I was a disc jockey, I'm the Boogie Man. Like if you call in and want to hear a certain song, or talk about what was going on in your life, I'm your Boogie Man. And of course I put in 'turn me on,' but that could also mean turned on the radio."

A specific DJ who influenced this song was Robert W. Walker at Y-100 in Miami, Florida, who was the first to give the group's hit single "Get Down Tonight" airplay. So Walker "was the Boogie Man that brought all the funk and the good feeling and the vibes to the people every morning," Rick Finch told Songfacts.

Some DJs got offended after taking this song the wrong way. In the '70s, "boogie man" was sometimes interpreted as a racial insult to a black man. At least one DJ, Frankie Crocker at WBLS in New York, canceled an interview with the group upon learning they were white. They were actually an integrated band, with Finch and Casey the only white members.