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"Get Down and Get With It" is a single from rock band Slade which appeared on the compilation album ''Sladest''. It was written by Bobby Marchan, who first recorded the song as "Get Down With It" in 1965. The single was released in 1971 and peaked at #16 in the UK, spending 14 weeks on the chart. This was Slade's first chart entry in their career. Their next single "Coz I Luv You" would peak at #1. == Background == Originally, both Slade manager/producer Chas Chandler and Slade had decided that in order to make a break into the charts they would need to capture their strong reputation as a live act onto record. They chose "Get Down and Get With It", a kind of hybrid of a Little Richard song and a Bobby Marchan song, as the band would frequently play the song live and it was always a popular live number. The song was successfully captured in the studio, complete with foot-stomping and hand-clapping as intended, eventually breaking Slade into the UK chart as well as Europe.〔Slade Biography Feel The Noize!〕 The single was released two times during 1971. Firstly on 21/05/1971 with credits stating the track was written by Hill, Holder, Lea, Powell & Penniman (as Little Richard had recorded covers, first in 1965 as "Do The Jerk", then again 1966, and 1967, as "Get Down With It"). When the apparent mistake was realised the song was hurriedly re-released as "Get Down With It" written by Marchan on 08/06/1971, though the similarity ends within a few opening lines.〔Noddy Holder's biography Who's Crazee Now?〕 The single wouldn't reach the top #20 until 07/08/1971. Subsequent to its original release, "Get Down and Get With It" has appeared on several Slade compilation albums, including ''Sladest'', ''Greatest Hits'', ''Wall of Hits'', ''Slade Smashes'', ''Slade's Greats'' and ''The Very Best of Slade''. "Get Down and Get With It" was voted #2 of the top three Slade live tracks in the Slade Fan Club Poll of 1979.〔http://sladefanclub.weebly.com/uploads/7/6/6/0/7660950/7869225_orig.jpg〕〔Slade Fan Club Magazine January–February 1980〕 In the September–December 1986 Slade fan club magazine, the poll results were announced for the 1986 opinion poll based on Slade’s material. For the best live song, "Get Down and Get With It" placed at #1. The track would become a popular concert track for the rest of Slade's career with live versions appearing on ''Slade Alive!'' and ''Live at Reading''. In a December 1984 interview with ''Record Mirror'', the magazine tested Lea's memory by asking him to recall the story behind certain hits. For "Get Down and Get With It", Lea stated ''"This was the 'put your hands in the air' number. You notice most bands do this corny thing at the end of the show when they say 'everybody put your hands in the air' and you go - oh no, yawn, how embarrassing. So 'Get Down and Get With It' was Nod's idea, he'd heard it at this discotheque. It was great because it was all in the song, join in."'' In 1990, Kiss AMC sampled the song for their single My Docs which featured an appearance from Holder in the music video. In 2001, the song was sampled by BSJ & Fun K for the track titled "Everybody Everywhere". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Get Down and Get with It」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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