Get Down on It

"Get Down on It"
One of side-A labels of US single
Single by Kool & the Gang
from the album Something Special
B-side"Steppin' Out", "Summer Madness" (UK), "No Show" (France)
ReleasedNovember 24, 1981
Recorded1981
Genre
Length
  • 4:52 (album version)
  • 4:36 (video version)
  • 3:33 (single version)
LabelDe-Lite
Songwriter(s)Ronald Nathan Bell, Claydes Charles Smith, George Melvin Brown, James "J.T." Taylor, Robert Spike Mickens, Robert Earl Bell, Eumir Deodato
Producer(s)Eumir Deodato in association with Kool & the Gang
Kool & the Gang singles chronology
"Steppin' Out"
(1981)
"Get Down on It"
(1981)
"Big Fun"
(1982)
Music video
"Get Down on It” on YouTube

"Get Down on It" is a 1981 song by American band Kool & the Gang. It was originally released on their Something Special album in 1981. The single was certified Gold by the RIAA.

Record World called it a "kinetic dancer" and said that the "chant-like chorus hook is contagious."[4]

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  4. ^ "Hits of the Week" (PDF). Record World. March 6, 1982. p. 1. Retrieved March 2, 2023.