“It is my own fault and I will work hard to regain trust and respect from those I let down, including myself.” He has written apology letters to each of his victims. “I will be remembered for this unfortunate moment,” said Finch, reports the Associated Press. He was then questioned by police and allegedly confessed to abuses against seven boys, aged 13 to 16 at the time of the crimes. Songfacts®: 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. The bassist was arrested in March after a 17-year-old boy reported that he’d had sexual contact with him at his home in Newark, Ohio. Two years later, Casey and Finch noticed that a lot of people were shaking their booties, so they wrote a song encouraging you to shake your booty. Richard Raymond Finch is an American composer, producer, engineer and arranger, born 23 January 1954 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He told the court in Ohio that though his memory of the events was diminished due to heavy drinking, he “took 100 percent responsibility” for what happened. Richard Finch, former bassist with KC And The Sunshine Band, has been sentenced to seven years in jail after admitting to sexually assaulting several teenage boys.įinch, who left the band in 1980 and is pictured here on the far right, pleaded no contest to several charges, including one count of sex with a minor and seven counts of sexual imposition.

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