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"I'm Your Boogie Man"
#1 weeks: 1
weeks: 1977-06-11
genre: disco
artist: KC and the Sunshine Band
album: Part 3
writers: Harry Wayne Casey / Richard Finch
producers: Harry Wayne Casey / Richard Finch
label:
formats: 7", 12"

"I'm Your Boogie Man" is a popular song by KC and the Sunshine Band from their 1976 album Part 3. Richard Finch told Songfacts that this was written about a DJ at a Miami, Florida radio station called Robert W. Walker, who was the first to give their hit single "Get Down Tonight" airplay. In 1977 the song reached the #1 position on the Billboard Hot 100. The single reached #3 R&B, and #41 in the UK.

The song was sampled in at least one preview for all four of the Scary Moviefilms, as well as in the 2005 film Roll Bounce, the 2007 film Superbadand comic-to-film-adaptation Watchmen.

White Zombie originally recorded a cover of "I'm Your Boogie Man" for the The Crow: City of Angels Soundtrack. However, since the song's release date, it has also appeared on Rob Zombie's greatest hits album Past, Present & Futureand as a remixed version on the EP Supersexy Swingin' Sounds. The song is another different music style for the band as they are fusing disco with heavy metal. 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 Halloweenwhich would later be remade in 2007 by Rob Zombie.

Although the song failed to chart, it earned the White Zombie their third and final Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance in 1996.

The music video features Rob Zombie singing along to the lyrics of the song. Rob's screen time is cut multiple times, flashing to select scenes from the film The Crow: City of Angels.