“Is that a lot of everybodys”? you may reasonably be wondering. As a matter of fact, there are a total of 22 “everybodys” in this precisely 3-minute tune. So comprehensive and inclusive you can’t help but feel warmly welcomed to, well, dance in King Harvest’s mellifluous moonlight. Then, could there be any other peculiarity that more than likely everybody abundantly enjoys, if even subconsciously, within the song? Why, the extremely liberal use of the word “everybody,” of course. So, in addition to its charming and undeniably upbeat catchiness, what are some of the aspects that make ‘Dancing in the Moonlight’ so broadly beloved? Well you could start with its opening line, “We get it almost every night” – which I can honestly say I’ve mistaken for 50 years as the decidedly bolder statement “We get it on most every night” (in fact, I’m hereby disregarding my just-executed lyrics search and sticking with the heretofore-presumed more titillating tone-setter). I’d wager that not just some of you but practically everybody likes the song ‘Dancing in the Moonlight,’ which based on its very frequent phrasing throughout the tune actually deserves to be titled with one of those parenthetical allusions as ‘(Everybody’s) Dancing in the Moonlight.’ It’s a top-notch early-‘70’s pop nugget, as well as being something else everybody seems to love, a one-hit-wonder: in this instance, for the French-American band King Harvest – so named after the 1969 song by The Band, who everybody in the group considered their chief musical influence, entitled ‘King Harvest (Has Surely Come)’ (see the parentheses use there in that song title?…and as cited here within my parentheses, for the greater meta affect?).

King harvest dancing in the moonlight