"Afternoon Delight"
Afternoon Delight by Starland Vocal Band
Single by Starland Vocal Band from the album Starland Vocal Band
Released	1976
Length	3:16
Writer	Bill Danoff
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"Afternoon Delight" is a 1976 hit song by the Starland Vocal Band, written by Bill Danoff, featuring close harmony and sexually suggestive lyrics. It became a number-one U.S. Billboard Hot 100 single on July 10, 1976. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ... Starland Vocal Band is an American pop band, known primarily for Afternoon Delight, one of the biggest singles in 1976 (see 1976 in music). ... Year 1976 Pick up sticks(MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ... Bill Danoff is a songwriter and singer. ... Image File history File links Afternoon_Delight_by_The_Starland_Vocal_Band. ... Image File history File links Afternoon_Delight_by_The_Starland_Vocal_Band. ... Year 1976 Pick up sticks(MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Starland Vocal Band is an American pop band, known primarily for Afternoon Delight, one of the biggest singles in 1976 (see 1976 in music). ... Bill Danoff is a songwriter and singer. ... Close harmony is an arrangement of the notes of chords within a narrow range, typically one octave. ... “Hot 100” redirects here. ... is the 191st day of the year (192nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1976 Pick up sticks(MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Concurrent to the Starland Vocal Band's version, country singer Johnny Carver had a Top 10 version of his own on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. Hot Country Songs is a chart released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. ...

In the 1990s and 2000s, "Afternoon Delight" was featured in several film and television shows, albeit often in an ironic sense, such as Good Will Hunting, PCU, Boogie Nights, Starsky & Hutch, Arrested Development, The Simpsons, Rules of Engagement, Complete Savages, South Park and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... PCU can refer to: PCU Prankcall Underground Radio, an internet rado stream with a small fan community centering around prankcalls. ... This article is about the 1997 film. ... Starsky & Hutch is a 2004 American comedy/action film directed by Todd Phillips. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Simpsons redirects here. ... Rules of Engagement is a sitcom that debuted on CBS on February 5, 2007, as a midseason replacement, immediately following Two and a Half Men, in the time slot that was occupied by The New Adventures of Old Christine. ... Complete Savages was a comedy sitcom television program that began airing on ABC in September 2004. ... This article is about the TV series. ... Categories: Stub | 2004 films | Comedy films ...

The name for the song comes from the name of a special menu of the same name at Clyde's restaurant in Georgetown.^[1] Clydes Restaurant Group is a private company that owns and operates 12 restaurants in the Washington Metropolitan Area . ... The familiar golden dome of Washingtons once venerable Riggs Bank, now amalgamated into PNC Bank, at the northeast corner of Wisconsin Avenue and M Street NW. Georgetown in red Georgetown is a neighborhood located in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C., along the Potomac River waterfront. ...

References in popular culture

• 1987: In the movie Dragnet it plays while Dan Aykroyd's character is romancing the heroine, The Virgin, Connie Swial.
• 1994: In the movie PCU, the song is used as a form of torture.
• 1996: In episode #112 of the FOX comedy series MADtv, a hitman (David Herman) tries to remember the song playing in his head while looking for his target. The song is Afternoon Delight.
• 1997: In the motion picture Good Will Hunting, the main character Will Hunting (played by Matt Damon) is forced to visit a hypnotherapist. At first he pretends to be under hypnosis by telling a youthly trauma, but soon he converts his story into the lyrics of Afternoon Delight and finishes by singing it, showing he was pretending to be hypnotised.
• 1997: In episode 215 of Murphy Brown, Murphy recalls that she once met Kay outside a concert because they both hated the song (even though Kay was actually the band's manager at the time)
• 1997: In Boogie Nights, it is used as the background to an early sex scene
• 1998: On episode 1.2 of the show Sports Night ("The Apology"), Casey's coworkers use the fact that he likes the song as proof that he is uncool.
• 2000: In the Malcolm In The Middle episode titled Home Alone 4 (originally aired 23 January 2000), the song is played on the radio during Hal and Lois' car ride.
• 2001-2002: In an episode of season 4, of the tv series sex and the city the cast is singing the song when Miranda announces she is keeping Steve's child.
• 2002: In The Rules of Attraction, while Sean Bateman masturbates in his dorm, and when he wakes in the morning following a failed suicide attempt.
• 2003: In The Simpsons's episode "The Fat and the Furriest", Lenny, Carl, and Bart listen and dance to Afternoon Delight, missing Homer's cries for help when he is attacked by a bear.
• 2004: In Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) explains to his friends what it's like falling in love with Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate); in the process, the foursome sings the song. They also perform a full cover of the song on the film's soundtrack album, and a music video (directed by The Malloys) of the same is included as an extra feature on the "Unrated, Uncut, & Uncalled For!" version of the film's DVD release.
• 2004: The song is played briefly in Starsky & Hutch.
• 2004: In the Arrested Development episode titled Afternoon Delight (originally aired 19 December 2004), the show's main character, Michael, sings a karaoke version of the song with his niece Maeby, becoming increasingly aware of the song's sexual theme as it continues. In a reversal of that situation, Michael's sister (and Maeby's mother) Lindsay would later sing the song with Michael's son, George Michael. [1]
• 2005: On the Complete Savages episode (Teen Things I Hate About You), Nick plays that tune on his CD player & the jukebox at the teen center to drive away the friends of Nich's sons.
• 2005: In episode 13 of the television show Entourage, Turtle quotes the song after intercourse with a Hollywood prostitute.
• 2006: In the South Park episode "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy," the song plays as an attractive teacher engages in illicit sexual conduct with a pre-school student.
• 2006: On the daytime drama, One Life to Live, the kooky Roxanne Balsom character sang "Hot pockets tonight, afternoon delight."
• 2007: On the television show My Name Is Earl in an episode entitled "Our 'Cops' Is On!", the song is playing in a convenience store that Earl and Randy are robbing.
• 2007: On Lost, Sawyer says he wants "afternoon delight" from Kate.
• 2007: On the The Chasers War on Everything did the song for the Ad Road Test of SoHo Delights biscuits, which used a rendition of the song in their television commercials.
• 2007: On the Howard Stern Show, a parody of the song was played with the subject matter being newswoman Robin Quivers.
• 2007: On Ugly Betty (Family/Affair); Christina McKinney told Betty Suarez while hiding under Wilhelmina Slater's bed what it meant, since it was Betty's favorite song. It also had Wilhelmina's bodyguard, whom she was sleeping with, thinking of that tune as well.
• 2007: On Rules of Engagement'' episode "Old School Jeff", the first bars of the song are the ring tone when Bianca Kajlich calls the cell phone of Oliver Hudson.
• 2007: On the Family Guy episode Stewie Kills Lois, Meg is lisitning to the song in her room( note: this is seen only in some versions]].

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References

1. ^ http://www.billdanoff.com/starlandvocalband.htm#Afternoon%20Delight]

External links

• Trivia about the song from SongFacts.com
• Author of the song Bill Danoff reflects on its use in pop culture
• Lyrics and Parsing of lyrics