Afternoon Delight

"Afternoon Delight"
Song

"Afternoon Delight" is a 1976 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.

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.

In the 1990s and 2000s, "Afternoon Delight" was featured in several film and television shows, albeit often in an ironic sense, such as Get a Life (TV series) (Chris Wins a Celebrity), Good Will Hunting, PCU, Boogie Nights, Starsky & Hutch, Arrested Development, The Simpsons (The Fat and the Furriest), Family Guy (in an alternate scene from the episode Stewie Kills Lois where Meg is preparing to masturbate with a pack of hot dogs), Rules of Engagement, Complete Savages, South Park and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. In 1983, The Circle Jerks also covered this song as one of the six cover versions on "Golden Shower of Hits (Jerks on 45)", which appears on their third album with the same title. Van Atta High has also covered the song on their Self-titled EP.

The name for the song comes from the name of a special menu of the same name at Clyde's restaurant in Georgetown.

References

this song is about masturbation!! and not about a restaurant in Georgetown!!

External links

• Author of the song Bill Danoff reflects on its use in pop culture