I was busy last night and asked my wife if we could make love at 2 p.m. today instead of last night. She was going to work at 4:30 p.m., so I figured we would wake up, I would write a few articles, and then we would have lunch and shoot our skyrockets. And it somehow made me think of the Starland Vocal Band song “Afternoon Delight,” a rather overtly sexual 1976 tune about making love in the afternoon instead of waiting till night.
Vocally, “Afternoon Delight” sounds like something you would hear on that cheesy Glee TV show, but it actually won a Grammy for Best Arrangement for Voices. It was a #1 single on Billboard in 1976, the chart week after the 1976 U.S. bicentennial celebration (July 4, 1976). The song ended up being #12 for the entire Billboard charting year of 1976.
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More recently, the song was introduced to younger audiences through several movies, including Good Will Hunting and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.