KC and the Sunshine Band will be honored with a star on the Palm Springs Walk of Fame and with disco menu items at Ruby’s (Contributed Image)
Put this in the “I can’t make this stuff up” file”:
KC and the Sunshine Band will receive a star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars on Saturday, July 6. (That’s not the strange part. Cheeta the Chimp from the Tarzan movies, who actually turned out not to be the real Cheeta, has one, as does his handler Dan Westfall. So does Chevy Chase. And Randy Sparks & The New Christy Minstrels.)
The disco gods will be honored with their star at a public ceremony in Palm Springs at 3 p.m. on Saturday at 144 S. Palm Canyon Drive, where everyone is likely to melt on the sidewalk in the 108-degree heat.
Then, KC and the Sunshine Band will perform at 8 p.m. in the Special Events Center at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio. That’s still not the strange part.
To honor KC and the Sunshine Band, the Ruby’s Diner location at 155 S. Palm Canyon Drive, will offer two limited-time items from Friday, July 5 through Sunday, July 7. (This is where it starts to get strange.)
What are the menu items, you ask? The “Boogie Burger” and the “Shake, Shake, Shake” Shake.
And since the star will be in front of See’s Candies, the candy shop is creating a special wrapper for their Butterscotch Chews.
What will the wrapper say? “Boogie Chews.” As in “my my my my my Boogie Shoes.”
Apparently the store will also highlight KC’s other favorite item, Sugar Free Peanut Brittle. Apparently there’s no good way to play on the words with that one. I guess “(Sugar Free’s) the Way I Like It” and “Get Brittle Tonight” didn’t have the right ring to it.