From FOX:
December 4, 2009, Los Angeles, CA – Legendary R&B band Earth, Wind & Fire has teamed up with animated character Cleveland Brown of The Cleveland Show to record a new holiday song called “Get Your Hump On This Ch
ristmas.” The song, as well as a companion music video that features animated versions of the band’s members, is currently available for purchase on iTunes and will be available as a free download exclusively on iTunes for one week beginning December 8.
Written by Mike Henry, Richard Appel, Gabe Miller, Jonathan Green, Clarence Livingston, Matt Murray, Julius Sharpe, Philip Bailey and Myron McKinley, “Get Your Hump On This Christmas” is being released on the 20th Century Fox TV record label.
“I couldn’t believe how much positive energy came out of these guys,” said Cleveland Brown of working with Earth, Wind & Fire. “I just wish Donna wasn’t eyeballing Philip the whole time. She said she wasn’t. But she was.”
“What a thrill to work with my childhood musical heroes!” said Mike Henry, co-creator/executive producer, The Cleveland Show, and voice of Cleveland Brown. “Philip, Verdine [White] and Ralph [Johnson] are so gracious, so humble and so ridiculously talented. And the song we made is truly something special. Get your hump on, everyone!”
“We jumped at the chance to perform a duet with one of television’s gifted personalities,” said Philip Bailey, leader and co-founder of Earth, Wind & Fire. “Being fans for many years, we are humbled to get our ‘hump’ on this Christmas with Cleveland and his creative family.”
“Every girl who broke my heart in high school did so while an Earth Wind & Fire song was playing,” said The Cleveland Show co-creator and showrunner Richard Appel. “But seeing that the guys are every bit as kind as they are talented made it hard not to forgive and forget.”
In the next all-new episode of The Cleveland Show, airing Sunday, Dec. 13 (8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX, Cleveland (Mike Henry) fills in as Santa Claus at his office holiday party, and when he has one too many egg nogs, he lets the truth slip about Rallo’s (Mike Henry) father. With Rallo’s admiration for his dad destroyed, Cleveland tries to reconnect father and son in an attempt to save Rallo’s Christmas spirit. Meanwhile, Roberta (Nia Long) becomes an animal rights activist and tries to save a reindeer.
For more holiday programming information, visit our special holiday site.
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