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Thanks. I was unaware that they wrote it. I looked them up and found this:

It was Wells Kelly who convinced the group to revisit "Dancing in the Moonlight", but he left Paris before the song was recorded. Steve Cutler, a jazz drummer and fellow expatriate from New York, joined King Harvest for their last six months in Paris, recording "Dancing in the Moonlight" and playing clubs and concerts in Paris and London. Reportedly, Cutler performed the drum/percussion parts on the recording using a toilet scrubbing brush, as opposed to the traditional drumsticks.[1] The song was produced by Jack Robinson of Robin Song Music. Contrary to Boffalongo's original version, which included such disparate players as jazz flutist Jeremy Steig and Peter Giansante on drums, the King Harvest recording was more scaled back. A 45 rpm record of "Dancing in the Moonlight" was released in Paris, with "Lady, Come on Home" on the B-side. The single languished, and the group again (temporarily) disbanded.

However, in 1972, "Dancing in the Moonlight" began to generate interest back home in America, where the original four members would sign with the Perception label. Perception promptly leased the tune from France's Musidisc Records and prepared the group, now reestablished in Olcott Beach, NY,[1] to record a full-length album titled after the single. Meanwhile, the single would go on to reach #13 in the US in early 1973 and #5 in Canada, and the band embarked on a lengthy U.S. tour.[1] Australian drummer David Montgomery, formerly of the band Python Lee Jackson, officially joined King Harvest after the album's release and toured with them during the spring of 1973. "Dancing in the Moonlight" composer Sherman Kelly, who had not in fact participated in the recording of the single, also officially joined the band for the first time for this tour.[3]