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Tighten Up Lyrics


Hi everybody
I'm Archie Bell of the Drells
From Houston, Texas
We don't only sing but we dance
Just as good as we walkIn Houston we just started a new dance
Called the Tighten Up
This is the music
We tighten up withFirst tighten up on the drums
Come on now, drummer
I want you to tighten it up for me now
Oh yeahTighten up on that bass now
Tighten it up, ha, ha, yeah
Now let that guitar fall in, oh yeah
Tighten up on that organ nowYeah, you do the tighten up, yeah, now
I said, if you can do it now
It sure would be tough
Now look here, come on now
Now make it mellowLet's tighten it up now

Do the tighten up
Everybody can do it now
So get to itWe're gonna tighten up
Let's do the tighten up
You can do it now
So baby, get to itLook to your left now
Look to your right
Everybody can do it
But don't you get too tightCome on and tighten up
Let's tighten it up now
Let's tighten it up now
Tighten it upDo the tighten up
Come and tighten it up
Tighten it up nowCome on now, Billy
Tighten it up, oh yeah
Sock it to me now
Tighten it upCome on and tighten up that bass
Oh yeah, now look here
I want that guitar to fall in on there
Tighten it up now, oh yeah
Now tighten it up, organ, yeah
Now everybody tighten it up nowNow look here
We gonna make it mellow for you now
We gonna make it mellow nowTighten it up, you can get it
Move to your left, move to your right
Tighten it up now
Everything will be outta sightCome on and tighten it up
Tighten it up now
You can do it

Enjoy the lyrics !!!
Archie Bell (born in Henderson, Texas on September 1, 1944) & the Drells were a Houston soul vocal group, one of the main acts on Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff's Philadelphia International Records. The band's hits include "Tighten Up" and "I Can't Stop Dancing" (both 1968), "The Soul City Walk" (1976), and "Everybody Have A Good Time" (1977).

Bell, the brother of American footballer Ricky Bell (1955-1984), moved to Houston as a young boy and formed the group in 1966 with his friends James Wise, Willie Parnell and Billy Butler. They signed with local label Ovid.

After a spell in Vietnam for Archie, the group released Tighten Up, which was picked up by Atlantic for distribution and toppped both the R&B and pop charts. The song's line "we dance just as good as we walk" was a little ironic given that Archie had been shot in the leg and was consigned to a military hospital bed at the time.

The phenomenal success of the single prompted the band to rush out an album, despite their incapacitated leader.

In 1969, after Bell had left the army, the group recorded their first full album with Gamble and Huff, I Can't Stop Dancing, which reached number 28 on the R&B chart.

After mediocre chart showings in the late '70s, the group split in 1980. Archie Bell later released one solo album on Beckett Records. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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