They probably learned how to read music. Most people who want to play instruments don't realize that the ability to read is the key. And yes, this tune was cool. I didn't know the bass player was white Cool.
I always liked this tune. I remember seeing this group on a teenage music TV show and was struck it included white musicians. I hadn't seen many integrated groups before. Let me now I had a chance to play R&B/Soul music too. I guess that's why I like Booker T and the MGs also
The stereotypical negro boy on the drums dressed in horn rimmed glasses, shirt buttomed to the collar, like he just came in from a Civil Rights march in Alabama! The negro male gayesque dancers in unison wearing white patent shoes and blue zoot suits! The white boys dressed like geeks, and the guy with the Abraham Lincolnesque beard! Too funny!
@Jeishein would not even worry about a white man, black man, or blue man why???? Because he himself is a MAN. The word nigga is not saying nigger just a stupid ass variation of the original word. And the Honorable W. Deen.Mohammed is a truly TRULY righteous brother far more enlightened the kahn
@jeishein first and foremost Farrakhan has u brain washed broths, trying to find and fight an ancient battle against the white man lol. Secondly the white man has not locked us up and has us programmed and all that BS, 95 percent of the black men that are in jail are there because black on black crime is truly a mothafucka, last but not least, a true strong black man
@Robertsmith2002 abraham lincoln-emancipation proclamation-four score and seventeen years ago our forefathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men(and i assume women)are created equal and due certain unalienable rights. that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...dave kelly, songwriter.abe was a honkey.
The Enemy has you calling Brothers filthy names calculated to keep us locked up, locked down and locked out. You are either one of the Enemy or a Brother who is still unenlightened. In either case don't come at me with your Devilish vocabulary. You got the wrong strong, proud Brother for that.
Under the authority of The Honorable Louis Farrakhan, it must be pointed out that these young Brothers are getting exploited before our eyes. The Enemy took our music, our dancing, our art sold it to America, and paid us pennies on the dollar, if that. The Enemy got these Brothers grinning, while they count the money in the back office.
@jeishein The White entertainers were and are exploited just like the Blacks. Elvis was practically broke when he died. He wasn't the only one. Think for yourself sometimes. You're being exploited.
I remember a TV series with Bruce Willis (he played an investigator with an Actress whose name I do not remember) and he came in the office singing Tighten Up. If anyone remembers this series can you please post the name and also who the actress was? Thank you for the posting.
@MrSky0224 boy, im havin trouble getting thru.third try.is archie still playing?if this gets through, please e mail me at odd4kelly@yahoo ,com.thanks d.kelly-songwriter,chgo.
This is one of my all time favorite songs for sure. i was 10 yrs old and would sing it in the living room and dance the "Tighten Up". Boy those were the days. i am 52 now and have recorded so much music from the past and play it and family gatherings/parties. I told my son (the oldest) to please please save my misic when im gone and pass it down for genorations to come. I LOVE all music.
@cisogonzales let me send you a video or two of my stuff i think youd appreciate. i was dancin to elvis 45s when i was seven.songwriter david kelly chgo.odd4kelly@yahoo.com
Archie Bell was just being interviewed by George Klein on Sirius Radio Elvis 24/7 very interesting. His brother played in the NFL and another brother in the NBA
The dance to this song had two other name's that I know of.....the Typewriter and the Four Corner's.. The music you have recorded, is truly a treasure...
During the Disco era I requested this song in NYC studio 54 and it was a still jamming yeah.Tiberious in LA and Sheik Ricks in Chi-town.Had a lot of partying.
There was no faking back then. You either had it or you didn't. Today's music sounds the same and much of it is overshadowed by sexual lyrics and gestures. The artist of old didn't have to rely on that.
the breakdown on this song is SOOOOOOOOOO hot to me. you had to have a lot of energy and stamina to be in a singing group back in the day. they danced the whole time. GOOD MUSIC NEVER DIES!
Great Early Funk Song, The Dancing....... Not So Much. The line in "Tighten Up", "we dance just as good as we walk" was a little ironic, given that Bell had been shot in the leg and was consigned to a military hospital bed at the time. LMFAO.
if these guys were backing up James Brown, they'd be fired by the third measure. Christ- this band is so weak. It's actually so retarded it's cool. The track of "Tighten Up" is a different story of course- that thing was magic.
I remember when this song came out. I was a little girl. My family drove out to Los Angeles, California and while there, we visited family. I remember watching in awe as a relative did the "Tighten Up", as I heard the song for the very first time. Even though I lived around the corner from Texas Southern University, the school of the backing band, the TSU Toronados, and even though I hailed from Houston, I had to go over a thousand miles before I heard the song for the first time. LOL!
I love that story. I lived in Houston and I believe Archie Bell & Drells were from around N. Shepherd area. They were great. Too bad you had to go to "La-La" land before you heard 'em.
I am hoping so. With all that money they spent to tighten up the offense, it ironic that they are 0-2 (and comical, too). Anyway, I am hoping that they will get a W this week. Take care:)
I read that the Drells are the guys dancing to Archie's left. And the guys with the instruments were originally known as the TSU Tornados, from Texas State University.
I don't know who the white guys are in this video, but I assure you that they are NOT the TSU Toranados. TSU was at that time 100% Black, and the Toranados were students there. Just do a Google search and you will see what I mean.
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I just don't see anything remotely tight about those dance moves. And the dancers, oh dear, even the Pips put those guys to shame. I wish Michael Jackson had danced to this, LOL!
Archie doesn't even "sing" but so what, this is just bitchen shit.....I love it! Try the other recording, the one with the Christmas lights in time to music; better audio quality.
Bristol based proto-crusty funk band The Moonflowers covered this and I have to say it is rather good. Even for a band fond of stripping off naked at their gigs and wigging out. They were also responsible in part for knock out funk and groove night Dig In at various venues in Bristol.
Oh so funny, first time I heard this song was in the local oldies station, then I was day by day listening to the station waiting for the song to be aired but it never happened for me. I never understood the name, I thought it was Titan up, so that's why I never found it in the records. Some coincidental search in hit lists of 1968 gave me the clue. I like this classic a lot, and I wasn't born by that time...
I picked up the bass because of this song. I met Archie in the mid nineties and told him so. He told me who played on the record but I can't remember his name
Sorry you got me wrong.If I say "almost good as my dog";that's means almost as good MY God!! I LOVE Archie Bell,but ain't a soul in this world better than my dog! I wouldn't humiliate my BEST FRIEND;putting him on American Idol.That show is cruelty to humans...
I wasn't born at the time but I heard it for the first time on the first black radio station in the nation AM1070 WDIA. They still play the classics like this one and we are discovering great old school. Archie Bell and the Drells should sue GS Boys for stealing their dance. I smell lawsuit
This is actually going to the Supreme Court because Archie Bell could categorically prove in this short video, that he and the Drells indeed invented The Stanky Leg! In a side note, my brother-in law, Stan Bradham, used to party with these guys and added some interesting variations to the tighten up dance.
OMG< i'm so glad someone else noticed this. We were at a family party and this song came on from one of my moms mixed CD's and the "older folks" started to dance. I took one look at it and I bust out, "OMG, It's the Stanky LEG!!" So now my cousin has a theory that all the young generation does is take preexisting dances and nasty them up..LOL Good times.
My mom's boyfriend saw these guys after 3 other headliners of the time had cancelled at his senior dance, Greenbriar Hotel @ White Sulphur Springs, WVA. Imagine this...if you will.
As a teen I danced so hard off this song, I got a weeks worth of excercise done. The fun we had was incredible. No fears, and no worries. Didn't need "no drugs" to get high. Life was wonderful and the memories make it even better--to this day. I was on the floor and I did the "tighten up"!
damn sadly i heard the bamboo's version and i thought they made it up... im dumb! i was listening to URGE Radio on my tv and this song came up i was like WOW COOL!
I'm with Coming Up Brass and we got to be Archie's backup band a few years back when he would come to the Carolinas. He's great guy, very down to earth, and his wife was real peach of a lady. `
i rally like the diversity in the band i did not remember it being intergrated thought that was the doobies and kc, archie you are bad thanks for the music and your service to the country
If you dig this song, you should check out Pete Donnelly's Cant Talk At All. Great video and song. Great dancing!
myfavedj 3 weeks ago
They probably learned how to read music. Most people who want to play instruments don't realize that the ability to read is the key. And yes, this tune was cool. I didn't know the bass player was white Cool.
sugarfreechocolate 1 month ago
I always liked this tune. I remember seeing this group on a teenage music TV show and was struck it included white musicians. I hadn't seen many integrated groups before. Let me now I had a chance to play R&B/Soul music too. I guess that's why I like Booker T and the MGs also
mariothepookster 2 months ago
hi,y all
MrOdd4kelly 2 months ago
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God Damn this is funny!
The stereotypical negro boy on the drums dressed in horn rimmed glasses, shirt buttomed to the collar, like he just came in from a Civil Rights march in Alabama! The negro male gayesque dancers in unison wearing white patent shoes and blue zoot suits! The white boys dressed like geeks, and the guy with the Abraham Lincolnesque beard! Too funny!
Love it!
SkidRowJosephine 3 months ago
I love when they make it mellow!!!! This song will get play @ our wedding reception!!!!
TheDvs1der 4 months ago in playlist TheDvs1der's Favorited Videos
George Foreman's favorite group!
mrjoshjones1 4 months ago
@Jeishein would not even worry about a white man, black man, or blue man why???? Because he himself is a MAN. The word nigga is not saying nigger just a stupid ass variation of the original word. And the Honorable W. Deen.Mohammed is a truly TRULY righteous brother far more enlightened the kahn
Robertsmith2002 5 months ago
@jeishein first and foremost Farrakhan has u brain washed broths, trying to find and fight an ancient battle against the white man lol. Secondly the white man has not locked us up and has us programmed and all that BS, 95 percent of the black men that are in jail are there because black on black crime is truly a mothafucka, last but not least, a true strong black man
Robertsmith2002 5 months ago
@Robertsmith2002 abraham lincoln-emancipation proclamation-four score and seventeen years ago our forefathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men(and i assume women)are created equal and due certain unalienable rights. that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...dave kelly, songwriter.abe was a honkey.
Huggs77 2 months ago
The Enemy has you calling Brothers filthy names calculated to keep us locked up, locked down and locked out. You are either one of the Enemy or a Brother who is still unenlightened. In either case don't come at me with your Devilish vocabulary. You got the wrong strong, proud Brother for that.
jeishein 6 months ago
Who says white men can't bass?
pt8648 7 months ago
Under the authority of The Honorable Louis Farrakhan, it must be pointed out that these young Brothers are getting exploited before our eyes. The Enemy took our music, our dancing, our art sold it to America, and paid us pennies on the dollar, if that. The Enemy got these Brothers grinning, while they count the money in the back office.
jeishein 7 months ago
@jeishein nigga puh leaze
lilpoindexter 6 months ago in playlist incognegro
@jeishein The White entertainers were and are exploited just like the Blacks. Elvis was practically broke when he died. He wasn't the only one. Think for yourself sometimes. You're being exploited.
FilmNoirFan1 6 months ago
Wow, super rare live version! Looks like you could strain something doing this dance.
dragonfoe 7 months ago
And Sybil Shepherd was the actress ! Lol. It was a good show - Moonlighting.
nursebrendabe 9 months ago
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Moonlighting was the name of the 80's tv show.
ilovejackandsally10 9 months ago
I remember a TV series with Bruce Willis (he played an investigator with an Actress whose name I do not remember) and he came in the office singing Tighten Up. If anyone remembers this series can you please post the name and also who the actress was? Thank you for the posting.
sixtiessearcher 9 months ago
congratulations to archie! he got married today :) i was the best man
MrSky0224 9 months ago 4
@MrSky0224 boy, im havin trouble getting thru.third try.is archie still playing?if this gets through, please e mail me at odd4kelly@yahoo ,com.thanks d.kelly-songwriter,chgo.
Huggs77 2 months ago
'The Tighten Up' was the sh*t in Houston,TX in summer of 1968.
The song created a new dance by the same name.
Notnannette 10 months ago
The 19 mongs who dislike this need to see a doctor - there is some physiologically wrong with you people...
buh0nero 11 months ago 3
THANKS FOR POSTING !!
1956safari 11 months ago
OHHHHHHHH BOY EVERYONE TIIIIII TEN IT UP!
botvinnik64 1 year ago
@:23 i thought that martin luther king for a second
reknowvator11 1 year ago
Thank You so Much for posting this!
vbgirlification 1 year ago
This is one of my all time favorite songs for sure. i was 10 yrs old and would sing it in the living room and dance the "Tighten Up". Boy those were the days. i am 52 now and have recorded so much music from the past and play it and family gatherings/parties. I told my son (the oldest) to please please save my misic when im gone and pass it down for genorations to come. I LOVE all music.
cisogonzales 1 year ago 2
@cisogonzales let me send you a video or two of my stuff i think youd appreciate. i was dancin to elvis 45s when i was seven.songwriter david kelly chgo.odd4kelly@yahoo.com
Huggs77 2 months ago
The dancing is hype. 5 star funkin'.
kmp3000 1 year ago
music went from being fun like this to "kill that n****" f*** those b****suck this that and the third...tragic.
tybeebeachbunny 1 year ago 2
And not just Tighten up.. The LIVE version of Tighten up. MY MAN!
fbebeats 1 year ago
what happened to black folks being this cool? all we have these days is soulja boy and t-pain.
PinkFloydrulez 1 year ago 2
1972??? It was 1968 - lol
jjdebaca 1 year ago
1972??? It was 1969
jjdebaca 1 year ago
danced on stage with him in 1997 in WV, I was only 9 or 10 but he taught me the tighten up dance
rpulice15 1 year ago
It is soul funky rap?
melomaniac8 1 year ago
That's cute dancing.
Khultan 1 year ago
@Khultan lol
dirkam47 1 year ago
Archie Bell was just being interviewed by George Klein on Sirius Radio Elvis 24/7 very interesting. His brother played in the NFL and another brother in the NBA
grace230608 1 year ago
awful, totally childish
johndaly13909 1 year ago
they're doin the carlton at 2:30
DMEN03 1 year ago 10
@DMEN03 - and cotton eyed joe at 1:30 !!
jmm1000 1 year ago
@jmm1000
The dance to this song had two other name's that I know of.....the Typewriter and the Four Corner's.. The music you have recorded, is truly a treasure...
mycalling52 1 year ago
skinny jeans? lol
DMEN03 1 year ago
just hearin this song for the first time. bangin!!!
DMEN03 1 year ago
@ bswarm187 I saw Archie Bell & the Drells at a club in Lexington, Kentucky in 1973. They were a lot more polished by then.
rfm2ckt 1 year ago
this video promotes the vision of stereotypical blacks..............
oceanbound222 1 year ago
Archie Bell has a brother whom won the Heisman Trophy at what school?
blockstart 1 year ago
During the Disco era I requested this song in NYC studio 54 and it was a still jamming yeah.Tiberious in LA and Sheik Ricks in Chi-town.Had a lot of partying.
TAXENGINEER 1 year ago
There was no faking back then. You either had it or you didn't. Today's music sounds the same and much of it is overshadowed by sexual lyrics and gestures. The artist of old didn't have to rely on that.
Old school ROOOOOCKS!!!!
Janissi42 1 year ago 2
negrotastic!
Mrjacksonll 1 year ago 2
H-Town, I luv 'ya !! 3rd Ward, South Park, 5th Ward, Kashmere Gardens, Acres Homes , The Heights, East End and all other 'hoods, I salute you !!!
techxdabruiser 1 year ago
great song!
allysechaigneau 1 year ago
classic.....
MrChillin65 1 year ago
bloods a rover, wayne tedr ow
abbeystad 1 year ago
This song was in the top 10 in the world charts in 1968
LittleSweety 1 year ago
I LOVE THE WAY THEY MOVE..LOVE IT!!!
tico241000 1 year ago
just love all the exuberance! And not a synthetic sound in sight! It don't come much better than this! GREAT posting!
Toyboy789 1 year ago
tighten up with me (:
eniarrolsti 1 year ago
LOL, I remember some chick with a silver dress messed up this song at Apollo
deep71483 1 year ago
It's all about Houston, Texas
b3tt4fi5h 1 year ago
the breakdown on this song is SOOOOOOOOOO hot to me. you had to have a lot of energy and stamina to be in a singing group back in the day. they danced the whole time. GOOD MUSIC NEVER DIES!
cocodeelux 1 year ago 2
alright now lol.
blueyesoul1l 1 year ago
I luv videos of OLD SCHOOL. Post them when ever you can
MsVwill 1 year ago 2
Is this the "Tighten Up" that the Black Keys are doing on their new album?
mtx22x 1 year ago
This song is so HOT!!! Who cares about the video, I just like hearing them!!!
Dabrightone7 1 year ago
Great Early Funk Song, The Dancing....... Not So Much. The line in "Tighten Up", "we dance just as good as we walk" was a little ironic, given that Bell had been shot in the leg and was consigned to a military hospital bed at the time. LMFAO.
aaronfrazer 1 year ago
this song is badass the vid def takes away from a good version, i like the dancing haha
Ronnyd95 1 year ago
i think he made this up on the spot when he told the promotor he had a song
Dollarbob 2 years ago
what the hell is this?
alhajem 2 years ago
alhajem, I am with you: what the hell is this????? Great song totally ruined by bad film......
love2inifinity 2 years ago
@alhajem an awesome song
kirmokin 1 year ago
funny it is
awesome? Far from it.
alhajem 1 year ago
Bugging you are
Out of your mind? without a doubt
revdoctor 1 year ago
dis song needs 2 tighten up
Dru912 2 years ago
Bad Assssssssssss song
niggerbitchhify 2 years ago
Happy Birthday My Brother Don Suazo. RIP. My brother.. I remember my brother playing this jam on the guitar. I miss you my Don.
brother.
moonabes 2 years ago 2
I think that Archie Bell's band was a university jazz band in Houston...the TSU Tornados
grahamspice 2 years ago
what the hell does having kids have to with this lousy backing band...huh??
RAM71 2 years ago
bass player locked that pocket down wih a pick! hard to groove with a pick
PhuckHue2 2 years ago
if these guys were backing up James Brown, they'd be fired by the third measure. Christ- this band is so weak. It's actually so retarded it's cool. The track of "Tighten Up" is a different story of course- that thing was magic.
RAM71 2 years ago
@RAM71 I hope you don't have kids. If you do...ease up!
jess4metoo 2 years ago
@RAM71 Listen to the studio version. It is a little more polished. The sound system sucked. Not much of a song anyway.
acfinney 2 years ago
Everybody in the band is white except the drummer. Word to the honky nation. Tighten up y'all.
HelmutVonSphincter 2 years ago
Dude thats where they got the "Jerk" dance from see someone always copies the classics and makes their own dance by amping it up alittle...
QuikShotJigen 2 years ago
lol at those 3 dancers
creamsoda808 2 years ago
where do you find a dog with no legs?
right where you left it!
watchu07 2 years ago
i would like miss america tighten up on my johnson
slapjaxx 2 years ago
So what part of what the guys in the front are doing is the actual tighten up?
arseymcass 2 years ago
let this comment in fall in there now, oh yeah!
orgasmtron1 2 years ago
I've heard that it's "just as good as we want" and that it's "just as good as we walk".
Which is right?
LifeOverPrinciple 2 years ago
Is the drummer Steve Irkle? Haha great song
thegunclub123 2 years ago
I remember when this song came out. I was a little girl. My family drove out to Los Angeles, California and while there, we visited family. I remember watching in awe as a relative did the "Tighten Up", as I heard the song for the very first time. Even though I lived around the corner from Texas Southern University, the school of the backing band, the TSU Toronados, and even though I hailed from Houston, I had to go over a thousand miles before I heard the song for the first time. LOL!
swaregirl 2 years ago 17
I met a drummer in Clinton SC who claimed he played the the TUS Toronadas.who back Archie Bell.I Guess he wastelling me the truth.
BeachBootyMan1 2 years ago
I love that story. I lived in Houston and I believe Archie Bell & Drells were from around N. Shepherd area. They were great. Too bad you had to go to "La-La" land before you heard 'em.
WilliamRowlett 2 years ago
@pgh45rpms, the TSU Toronados were from Texas Southern University in Houston.
swaregirl 2 years ago
We still dance just as good as we want in Houston. Even if it's kind of as bad as we want.
yacketycat 2 years ago
This is the song that should be playing in the Titans locker room. Their D needs to tighten up!
jarbon5 2 years ago
They will get back on track in like 9 hours,Jets luck is going to run out this week.
notsovelvet 2 years ago
I am hoping so. With all that money they spent to tighten up the offense, it ironic that they are 0-2 (and comical, too). Anyway, I am hoping that they will get a W this week. Take care:)
jarbon5 2 years ago
Well I was wrong.lol
notsovelvet 2 years ago
We both were, but, oh well!
jarbon5 2 years ago
Is that Earl Palmer on drums?
mrthundaboots 2 years ago
Is that Dennis Coffey on geetar??
chuckcolson 2 years ago
I read that the Drells are the guys dancing to Archie's left. And the guys with the instruments were originally known as the TSU Tornados, from Texas State University.
pgh45rpms 2 years ago
I don't know who the white guys are in this video, but I assure you that they are NOT the TSU Toranados. TSU was at that time 100% Black, and the Toranados were students there. Just do a Google search and you will see what I mean.
swaregirl 2 years ago
I recently met the original bassist from this band! He is kool as hell and still has them funk skills
boardingtj 2 years ago
who waz he ?
KIK1BXR 2 years ago
A great song by a great band.
utah76 2 years ago
The drummer was tight! Archie was good looking.
Treaty4 2 years ago 3
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I just don't see anything remotely tight about those dance moves. And the dancers, oh dear, even the Pips put those guys to shame. I wish Michael Jackson had danced to this, LOL!
Archie doesn't even "sing" but so what, this is just bitchen shit.....I love it! Try the other recording, the one with the Christmas lights in time to music; better audio quality.
misanthrope8 2 years ago
Fellas....."Grab that pretty girl...and y'all get on that dance floor now"
1972....good times....good times....
Anglovox 2 years ago 4
@Anglovox it was 1968 - not 1972 ;)
jjdebaca 1 year ago
I would love to hear "Let's Groove". Does anybody have that? I can't seem to find it.
ladyjae65 2 years ago
bring back memories from the project days in Atlanta. Hot summer days eating watermelon and rent parties and WAOK
Back down memory lane...lol..lol
columbia79 2 years ago
Bristol based proto-crusty funk band The Moonflowers covered this and I have to say it is rather good. Even for a band fond of stripping off naked at their gigs and wigging out. They were also responsible in part for knock out funk and groove night Dig In at various venues in Bristol.
Sadly missed.
5aucyjack 2 years ago
This is still a good tune, Lots of Soul and good beat,another Favorite.
gangs2grace 2 years ago
Oh I get it, it`s one of those "sock it to me" songs.
JackHauss 2 years ago
Great track... but is there a better video version somewhere?
whataboutoddd 2 years ago
Oh so funny, first time I heard this song was in the local oldies station, then I was day by day listening to the station waiting for the song to be aired but it never happened for me. I never understood the name, I thought it was Titan up, so that's why I never found it in the records. Some coincidental search in hit lists of 1968 gave me the clue. I like this classic a lot, and I wasn't born by that time...
Ralpymorris 2 years ago
They need to tighten up the graphics
bswarm187 2 years ago 26
@bswarm187 it looks cool.
S2N3R62 1 year ago
@bswarm187 This is from like 1969.
godssonisme 1 year ago
@bswarm187 This is from like 1969. This is sad though. This song was like #1 on every chart.
godssonisme 1 year ago
This is just good music. :)
worldwide77 2 years ago
im 11 and this is som good shit
mrblackunicorn 2 years ago
16* i love this shit
DeliciousBob 2 years ago
im only 29 but i love this music
JustGod7 2 years ago
Whomever is playing the bass is killin' it! That bass line is sweet - one of the best I've heard.
Janissi42 2 years ago
I picked up the bass because of this song. I met Archie in the mid nineties and told him so. He told me who played on the record but I can't remember his name
scottwardbass 2 years ago 3
"Tighten Up" was frequently part of Prince's set during his stint in Las Vegas. Not sure if he's still playing it though.
jazmaan 2 years ago
JImi Hendrix turned the "Tighten Up" bass line into "Third Stone From the Sun".
jazmaan 2 years ago
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almost as good as my dog
billphoria 2 years ago
Damn billphoria~ Yo Dog that GOOD?!!!
You Need 2 Put his Azz on AMERICAN IDOL........ FO SHIZZLE MY NIZZLE!!!!!!
mssquirrely 2 years ago
LOL, that was hillarious!! (You see he didn't respond!!)
TheNaturalWoman 2 years ago
Sorry you got me wrong.If I say "almost good as my dog";that's means almost as good MY God!! I LOVE Archie Bell,but ain't a soul in this world better than my dog! I wouldn't humiliate my BEST FRIEND;putting him on American Idol.That show is cruelty to humans...
billphoria 2 years ago
That drummer is GREAT! I love him. I was in a band in college and played bass guitar on this song. Not really too difficult but a lot of fun.
WilliamRowlett 2 years ago
Beautiful music, Archie Bell was the man!
Dlatintouch 2 years ago
I wasn't born at the time but I heard it for the first time on the first black radio station in the nation AM1070 WDIA. They still play the classics like this one and we are discovering great old school. Archie Bell and the Drells should sue GS Boys for stealing their dance. I smell lawsuit
21sttnmemphis 2 years ago
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21sttnmemphis 2 years ago
this song is the shit
kahlil5294 2 years ago 6
This is actually going to the Supreme Court because Archie Bell could categorically prove in this short video, that he and the Drells indeed invented The Stanky Leg! In a side note, my brother-in law, Stan Bradham, used to party with these guys and added some interesting variations to the tighten up dance.
mianno58 2 years ago 2
OMG< i'm so glad someone else noticed this. We were at a family party and this song came on from one of my moms mixed CD's and the "older folks" started to dance. I took one look at it and I bust out, "OMG, It's the Stanky LEG!!" So now my cousin has a theory that all the young generation does is take preexisting dances and nasty them up..LOL Good times.
calibeach1 2 years ago 2
was reading an old, tattered copy of 'Dispatches' and saw this song in the front....what an era...
SLACKER614 2 years ago
Oh ok, yo thanks man! The draft ruined a lot of lies!
aldeb456 2 years ago
I finally found this video of the audio I have :) KEWL!!!!!!!!!!
chadastanley 2 years ago
this is a song for Sam Farha
olbatar 2 years ago
My mom's boyfriend saw these guys after 3 other headliners of the time had cancelled at his senior dance, Greenbriar Hotel @ White Sulphur Springs, WVA. Imagine this...if you will.
thummajamma 2 years ago
love it
missybest77 2 years ago
As a teen I danced so hard off this song, I got a weeks worth of excercise done. The fun we had was incredible. No fears, and no worries. Didn't need "no drugs" to get high. Life was wonderful and the memories make it even better--to this day. I was on the floor and I did the "tighten up"!
comando0110 2 years ago 2
sooooo goooood
qiput 2 years ago
i dance just as good as i want to... i think i have little desire though... :(
rmediainc 3 years ago
You know Arche Bell's brother Ricky Bell was a runningback for the Tampa Bay Buccanners in the late 70's and early 80's.
afannell 3 years ago 3
it's a shame that the nam war screwed his life up! such talent!
jache77 3 years ago
Vietnam screwed up his life? How?
aldeb456 2 years ago
Nothing like the old School wow!
Shellydelite 3 years ago 2
Excellent!! Thank you for sharing!
SandyCheeks68 3 years ago
damn sadly i heard the bamboo's version and i thought they made it up... im dumb! i was listening to URGE Radio on my tv and this song came up i was like WOW COOL!
bow2urepnoy 3 years ago
damn yall r old lol jp....nuthin better than old school
COO113 3 years ago
staggering mate - what a great posting - luv this tune but never seen that piece of video - even with the slighty wonky sound it's brilliant !!
LQUID8R 3 years ago
You can do it...just don't get too tight...
chevy396man 3 years ago 3
1968- I was dancing on my Momma's furniture!!!
dohertykaki 3 years ago
1968 -- That was where I was dancing as well, when my mother wasn't watching (at four you have to).
Yesimustbestupid 3 years ago
yeah!
dohertykaki 3 years ago
1968 - I was doin the Tighten Up in my momma's belly. LOL X-D
antitreakmod 3 years ago 2
I'm with Coming Up Brass and we got to be Archie's backup band a few years back when he would come to the Carolinas. He's great guy, very down to earth, and his wife was real peach of a lady. `
Tboneguy3 3 years ago
This song cracks me up..common now..lets do the tighten up!
Shadofx 3 years ago 2
I got to dance up on the stage with archie in memphis last year, at the Ponderosa Stomp. fantastic and still rockin'
claudia723 3 years ago
We did the "Tighten Up" in Chicago in 1968 on WJPC -Thom Joyner's old station.
I'm 45 and my older sister (who was 17 in 1968) and my older brother (then 15) showed me
(then 5 years old) how to do the "Tighten Up").
Chicago went crazy over the Tighten Up. I still stop and get chill bumps 40 years later
chicago70s 3 years ago 2
The drummer is SICK.
Altus84 3 years ago 2
Not a bad song, but a silly-looking dance.
yobonab 3 years ago
le plus beau groupe rythmique du monde !
strawberry29000 3 years ago
im in the proses of makeing a skate vidio with this song in it
hazemage 3 years ago
Fishsticks!
thejeep 3 years ago 2
i rally like the diversity in the band i did not remember it being intergrated thought that was the doobies and kc, archie you are bad thanks for the music and your service to the country
jeanise10 3 years ago
You are right. The TSU Toranados were Black. I don't know who the White fellows are.
swaregirl 2 years ago
i don't know what everyone is arguing about but, hey, this is a kickass song.
godfugitive 3 years ago 2
My dad came in second in a dance contest after dancing to this song.
Yea, he's cool...and kinda old.
:P
this song is great.
Lucyindasky427 3 years ago 3
real music, no digital programs or pro
-tunes! everything you hear is from the heart and soul!!!!! too bad todays music doesn't have it
whipit4me 3 years ago 4
I agree 100%. Archie Bell is an honest act, true talent, great sound, and it felt good!!
WeekendinLondon 3 years ago