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Archie Bell & the Drells - Tighten Up (live)

Archie Bell is 81 today! Check out this live on TV version of Tighten Up. Listen to the funky drummer!

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Archie Bell & The Drells - Tighten Up
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September 1, 2026 at 10:28 AM
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As I’ve staggeringly reached 1.5 thousand followers…thank you all by the way…it’s time to get #Funky
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Archie Bell & The Drells - Tighten up (1968)
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July 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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1968 HITS ARCHIVE: Tighten Up - Archie Bell & The Drells (a #1 record--mono 45 single version)
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February 14, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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Archie Bell & the Drells - Tighten Up, Pt. 1

Archie Bell is celebrating a birthday today! This one still makes me move. Happy birthday, Archie!

#ArchieBell #MusicBirthday #TightenUp #MusicSky #SoulMusic

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Tighten Up, Pt. 1
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September 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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My Balloon's Going Up · #ArchieBell and The Drells
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My Balloon's Going Up
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June 30, 2026 at 12:45 AM
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Born 1 Sept 1944 - Archie Bell, lead singer with The Drells. Archie formed the group in 1966 with his friends James Wise, Willie Parnell and Billy Butler. They had the 1969 hit album 'There's Gonna Be a Showdown', which contained the 1972 UK No. 11 single, 'Here I Go Again'. #ArchieBell
September 1, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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[There's Gonna Be A] Showdown
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April 4, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Archie Bell & The Drells - Tighten up (1968)
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December 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Archie Bell & The Drells - Tighten Up, Pt. 1

Willie Parnell - one of the Drells - was born today in 1945.

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Tighten Up, Pt. 1
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April 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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........1/9 posting this again.....and again.....and again #ArchieBell #northernsoul www.youtube.com/watch?v=45wY...
Archie Bell & The Drells - Here I Go Again
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September 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox

Archie Bell & the Drells:
🎵 Tighten Up (Part 1)

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▶️ Song/Cover on Bandcamp:
Archie Bell & The Drells - Tighten Up (Sam Shelley Feel The Funk Edit), by Sam Shelley
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September 24, 2026 at 3:37 AM
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Today's "oldie but goodie" is "Tighten Up" by Archie Bell & the Drells, 1968.

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Tighten Up, Pt. 1
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October 8, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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Archie Bell, American solo singer and former lead singer of Archie Bell & The Drells, was born on Sep. 1, 1944. #ArchieBell

Archie Bell and The Drells - "Tighten Up" (Archie Bell, Billy Buttler) (1968)
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Tighten Up (Remastered)
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September 1, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Happy Birthday. Today, Sept 1, 1944 – #ArchieBell, American soul singer-songwriter and musician ( #ArchieBellandtheDrells ) was born.

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Archie Bell & The Drells - Tighten Up
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September 1, 2026 at 9:54 AM
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #AfternoonShow

Archie Bell & the Drells:
🎵 Tighten Up

#ArchieBell #theDrells

▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify

▶️ Song on #Bandcamp:
Archie Bell & The Drells - Tighten Up (Sam Shelley Feel The Funk Edit), by Sam Shelley
track by Sam Shelley
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April 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #AfternoonShow

Archie Bell & the Drells:
🎵 Tighten Up

#ArchieBell #theDrells

▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify

▶️ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:
Archie Bell & The Drells - Tighten Up (Sam Shelley Feel The Funk Edit), by Sam Shelley
track by Sam Shelley
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July 28, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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🔊 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix

Archie Bell & the Drells:
🎵 Tighten Up

#ArchieBell #theDrells

▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
▶️ Song on #Bandcamp:
Archie Bell & The Drells - Tighten Up (Sam Shelley Feel The Funk Edit), by Sam Shelley
track by Sam Shelley
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April 18, 2024 at 8:46 AM
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Born 1 Sept 1944 - Archie Bell, lead singer with The Drells. Archie formed the group in 1966 with his friends James Wise, Willie Parnell and Billy Butler. They had the 1969 hit album 'There's Gonna Be a Showdown', which contained the 1972 UK No.11 single, 'Here I Go Again'. #ArchieBell
Archie Bell and The Drells had the 1969 hit album 'There's Gonna Be a Showdown'.
September 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw

Archie Bell & the Drells:
🎵 Here I Go Again

#6music #ArchieBell #theDrells

▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify

▶️ Song on #Spotify:
Here I Go Again
Archie Bell & The Drells · There's Gonna Be A Showdown · Song · 1969
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September 11, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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Happy Birthday #archiebell #archiebellandthedrells
September 1, 2026 at 9:46 AM
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July 26, 2026 at 9:13 AM
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw

Archie Bell & the Drells:
🎵 Here I Go Again

#6music #ArchieBell #theDrells

▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify

▶️ Song on #Spotify:
Here I Go Again
Archie Bell & The Drells · There's Gonna Be A Showdown · Song · 1969
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July 23, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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Extrait de Tighten Up sorti en 1968
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Archie Bell & The Drells - Tighten up (1968)
"Tighten Up" was a 1968 song by Houston, Texas based R&B vocal group Archie Bell & the Drells. It reached #1 on both the Billboard R&B and pop charts in the spring of 1968. It is ranked #265 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of "the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" and is one of the earliest funk hits in music history. "Tighten Up" was written by Archie Bell and Billy Buttier. It was one of the first songs that Archie Bell & the Drells recorded, in a session in 1967, along with a number of songs including "She's My Woman". Soon afterwards Bell was drafted into the U.S. Army and began serving in Vietnam. The song became a hit in Houston, and was picked up by Atlantic Records for distribution in April 1968. By the summer it topped both the Billboard R&B and pop charts. It also sold a million copies by May 1968, gaining an R.I.A.A. gold disc. 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. The introduction features Bell introducing himself as being from Houston, Texas. According to the Billboard Book of Number One Hits by Fred Bronson, Bell heard a comment after the Kennedy assassination in Dallas, that "nothing good ever came out of Texas." Bell wanted his listeners to know "we were from Texas and we were good." The song described an accompanying dance that the band had invented, also called the "Tighten Up"; this dance became popular concurrently with the song. The phenomenal success of the single prompted the band to rush out an album, despite their incapacitated leader. In 1969 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. All music or related performances remain the sole property of their respective copyright holders. No video clips are for sale, nor do they imply challenge to ownerships. They are intended strictly for entertainment and educational purposes only.
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February 9, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Tighten Up - Archie Bell and The Drells
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March 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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#TightenUp people!
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Tighten Up - Archie Bell and The Drells
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April 18, 2026 at 4:18 AM