DESCRIPTION:
"Move On Up" is a song by Curtis Mayfield from his 1970 debut album Curtis. Nearly 9 minutes long in its album version, it was released as a single in the United States (Curtom 1974), but failed to chart. An edited version of the song spent 10 weeks in the top 50 of the UK Singles Chart, peaking at #12 and it has become a soul music classic over the years.

In 1979, disco trio, Destination, recorded a mashup, incorporating "Keep on Pushing", a 1964 hit by The Impressions, also written by Mayfield. Along with the tracks, "Up Up Up" and "Destination's Theme", "Move On Up", hit number one on the disco chart for four weeks. It peaked at number sixty-eight on the soul singles chart.

Kanye West heavily sampled the song for his 2005 single "Touch the Sky", using a slowed down version of the horns.

Destination was a disco studio group from New York who had two chart entries: In 1979, "Move On Up" / "Up Up Up" / "Destination's Theme," which spent four weeks at number one on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, and #68 on the Hot Soul Singles chart. Their second release : "My Number One Request"/"From Mortishia To Gomez Addams" (which consisted of parts from the original Addams Family theme song) spent three weeks at number one on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1980. A trio, Destination consisted of Danny Lugo, Kathleen Bradley (who would later become one of "Barker's Beauties" on The Price Is Right) and Love Chyle Theus.

Hush now child and don't you cry
Your folks might understand ya by and by
Just move on up towards your destination
For you may find from time to time complications

Bite your lip and take a trip
Though there may be wet road ahead
And ya cannot slip
Just move on up and peace you will find

Into the steeple of beautiful people
Where there's only one kind
So hush now child and don't you cry
Your folks might understand ya by and by

Move on up and keep on wishing
Remember your dreams is your only scheme
So keep on pushing

Take nothing less and at second best
Do not obey, you must have your say
You can pass the test

Just move on up to a greater day
But just you gonna make it,
You put your mind to it, you can surely do it

Just move on up, move on up
But move on up, oh child ya just a move on up
But move on up, oh now move on up

So hush now child and don't cry
Your folks might understand ya by and by

Just move on up towards your destination
For you may find from time to time complication

Move on up, move on up
Move on up, oh child just a move on up
Move on up, oh yea just a move on up
Aaah yea just a move on up