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"Tighten Up" - Maceo with The Flames (1968) The funkiest cover of them all!
Original by "Archie Bell and The Drells". Soon after the recording of his song, fall '67, Bell was drafted into the U.S. Army and began serving in Vietnam...while it became a n°1 hit. As he was not able to tour with his band and perform on stage, numerous covers where made of his song, such as this one.
Waymon Reed (solo), Richard "Kush" Griffith on Trumpet; Levi Rasbury Valve Trombone; Fred Wesley Trombone; Maceo Parker, MC, Tenor Sax; St. Clair Pinckney, Bariton Sax; Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis, Organ; Jimmy Nolen, Guitar; Alphonso Kellum, Bass; Clyde Stubblefield, Drums.

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