Archie Bell告老東家

R＆B合唱團 Archie Bell＆The Drells的主唱歌手Archie Bell ， 9月6日在休士頓控告費城國際唱片公司和它們的老闆-唱片製作人Kenny Gamble與Leon Huff，指控他們未付1970與1980年代他所錄製的唱片的版稅。


Archie Bell＆The Drells是以1968年的連續二週冠軍曲Tighten Up成名的R＆B合唱團，原屬Atlantic唱片公司旗下，1977年轉Philadelphia International Records費城國際唱片公司，但歌唱事業已走下坡。

Archie Bell 1944年出生於德州Henderson，他與The Drells合唱團在R＆B歌曲的歷年暢銷歌星合唱團排行榜名列第263名，成名曲Tighten Up被收進搖滾樂名人堂，在滾石雜誌500大歌曲榜獲得265名。

Tighten Up

Archie Bell and the Drells



Hi everybody. I'm Archie Drell and the Drells from Houston, Texas. We don't

only sing but we dance just as good as we walk. In Houston we just started a

new dance called the Tighten Up. This is the music we tighten up to.



First tighten up on the drums. Come on now drummer. I want you to tighten

it up for me now. oh yeah

Tighten up on that bass now. Tighten it up. ha ha Yeah

Now let that guitar fall in. Oh yeah

Tighten up on that organ now.



Ya, 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. Make it mellow.



Let's tighten up now. Do the tighten up.

Everybody can do it now. So let's do it.

We're gonna tighten up. Let's do the tighten up.

You can do it now. So baby get to it.



Let's do your left now. Let's do your right.

You can do it. But don'tcha just do it light.

Come on and tighten up. Tighten it up now.



Come on now drum. Tighten it up.

Tighten up that bass. Oh yeah

Now look here. I want that guitar to fall in on that.

Tighten it up now. Oh yeah

Now tighten it up organ.

There everybody, tighten it up.



Now look here. We gonna make it mellow for ya now.

We gonna make it mellow now.

Tighten up. You can tighten up.