Archie Bell & The Drells - Tighten Up At The Disco b/w Be Thankful For What You Got

Tracklist:

A: Tighten Up At The Disco

B: Be Thankful For What You Got

Label: Mad About Records
Catalog: MAR086

Import

By the end of the 1970s, Archie and his crew had achieved enviable status in the Philly International organization. “Strategy“ was one of the last LPs for the label and the line-up included the dancefloor anthem ‘Tighten Up At The Disco’, which finally has its first ever release on 7" single.

Way back in the 1970s, William DeVaughn, a Washington D.C. government worker and aspiring singer-songwriter saw an ad in a magazine for Philadelphia’s Omega Sound. This record operation had a unique business model as they would seek out artists then charge them to record at the studio. DeVaughn sent Omega some demos and eventually paid $900 so he could record “Be Thankful for What You Got,” a re-written version of his original “A Cadillac Don’t Come Easy,” in 1972.

In the same year that the original was released The Intruders, another great Philly International group did a more up-tempo version of this classic song. It's the closing track on the LP “Energy of love” LP by The Intruders Lp has never been released on 7” either.