Move On Up

" 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 not released as a  single in the United States, but an edited version of the song spent ten weeks in the top 50 of the  UK Singles Chart, peaking at #12.

==Other versions and covers == In 2001 Bran Van 3000 recorded "Astounded", which featured Curtis Mayfield singing the lyrics of "Move On Up". In 2008, it was used at the end of the movie Semi-Pro, starring Will Ferrell and was covered byLettuce featuring Dwele on Rage! album, as well as Los Fabulosos Cadillacs on the 2009 album El Arte De La Elegancia De LFC (under the Spanish title "Vamos Ya"). It was covered by The Flying Lizards on their 1981 Fourth Wall LP.[1]. It was covered by The Jam on the 1982 “Beat Surrender” EP[2]. Bandleader Paul Weller disbanded The Jam in 1982 to launch his new group The Style Council in 1983. A live version of "Move On Up" was also featured on the Deluxe Edition of their 1985 Our Favourite Shop release. It was featured prominently in the Wire episode Margin of Error (The Wire), as the ex-con Dennis "Cutty" Wisejogs across town listening to the song on Election Day.[3]

In 1979, disco trio, Destination, recorded the song, incorporating the song, "Keep on Pushing", a 1964 hit by The Impressions. Along with the tracks, "Up Up Up" and "Destination's Theme, "Move On Up", hit number one on the disco chart for four weeks.[4]  It peaked at number sixty-eight on the soul singles chart.[5]

"Move On Up" is regularly featured in concerts by the Hip-Hop group The Roots.

It was also heavily sampled for the Kanye West song "Touch the Sky", from West's album Late Registration.

Richard Elliot made a smooth jazz instrumental version of the song, featured on his 2009 album Rock Steady.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.190340042114258px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;">Angelique Kidjo made an African version of Move On Up featuring Bono and John Legend on her album Oyo, and the song was performed with all the artists as the finale for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Concert. ==Use of the song<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;direction:ltr;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left:-0.25em;margin-right:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);"> == <p style="line-height:19.190340042114258px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;">The song is played after each Arsenal FC game played at the Emirates Stadium, and is the theme tune of the Tuesday Club podcast with Alan Davies.<sup class="Template-Fact" style="line-height:1em;white-space:nowrap;">[citation needed]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.190340042114258px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;">It is featured in the 1974 U.S. film "The Groove Tube" and is also featured in the 2002 British film Bend It Like Beckham.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.190340042114258px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px;">Late Australian professional skateboarder, Lewis Marnell, used the song as the soundtrack to his introductory video part for the Almost Skateboards company—the part was featured in the Cheese and Crackersvideo.