Move On Up



"Move On Up" is a song by Curtis Mayfield from his 1970 debut album Curtis. Nearly nine minutes long on the 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 in 1971, peaking at #12, and it has become a soul music classic over the years.

In popular culture and covers
In 1979, disco trio, Destination, recorded a medley, 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.

Kentucky-based jam-band My Morning Jacket frequently covers the song in their live shows.

Just Blaze heavily sampled the song for Kanye West's 2006 single "Touch the Sky", using a slowed-down version of the horns.

In 2006 the song appeared in the HBO drama The Wire in the episode Margin of Error

English football club Arsenal have also adopted the song as a popular post game anthem at their Emirates Stadium.

The song appears on the soundtrack of 2002 British film Bend it Like Beckham with Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley

The song is also in the tracklist of Ubisoft videogame "Watch Dogs" on Ps4 (published in 2014), and can be played when driving in the game.