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Movin' On stars Claude Akins as old-time independent "big-rig" truck driver Sonny Pruitt, and Frank Converse as his college-educated co-driver Will Chandler. The theme song, "Movin' On", was written and performed by Merle Haggard, and was a No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in July 1975.
Originally, it was the theme song to the 1974-1976 NBC-TV series of the same name and references the lead characters of the series, Sonny Pruitt and Will Chandler, by name. A full-length version of the song was released as a single in 1975, and it topped the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart that July.
"Moving On Up" is the seventh overall single from British band M People, and the second single from their second album, Elegant Slumming (1993). Written by band members Mike Pickering and Paul Heard , and produced by M People, it was released on 13 September 1993 by Deconstruction .
It's hard to do a truly iconic song justice, but Jennifer Hudson delivered Wednesday night with a spot-on performance of "Movin' On Up" during ABC's "Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman ...
DuBois additionally cowrote and sang the theme song "Movin' On Up" for The Jeffersons, which aired from 1975 until 1985. [9] After beginning her career on the stage in the early 1960s, DuBois appeared on television shows and in films into the mid-2010s.
The final #1 song from the album was its title track, which was the full-length version of a song that Haggard had recorded as the theme song to the TV series Movin' On starring Claude Akins and Frank Converse, which ran for two seasons on NBC. "Movin' On" became Haggard's seventh consecutive #1 hit and thirteenth since 1970.
Moving On Up or Movin' On Up may refer to: "Moving On Up" (M People song), 1993, also covered by Belgian singer Roselle "Moving On Up (On the Right Side)", a 1996 song by Beverley Knight "Movin' On Up" (Primal Scream song), a 1991 song by Primal Scream from Screamadelica "Movin' On Up", a song by Azealia Banks, 2018
The song's hook interpolates "Movin' On Up", the theme song of the television sitcom The Jeffersons. [1] The show's star Sherman Hemsley appears in the music video for "Batter Up", [ 1 ] initially as a sports announcer and later dancing with members of St. Lunatics.