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"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 .
"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, 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 number 12, and it has become a soul classic over ...
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
It provided them with a dance/pop success that set up a bigger worldwide hit with the second single, "Moving On Up". [6] The album Elegant Slumming went into the Top 5 on release and peaked at No. 2, remaining on the chart until the following summer and later winning the band a Mercury Music Prize. [7]
The Dawn of Man - a parody of the opening sequence of 2001: A Space Odyssey, involving ape-like creatures having their first contact with a television set;; The Hitch-hiker - a hippie-ish hitch-hiker (played by songwriter and the film's soundtrack supervisor Buzzy Linhart) is picked up by a pretty woman who suggests an escapade in the woods, leading to them both getting naked and the hitch ...
Another editor of Music Week, Andy Beevers, named it Pick of the Week in the category of Dance, describing it as "upbeat soul, driven by an inventive house mix", that "should make the mainstream charts". [9] A reviewer from The Network Forty stated that it "picks up right where their first smash, "Moving On Up", left off. Huge in the UK, M ...
The song features pounding italo-piano chords and is laden with synths alongside an insistent bassline and classic house beat. Lyrically, it is in total contrast to the angry "breaking free" sung in "Moving on Up" to looking forward to coming home to one glorious night when singer Heather Small promises to "make you scream aloud with joy" – but "there'll be no day there'll be no night".
"Moving On Up (On the Right Side)" peaked at #42 on the UK Singles Chart when it was released in March 1996 as a single. The song did not have a promotional video made to accompany the release but it received support from urban radio which helped the release chart inside the top 75.