Year : 1968
Label : Atlantic
Genre : Soul
Style : Funk/Soul
Debut album of Archie Bell & The Drells supported by the Atlantic session musicians including their Billaboard number-one single "Tighten Up". The Drells is a Soul vocal band formed in 1966 in Houston, Texas, led by Archie Bell surrounded by James Wise, Willie Parnell & Billy Butler. In 1968, they sign on Atlantic Records which brings them the writing star duo Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff for their second album "I Can't Stop Dancing". During a decade they released seven albums whose three for Atlantic before to split in 1979. Titles include the two Soul Stax Records classics, "Knock On Wood" (Eddie Floyd), "In the Midnight Hour" (Wilson Pickett) and original compositions written by Archie Bell (When You Left Heartache Began, A Soldier's Prayer, 1967).
