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Destination Move On Up / Destination Theme 12" 1979 # 1 Disco Hit DJ Promo
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November 17, 2024
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December 11, 2023
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Destination Move On Up / Destination Theme 12" 1979 # 1 Disco Hit DJ Promo Curtis Mayfield's Hit gets the Disco / Dance Floor treatment and scores big with Killer timbale break
n 1979, trio recorded a , incorporating "Keep on Pushing", a 1964 hit by , 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. Destination was a group from who had two chart entries: In 1979, "" / "Up Up Up" / "Destination's Theme," which spent four weeks at number one on the chart, and reached #68 on the chart.
Move On Up" is a song by from his 1970 debut album, . Nearly nine minutes long on the album version, it was released as a in the United States, but failed to chart. An edited version of the song spent 10 weeks in the top 50 of the in 1971, peaking at number 12, and it has become a soul classic over the years. In 2021, it was listed at No. 474 on 's "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
