Get It Up

"Get It Up" is a song by The Time, from their 1981 debut album, and is their debut single. Like most of the album, the song was recorded in Prince's home studio in April 1981, and was produced, arranged, composed and performed by Prince with Morris Day later adding his lead vocals. Revolution keyboardist Doctor Fink provided synth solos on the track, uncredited.

The funk-pop number relies on synthesizers and contains numerous solos throughout the song. The song's propelled by a strong bass line and contains live drums and handclaps. A raunchy guitar solo provides a rock element to the funky track. "Get It Up" is basically an ode to sex and Day's attempts to get some. Prince's vocals are very apparent in the song, both in the background and the lead at times.

"Get It Up" was only released as a 7" single with the poppy "After Hi School" as its B-side. "After Hi School", while not an outstanding effort was composed by Dez Dickerson and is perhaps the strongest pop effort on the album. Along with the track "Cool", "Get It Up" peaked at number 6 on the Billboard Hot R&B singles chart, and at number sixteen on the Disco Top 80 chart.^[1] The full version of "Get It Up" was later a B-side for the 12" single of "Ice Cream Castles" in 1984. "Get It Up" is one of The Time's more popular numbers, and a live version of the song recorded at the House of Blues in 1998 was included on Morris Day's 2004 album, It's About Time where it segues into "777-9311".

"Get It Up"

Single by TLC

from the album Poetic Justice soundtrack

Released

June 6, 1993

Format

CD single

Recorded

1993

Genre

Length

4:25

TLC singles chronology

Music video
"Hat 2 da Back" (1992)	"Get It Up" (1993)	"Sleigh Ride" (1993)
"Get It Up" on YouTube

Poetic Justice track listing

"Get It Up"
(1)

"Indo Smoke" - Mista Grimm
(2)

TLC version

"Get It Up" was covered by girl group TLC for the Poetic Justice soundtrack becoming a major hit for the group and was later included in TLC's greatest hits album, Now and Forever: The Hits. The video for TLC's "Get It Up" was shot in June 1993.

Charts

Chart (1993)	Peak position
US Billboard Hot 100	42
US Billboard Hot R&B Singles^[2]	15
US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales	3
US Billboard Rhythmic Top 40	14

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

References

↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 260.
↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 581.

The Time

Morris Day Jerome Benton Jimmy Jam Terry Lewis Jellybean Johnson Monte Moir Ricky "Freeze" Smith Stanley "Chance" Howard Torrell "Tory" Ruffin Jesse Johnson Paul Peterson Mark Cardenez Jerry Hubbard

Studio albums	The Time (1981) What Time Is It? (1982) Ice Cream Castle (1984) Pandemonium (1990) Condensate [as "The Original 7ven"] (2011)

Singles	"Get It Up" "Cool" "Girl" "777-9311" "The Walk" "Gigolos Get Lonely Too" "Ice Cream Castles" "Jungle Love" "The Bird" "Jerk Out" "Chocolate" "Shake!"

TLC songs

Discography

Ooooooohhh... On the TLC Tip	"Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg" "Hat 2 da Back" "What About Your Friends" "Baby-Baby-Baby"

CrazySexyCool	"Creep" "Diggin' on You" "Red Light Special" "Waterfalls" "If I Was Your Girlfriend"

FanMail	"Silly Ho" "No Scrubs" "I'm Good at Being Bad" "Unpretty" "Dear Lie" "What It Ain't (Ghetto Enuff)"

3D	"Girl Talk" "Hands Up" "Damaged"

Now & Forever: The Hits	"Come Get Some" "I Bet"

Collaborations	"Freedom (Theme from Panther)" "What's Going On" (Dupri’s R&B Mix) "Let's Just Do It" "Crooked Smile"

Non-album songs	"Sleigh Ride" "Get It Up"

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