Yellow Magic Orchestra - Tighten Up (Japanese Gentlemen Stand Up Please!) (1980)

Track 4 on ×∞Multiplies (1980)
Written by Archie Bell/Billy Butler
Featuring Katsuya Kobayashi and Masato Ibu on vocals

LYRICS:
Hi, everybody!
We are YMO from Tokyo, Japan
We don't sightseeing
We dance! You understand?
We are the number one dance band in Tokyo. (aha!)
Now, 'Tighten Up' was very popular in Houston, Texas with Archie Bell & the Drells
Now, we are the number one! I think so, ha ha. (yeah!)
Tighten up, Takahashi!
Sock it to me, Sakamoto!
Hurry up with the bass, Papa-san!

Oh yeah, uh huh, here we go!
Come on, everybody
You and me
Sock it to me, Sakamoto
Oi! Oi!

Japanese Gentlemen, stand up please
Do the tighten up

[rightweaponry]

"Sock it to me Sakamoto!" randomly pops in my head and I have to say it out loud and nobody ever gets it, I swear one day someone will get it and say "Tighten up Takahashi!"

[jpntechnostream]

01:50 あたりから「NO, NO, NO　ちょっと！NOって！」と言ってるのが
後の大御所俳優・伊武雅刀です。

[xyanide]

Imagine them editing and mixing this shit while laughing their asses off.

[JOHNPETTY-qm]

As a kid growing up in 1980's Newark NJ, the thing to do for teens was have a turntable and listen to the latest. My next door neighbor had one and listened to all types of music, if it wasn't for him i don't think i would have ever heard this awesome awesome RIP MICHAEL NIX.

[dplatt]

This is the craziest shit I've ever heard

[larrygoldstein]

Funk disco electro it was all heavenly. Take us back!

[myujiccsstation]

YMO's sound compsing ability and its sound ensemble capability is still amazing!

[ECG]

Awesome take on Archie Bell's dance floor classic by YMO

[osapogostoso]

I feel proud that these guys would make a cover for a song from a group that came my state even tho they have nothing to do with me

[jaredquinert]

The sound of Pizzicato V, 10 years before Pizzicato V. Every time I dig through the YMO back catalogue it blows my mind how much Japanese pop was influenced by them.

[ethanoreilly]

This song makes my dance like a lunatic:)

[johnwilson]

Oh Hell Yeah!!!! If you can listen to this and not start dancing around like a crazy person you are probably dead!

[eighty]

You can't tell me Nintendo didn't ask Charles Martinet to emulate this voice when they casted him for Mario.

[musiclove]

Oh wow, never knew Mario was part of YMO.

[macbig]

Such a shy Japanese gentleman has now changed its image. I don't have a camera and I don't have glasses There are no people who have teeth. I'm no longer so embarrassed.This is a parody song.