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He has had several gallery shows, and designed the cover for Big Audio Dynamite's album, Tighten Up, Vol.
The group's commercial breakthrough came in 2010 with Brothers, which along with its popular single " Tighten Up ", won three Grammy Awards.
The song " Tighten Up ", the only track from the album produced by Danger Mouse, preceded the album as the lead single.
The music video for " Tighten Up ", directed by Chris Marrs Piliero, won the 2010 MTV Video Music Award for Breakthrough Video.
At the 53rd Grammy Awards, Brothers and its songs won awards in three of the five categories they were nominated in ; the band received honors for Best Alternative Music Album ( for Brothers ) and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal ( for " Tighten Up "), while Michael Carney, the band's creative director and Patrick's brother, won Best Recording Package for designing the artwork for Brothers.
Monetary success came from releasing Jamaican music supplied by producers such as Duke Reid, Byron Lee and Leslie Kong, in a series of popular, budget-priced compilations such as Tighten Up, Club Reggae and Reggae Chartbusters.
Katz has contributed to several radio and television documentaries, including Blood & Fire: Roots, Reggae, Rastafari ( BBC Radio 2, 2007 ), Tighten Up: The Trojan Story ( BBC Radio 2, 2006 ), Can ’ t Take It With You: Bob Marley ( BBC Bristol, 2003 ), Pioneers: Lee Perry ( Channel 4, 2002 ), and Choice World Clubbing ( BBC Choice, 2000 ).
It contains a mixture of songs and instrumentals by YMO ( including a humorous reworking of Archie Bell & the Drells ' " Tighten Up "), interspersed with comedy sketches.
The band's hits include " Tighten Up ", " I Can't Stop Dancing " ( both 1968 ), " There's Gonna Be A Showdown ", " Girl You're Too Young " ( 1969 ), " Here I Go Again " ( also a UK hit in 1972 ), " Soul City Walk " ( 1976 ), " Let's Groove ", " Everybody Have A Good Time " ( 1977 ), and " Don't Let Love Get You Down " ( 1986 ).
They signed with the Houston-based record label, Ovide, in 1967 and recorded a number of songs, including " She's My Woman " and " Tighten Up ", which was recorded in October 1967 at the first of several sessions in which the Drells were backed by the instrumental group the T. S. U. Toronadoes.
Bell's promoter, Skipper Lee Frazier, unsuccessfully began pushing the flip side of " Tighten Up ", but at the recommendation of a friend gave the other side a try.
" Tighten Up " was written by Archie Bell and Billy Butler, contained Archie Bell prodding listeners to dance to the funky musical jam developed by the T. S. U. Toronadoes, and it became a hit in Houston before it was picked up by Atlantic Records for distribution in April 1968.
It also appeared on the compilation album Soul Of Jamaica a. k. a. Come Rock With Me In Jamaica, and on the Trojan compilation album, Tighten Up, Volume 1 ( both 1968 ).
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