Keep On Truckin'

Album: Eddie Kendricks (1973)
Charted: 18 1
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  • Ooh...
    Ooh...
    Ooh...

    Keep on truckin', baby
    I got to keep on truckin'
    Got to get to your good lovin'
    Huh...huh...huh...huh...huh...

    Shame
    A double shame on me, yeah
    Love
    Love, I let it control me, yeah

    From just one kiss I am inspired
    To lovers in time there's a fire

    And I'll keep on truckin', baby
    I got to keep on truckin'
    I got to get to your good lovin'
    Huh...huh...huh...huh...huh...

    Baby, its bad
    It's so hard to bear
    Yes, babe
    You're hard to bear

    I've got a fever rising with desire
    It's my love jones and I feel like I'm on fire

    And I'll keep on keep on truckin', baby
    I got to keep on truckin'
    Got to get to your good lovin'
    Huh...huh...huh...huh...huh...

    Feelin' good
    No, you can't stop the feelin'
    No, you can't stop the feelin'
    No, not now

    Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

    Keep on truckin' on
    Keep on truckin' on
    Keep on truckin'

    Keep on truckin' on
    Keep on truckin'

    Yes, I've got a fever rising with desire
    It's my love jones and I feel like I'm on fire

    And I'll keep on keep on truckin', baby

    I'm the red ball express of lovin'
    Diesel-powered straight to you, I'm truckin'
    In old Temptation's rain, I'm duckin'
    For your love through sleet and snow, I'm truckin', ooh

    I'm the red ball express of lovin'
    Diesel-powered straight to you, I'm truckin'
    In old Temptation's rain, I'm duckin'
    For your love through sleet and snow, I'm truckin'

    Ain't nothin' holdin' me back nothin'
    I'll keep right on, right on truckin'
    Ain't nothin' holdin' me back nothin'
    I'll keep right on, right on truckin'

    Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, truckin'
    Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, truckin' Writer/s: ANITA POREE, FRANK EDWARD WILSON, FRANK WILSON, LEONARD CASTON
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, RALEIGH MUSIC PUBLISHING, Royalty Network, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 6

  • Steveazo from San Mateo, CaSpeaking to Patrick Merrick's comment/question about parts one and two: Tamla single 54238 was released with Part 1 on the A-Side/Side 1 and Part 2 on the B-Side/Side 2. The Part 1 "single edit" is 3 min, 21 seconds long; Part 2 is 2 min, 59 seconds long. The album version is 8 minutes long.
  • Gloria Krolak, The Vibes Lady from The South At 2:40 - 3:10 you can hear Gary Coleman playing the vibraphone, unusual instrumentation for this genre. Lionel Hampton and Red Norvo introduced the vibes to jazz in the 1930s where it caught on. Same not true of rock, r&b, etc.
  • AnonymousWhat a track, stands the test of time.Eddie Kendricks gone way too soon
  • Patrick K. Merrick from Hillsboro Oreg.I remember the song. There is a part one and part two. Were both parts released as singles or only part one?
  • Joyce from VegasNot true. Back when Blind Boy Fuller recorded it, songs alluding to sex were not permitted, hence the word "truckin" which rhymes with another word. That's what Fuller's song was about. Re-read the lyric using the forbidden word and you will see what I mean.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn December 29th 1973, Eddie Kendricks performed "Keep on Truckin'" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
    At the time the song was at #40 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and seven weeks earlier on November 4th, 1973 it peaked at #1 {for 2 weeks} and spent 19 weeks on the Top 100...
    And on September 30th it also reached #1 {for 2 weeks} on Billboard's R&B Singles chart...
    On the same 'Bandstand' show he also performed "Boogie Down"; and the very next day it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 at position #76, then on March 3rd, 1974 it peaked at #2* {for 2 weeks} and stayed on the chart for 18 weeks...
    Edward James Kendricks passed away on October 5th, 1992 at the young age of 52...
    May he R.I.P.
    * The 2 weeks "Boogie Down" was at #2, the #1 record for both those weeks was "Seasons in the Sun" by Terry Jacks; but on February 3rd, 1974 “Boogie Down” peaked at #1 {for 3 weeks} on Billboard's R&B Singles chart.
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