Get It Up for Love

Ned Doheny wrote "Get It Up for Love", the opening track of Hard Candy, 4:44. Brad Kyle's Front Row and Backstage column from 2022 dates the writing to late 1973 or early 1974, while he was at Asylum, with the publisher Benchmark and a Warner plugger, Artie Wayne, pitching it in 1974. Doheny recalls that the first time I played it was at the Troubadour and that David Geffen's head whipped around at the chorus; the title, he says, is about summoning your resources and getting your shit together.

Kyle's order of the early recordings, which Wikipedia contradicts, is Stephen Michael Schwartz on RCA in August 1974 with an arrangement by Larry Carlton, Johnny Rivers on Atlantic in late 1974, David Cassidy on RCA in 1975 on The Higher They Climb, the Fabulous Rhinestones in 1975, Nigel Olsson in 1975 and Springbok, then Doheny in 1976. Wikipedia says Cassidy's was the first. Later versions include Maxine Nightingale on Night Life (1977) and Tata Vega in 1979, a top 20 dance single. A fan blog hears David Foster on keyboards and Tower of Power horns on Doheny's version, and credits it as a rare groove favorite revived in the UK, Europe and Asia; a demo is on Separate Oceans.

Setlist.fm lists four performances in its 39 setlists, tied for second most played. We found no video and no samples, and could not tell whether our upload is the Hard Candy version.