Get Up And Dance - by Leston Paul and the New York Connection featuring Lennox Picou

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‘Get Up And Dance’
sung by Lennox Picou
Album: Get Up And Dance 1990
- Leston Paul & The N.Y. Connection

2023: Tune of choice | Tobago Pan-Thers Steel Orchestra - Trinidad & Tobago Panorama

2018: Tune of Choice |  Sforzata Steel Orchestra - Trinidad & Tobago



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