Archie Bell & The Drells has been played on NTS over 50 times, featured on 52 episodes and was first played on 1 April 2013.

They released three albums at Atlantic and four at Philadelphia International Records. Archie Bell formed the group while at high school and after their first local hit at Houston, "Tighten Up", Atlantic offered them a contract, in 1967. Initially the line up consisted of James Wise, Willie Pernell, L.C. Watts, Cornelius Fuller. In 1969 they started a succesful carrer at Philadelphia International Records. After breaking up, Archie Bell released a solo album at Becket Records. The group went on performing. During the 1990s the line-up included Steve "Stevie G." Guettler (guitar, vocals), Jeff "JT" Strickler (bass guitar, vocals), Steve Farrell (guitar, vocals), Mike Wilson (keyboards, vocals) and Wes Armstrong (drums, vocals).