Help me find the name of a song

[ottacat]

Back when I was just a lad my uncle had a mix tape of late 60's (and potentially very early 70's) music. Lots of great stuff on it - Hendrix, Buffalo Springfield, The Strawbs and so on.

However there was one song that I simply never knew the title. It is a great, fairly long alt rock song with a chorus repeating the word 'celebration' but as a long drawn out phrase - 'cellllll - ahhhhhh - braaaaaaa - tion' repeated over and over sung by a multi-voice chorus.

Logically I would have thought the song would be called Celebration but if it is, I haven't had any luck finding it.

It was not Celebration by Kool & The Gang.

Any help on identifying this song would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Phil B.]

Sounds like it could be Rare Earth..the version I'm posting here is a radio edit, there are longer versions of the song.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Sounds like it could be Rare Earth..the version I'm posting here is a radio edit, there are longer versions of the song.

That's what I was thinking too Phil, but he said they sing 'celebration' and Rare Earth sings 'celebrate'. Maybe you're right though.

 

[Jet]

Here is another one, but it too says "Celebrate."

Earth, Wind And Fire - Celebrate

 

[ottacat]

Thanks for the replies so far but neither of these two are the one. The chorus is definitely "celebration". I wish I could remember even some of the verse lyrics but my memory is too dim.