Wiktionary
a. (context UK often pejorative English) possessing political and social views that are considered to be fashionable and left-wing. interj. (context US idiomatic English) An expression of enthusiasm or encouragement.
WordNet
adv. an interjection expressing agreement [syn: right]
Wikipedia
Right On may refer to:
Right On is the nineteenth studio album by The Supremes, released in 1970 for the Motown label. It was the group's first album not to feature former lead singer Diana Ross. Her replacement, Jean Terrell, began recording Right On with Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong in mid-1969, while Wilson and Birdsong were still touring with Ross.
Frank Wilson, a former protégé of Motown producer Norman Whitfield, produced much of Right On, working to establish the "New Supremes" (as Motown began marketing the new Terrell-led lineup) as a group unique from the Ross-led Supremes. Right On features two top 40 singles, " Up the Ladder to the Roof" (#10 Billboard and charting higher than former Supreme Ross' debut solo single a few months later) and "Everybody's Got the Right to Love". Other notable tracks include "Bill, When Are You Coming Back", an anti- Vietnam War song, and "The Loving Country", written by Ivy Jo Hunter and Smokey Robinson. A critical and commercial success, Right On reached #25 on the Billboard Top 200 albums chart, a peak 21 positions higher than the final Diana Ross-led album, Farewell. According to Motown data this album sold around 225,000 copies in the USA.
"Right On" is a 1971 song written by Earl DeRouen and Marvin Gaye and produced by Marvin, who issued the song on his landmark album, What's Going On. The song, which talked about the differences between the rich and poor, good and evil and other divisions, was built in a different musical texture than previous singles bringing in a latin soul percussive style including maracas and a flute and fluent jazz-styled piano playing from Gaye. The song changed into abstract melodies and harmonies from Marvin with the first half in a settled mood, the second half a little more hasty as Marvin's lyrical content went from social to political and the third which was a more modest close in which Marvin preached how "love can conquer hate anytime" and telling someone close to him to come "to live where love is King" before ending in the song's first half musical production. The song then climaxes with Marvin segueing into " Wholy Holy". The title was also referenced in " What's Going On" so prominently and was so heralded that Marvin formed a production company titled Right On Productions soon afterwards.
Right On is the tenth studio album release by R&B and soul singer Wilson Pickett released in 1970. The album is considered by many critics to be a valley in between the two peaks of the Hey Jude album in 1969 and the Gamble and Huff produced Wilson Pickett In Philadelphia album that came later in 1970. Hit covers of The Supremes' " You Keep Me Hangin' On" (#16 R&B, #92 Pop) and The Archies' " Sugar Sugar" (#4 R&B, #25 Pop), as well as the Pickett original "She Said Yes" (#20 R&B, #68 Pop) came from these sessions. The album, however, had dismal sales. It stayed in the bottom parts of the Billboard 200.
The backing band was Cold Grits; consisting of Billy Carter, Harold Cowart, Jimmy O'Rourke and Ron Ziegler; and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section.
Right On is a Canadian youth television series which aired on CBC Television from 1972 to 1973.
Usage examples of "right on".
In another sixteen minutes, the entire force would overrun her and keep right on going, leaving her single light cruiser alone and lonely almost in the Aggressors’.
The cursor swept a wide circuit of the system, right on the twenty-light-minute radius of a G5 star’.
Which meant that while a defensive fleet stationed in orbit around Manticore or Gryphon would require a full day to reach the Junction through n-space, an assault from outside the system could (in theory, at least) drop out of hyper right on top of the Junction and already shooting.
In another sixteen minutes, the entire force would overrun her and keep right on going, leaving her single light cruiser alone and lonely almost in the Aggressors' path.
It was right on time, and the glare from the afternoon sun should keep it from attracting unwelcome attention.
The cursor swept a wide circuit of the system, right on the twenty-light-minute radius of a G5 star's hyper limit.
They'd waited until the ground team was right on top of it, and that made it cold-blooded, deliberate murder.
He had paid two hundred thousand credits for it, right on this liner.
But another following immediately landed right on his back and sank in.
A soul like hers - or Ephraim's - is half detached, and keeps right on after death as long as the body lasts.