Hold tight
| Hold tight | |
|---|---|
| Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich | |
| publication | February 1966 |
| length | 2:47 |
| Genre (s) | skirt |
| Author (s) | Ken Howard , Alan Blaikley |
| Label | Fontana Records |
| Cover versions | |
| 1966 | The Sean Buckley set |
| 1966 | Pat Simon |
| 1966 | The Riats |
| 1966 | The Beat Kings |
| 1966 | The Snappers |
| 1966 | The N'Betweens |
| 1966 | Los Belmont's |
| 1966 | The Jay Five |
| 1966 | The Ravers |
Hold Tight is the title of a pop rock song by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich . The song was recorded on January 11, 1966 at Fontana Records in Marble Arch, London and released as a single in February 1966 with the b-side You Know What I Want , and also appeared on the band's debut album on June 24, 1966 .
The song reached number 4 on the UK Singles Chart and was the band's first top ten hit. It reached number 27 in the Australian singles chart and number 8 in the singles chart in New Zealand . The song did not make it into the US Hot 100 charts.
reception
- Music - More than 20 cover versions of Hold Tight were recorded from 1966 to 1981.
- Film - Hold Tight was used in the soundtrack to the 2007 film Death Proof, directed by Quentin Tarantino : Jungle Julia ( Sydney Tamiia Poitier ) calls the radio station she works for asking for this song, short before she and her friends are killed in a car accident.
- Football - The rhythm of Hold Tight is similar to the Let's Go by The router , which in football fans since the 1960s as HUP and clapping staccato is used.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eddy Facoury Les 30 meilleurs groupes de rock anglais des années 60 1997 Page 41 "Dave Dee et ses amis Dozy, Beaky, Mick et Tich ont eu un succès phénoménal en Angleterre et en Allemagne entre 1966 ... Le groupe va désormais accumuler hits sur hits, dont quatre en 1966: Hold Tight (n ° 4 en mars), "
- ↑ www.davedeedozybeakymickandtich.nl ( Memento of the original from November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Unruly Media Page 57 "Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Beaky, Mitch & Tich's mid-sixties rock song“ Hold Tight ”infuses the girls in the car in Death Proof The film's sequences pose an odd equation between life, flesh, and death . Once bodies have been killed, they morph into toy mannequins. "
- ↑ James Eugene Wierzbicki Music, Sound and Filmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema 2012- Page 171 "The tight, repetitive, musematic structure of Death Proof's“ Hold Tight ”not only tells us to hold on for the film's wild kinetic ride; it also creates an upbeat, energetic tonal center and creates an interpretive meta-textual resonance by pairing one forgotten, devalued cultural object (the band called Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich, whose recording of “Hold Tight” plays on the car radio and is discussed by the characters) with another (Grindhouse cinema) ... "
