Tighten Up Instrumental Being Played ?

[bro]

heard this at cleethorpes any info anyone ?

[Guest soulmaguk]

heard this at cleethorpes any info anyone ?

Is it ernie & the top notes - dap walk.

[Guest Ranger]

The one I heard was by The Bamboos. Five or six years old available on 45 & album.

Kev

[John A]

Chris columbus-Tighten up 70 ??

[Guest Matt Male]

I wasn't there but The Bamboos version is brilliant. Cheap too... or at least it was until someone played it a Cleethorpes

[Dylan]

could it be funky 8 corners by willie and mighty magnificents ?

[Guest son of stan]

I take it its not, "Tighten Up Part 2" (the b-side of "Tighten Up")? Think that's an instrumental but I haven't played it for ages.

Is it actually a version of "Tighten Up"? A lot of the above are variants. I love that tighten up /4 /8 corners sound.

[Dave Thorley]

At a guess I would say it was Sam who played it and it would be the Bamboos, as he plays this version.

[Missgoldie]

At a guess I would say it was Sam who played it and it would be the Bamboos, as he plays this version.

If it had flute in it it's the Bamboo's

[Guest Ranger]

It was definitely The Bamboos. I heard it twice that I can recall, Sam and Keith Money (I think, it was him I'd had a few sherrys at the time) both played it.

https://www.youtube.c...h?v=N8PBQO-gjKc

[Guest Ollie Lailey]

Bamboos version was played main room by Sam. Tighten Up 70 is a great version, previously mentioned, but rare. Billy Ball version on King is a winner as well.

Keith played Kings Go Forth I think?

Edited June 20, 2010 by Ollie Lailey

[kevinsoulman]

always preferred this meself

kev

[Guest Brian Ellis]

Sam is definitely playing The Bamboo's version - he played it at Broughton on Saturday's 10th Anniversary night.

Edited June 21, 2010 by Brian Ellis

[waterfall_manc]

ha been thinkin about this one! played at the end of the night on the sat (or was it fri)! its brilliant.

someone mentioned ernie and the top notes, suppose they do sound a little similar. gerat tune, keb darge discovery i think:

Edited June 21, 2010 by waterfall_manc

[Guest Ranger]

Bamboos version was played main room by Sam. Tighten Up 70 is a great version, previously mentioned, but rare. Billy Ball version on King is a winner as well.

Keith played Kings Go Forth I think?

I think Keith played it on the Sunday night.

Although I was slightly distracted by the sight of Tony Hatfield dancing with a life size glow in the dark skeleton

[Corbett80]

Didn't realise Keith has given it a go on Sunday as well

Can't beat the original too, one of the greatest grooves ever laid on wax

Edited June 22, 2010 by corbett80

[Garethx]

For the life of me I can't see why anyone would play The Bamboos version: so sterile and squeaky clean it might as well be 'Stock, Aitken & Waterman plays The TSU Toronadoes'.

It would show more originality and taste to play Archie Bell's original Part II.

There are some very good alternates to this and most have been mentioned. I would add the Big T & The Peacemakers version on Nasco which also has the bonus of a scorching piece of female deep soul on the reverse.

[Corbett80]

Yes that version is great as well, love the girlie backing in it. I think for rawness and sheer heaviness the Billy Ball version wins hands down, but its not for the feint hearted.

Also for contemporary versions Binky Griptite's 'Mellow Matic Mood' on Daptone is a nice little take on the riff.

Edited June 22, 2010 by corbett80

[Sebastian]

It would show more originality and taste to play Archie Bell's original Part II.

Or some of the self-penned tunes by The Bamboos.

"Eel Oil" for example.

[funkyfeet]

Defo The Bamboos, played at Cleethorpes why people give an opinion when they weren't at Cleethorpes is beyond me as the question was what was the version played there.

[Jnixon]

the swinging gates version - a bit too drum heavy for the NS crowd - discuss.

seems a very popular version at the moment in the more open minded soul clubs.

[Guest wrighty]

For the life of me I can't see why anyone would play The Bamboos version: so sterile and squeaky clean it might as well be 'Stock, Aitken & Waterman plays The TSU Toronadoes'.

It would show more originality and taste to play Archie Bell's original Part II.

There are some very good alternates to this and most have been mentioned. I would add the Big T & The Peacemakers version on Nasco which also has the bonus of a scorching piece of female deep soul on the reverse.

always liked the classmates' version on hit records, know its a straight covers label but at least they were allowed to give it their own slight twist from the original altho they still say they're archie bell and the drells!

Edited June 22, 2010 by wrighty

[Garethx]

always liked the classmates' version on hit records, know its a straight covers label but at least they were allowed to give it their own slight twist from the original altho they still say they're archie bell and the drells!

That version actually sounds surprisingly good in a club Ian.

As some of you will know Hit was like an American version of the Top Of The Pops albums: covers made for the cheap jukebox market (in places where the owner or the crowd wouldn't cough up for the original versions of hit songs). The likes of Thomas Henry or Herbert Hunter would sing in the appropriate style over utilitarian backing tracks. The singers could do fantastic renditions of all kinds of singing: blues, gospel, country or pop. The backing tracks were usually pretty accurate but I'm guessing the Tighten Up rhythm was so new and so different that the Hit house band couldn't accurately copy it, thus producing this slightly lop-sided but extremely funky version.

Edited June 22, 2010 by garethx

[Corbett80]

one for the latin lovers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziqll0uC_Ck&feature=related

[Guest wrighty]

That version actually sounds surprisingly good in a club Ian.

i know gareth, its very rare that i dont play it when i dj