Archie Bell & The Drells - The Tighten Up: youtube.com/watch?v=Wro3bqi4Eb8
This is my go to good time song. I first heard it at Laura Merrimen’s. We drank and listened to this and laughed. I bought it years later at a record store in Toronto despite the clerk’s reluctance to sell it to me for she wanted it for herself.
I still put this on when I have people over. I remember putting it on at an after-work party at my Kensington apartment at 5am when we were all quiet and sleepy and it kept us alive for a few more hours. I didn’t know it then but I was nearing the end of something good, would very soon become disillusioned with that place. But it was good night, all loving and tired people listening to “The Tighten Up.” We slept 3 hours that morning and all went out for breakfast, as if we had something to celebrate beyond us.
And I remember, about a year after all that, working in a new place and Warren was DJing. He put this on and I went out to the open dance floor and danced to it by myself.
I don’t know what else to say about this song except that it is track 1 on the album and track 2 is the exact same song, different take. It’s that good.
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