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Hold Tight (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich song)

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"Hold Tight!"
Swedish picture sleeve
Single by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
from the album Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
B-side"You Know What I Want"
Released11 February 1966
Recorded11 January 1966[1]
StudioPhilips, Stanhope House, London
Genre
Length2:47
LabelFontana
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Steve Rowland
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich singles chronology
"You Make It Move"
(1965) 		"Hold Tight!"
(1966) 		"Hideaway"
(1966)

"Hold Tight!" is a song by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich. The song was recorded on 11 January 1966 at Fontana's studio in Marble Arch, London and released as a single in February 1966. It was included on the band's debut album, issued on 24 June 1966 and is well-remembered for its particularly distorted, heavy sound.

The song reached number 4 on the UK Singles Chart.[2] This was their first top ten hit, also reaching number 27 on the Australian Kent Music Report and number 8 on the New Zealand Singles Chart. The song did not chart on the US Billboard Hot 100, with the band achieving limited success in America.

The song was used in the soundtrack to the 2007 Quentin Tarantino film Death Proof, in which Jungle Julia (Sydney Tamiia Poitier) requests the song, calling in to the radio station for which she works. She erroneously refers to the band as "Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mitch and Tich".[3][4]

It is based on a rhythm used as a chant by football fans.[5]

A Spanish language version, "Apriétalo", was released by the Mexican group "Los Belmonts" in 1965, achieving great success in Latin America.

An Italian language version, Chi Sei? by I Monelli, was used in a UK TV advertisement in 2023 by EasyJet.[6][7]

Reception

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Reviewing for New Musical Express, Derek Johnson wrote that "the stamping drum opening sounds like a Dave Clark disc – then in comes a grating rasp guitar and plonking bass, to build the rhythm to a pitch before the vocals start. The song itself goes up, line by line, in octaves – so that Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich are in falsetto at the end of each stanza".[8] For Record Mirror, Peter Jones described the song as a "highly effective hit-parade follow-up with a beat based on a current clapping craze at football grounds".[9]

Charts

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Chart (1966) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[10] 21
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[11] 52
Germany (GfK)[12] 4
New Zealand (Listener)[13] 8
South Africa (Springbok Radio)[14] 7
Sweden (Kvällstoppen)[15] 15
UK Singles (OCC)[2] 4

References

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  1. ^ "Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick, & Tich – January 1966". 8 May 2017. Archived from the original on 8 May 2017. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick Tich: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company.
  3. ^ Unruly Media p. 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."
  4. ^ James Eugene Wierzbicki Music, Sound and Filmmakers: Sonic Style in Cinema 2012- p. 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) ..."
  5. ^ "Dave Dee". The Telegraph. 9 January 2009. Retrieved 11 May 2017.
  6. ^ "I Monelli...Chi Sei ? (Hold tight)". YouTube. 26 November 2018.
  7. ^ "Get Out There". YouTube. 17 July 2023.
  8. ^ "Singles" (PDF). New Musical Express. 11 February 1966. p. 6. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  9. ^ "New Singles" (PDF). Record Mirror. 12 February 1966. p. 9. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  10. ^ Kent, David (2005). Australian Chart Book 1940–1969. Australian Chart Book Pty Ltd, Turramurra, N.S.W. ISBN 0-646-44439-5.
  11. ^ "Top RPM Singles: Issue 5724." RPM. Library and Archives Canada.
  12. ^ "Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich – Hold Tight!" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts.
  13. ^ "flavour of new zealand - search listener". www.flavourofnz.co.nz. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  14. ^ "South African Rock Lists Website - SA Charts 1965 - 1989 Acts (D)". 8 July 2019. Archived from the original on 8 July 2019. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  15. ^ "Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick And Tich – Se alla låtar och listplaceringar". NostalgiListan (in Swedish). Retrieved 17 August 2021.
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