IT'S TIGHT LIKE THAT
Created on 15/03/2003Latest update on 05/04/2024
Artist: Tampa Red's Hokum Jug Band
Author: Thomas Dorsey/Hudson Whittaker
Label: Vocalion
Year: 1928
With Georgia Tom, alias Thomas Dorsey, the famous future gospel composer. Barrelhouse classic. Melody similar to Papa Charlie Jackson's Shake That Thing (see there); the title comes from Blind Blake's Too Tight. See also: It Hurts Me Too.
Covers:
- 1928:
Walter Barnes [the tragical band leader who perished along with over 200 patrons in the Rhythm Club fire in Natchez, MS in April 1940]
- 1928:
- 1928:
- 1930:
Mississippi Sheiks [answer song as Loose Like That]
- 1936:
- 1939:
- 2004:
Not to be confused with Louis Armstrong's It's Tight Like That ('28).
