I just heard this song on the radio. Apparently it was a popular dance around Texas in the late sixties, but, I don’t think it made it to the west coast. At least I don’t remember ever seeing it. Anybody here from Houston that might be able to explain how to do the Tighten Up.
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I just heard this song on the radio. Apparently it was a popular dance around Texas in the late sixties, but, I don’t think it made it to the west coast. At least I don’t remember ever seeing it. Anybody here from Houston that might be able to explain how to do the Tighten Up.
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I once asked a woman from Houston who was about the right age and she didn’t know. I await the answer humbly. I love this song. Best clapping ever.
Weird factoid: when this song became a hit, Archie Bell had been drafted and was in Vietnam.
Is this it?
I don’t know how to do it, but I do know you have to make it mellow.
HOLY CRAP!! From someone who had trouble learning the Twist and the Freddy, that is one complicated dance. Thanks, DDG. I was gonna try to learn the dance for my wife ( she likes the song ) but, I guess it’s back to Do The Freddy.
Boogalooing this one over to Cafe.
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HOLY CRAP!! From someone who had trouble learning the Twist and the Freddy, that is one complicated dance. Thanks, DDG. I was gonna try to learn the dance for my wife ( she likes the song ) but, I guess it’s back to Do The Freddy.
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Aw, c’mon. Learn it, then do it for your webcam, then post it on Youtube. You could be the next Numa Numa guy! 
Wow. What whack-ass white boy taught the Drells to dance?
Maybe gnagtcha could drop a little Baltimore Club on his wife.
I dunno, but I sure hope they walk better than that.
( In my best Michael Jackson voice ) “That made me giggle”
And that made me spurt beer out of my nose!!