You Used to Hold Me So Tight
1984 single by Thelma Houston
"You Used to Hold Me So Tight" | |
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Single by Thelma Houston | |
from the album Qualifying Heat | |
Released | 1984 |
Genre | Post-disco, garage house[1] |
Length | 5:37 (12" Version) |
Label | MCA Records |
Songwriter(s) | Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis |
Producer(s) | Jam & Lewis |
"You Used to Hold Me So Tight" is a song written and produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis for American singer Thelma Houston's 1984 album Qualifying Heat. Released as a single in mid-1984, "You Used to Hold Me So Tight" became a success on the U.S. charts, peaking at number seven on the Hot Dance Club Play chart.[2] Although it missed the Billboard Hot 100, the song peaked at number thirteen on the Hot Black Singles chart.[3]
Samples
The single has been sampled in seven songs, notably among them "Ancodia" by 808 State from their 1989 album Ninety.[4]
Track listings
- MCA 12" single
- "You Used to Hold Me So Tight" (12" Version) – 5:37
- "You Used to Hold Me So Tight" (Dub) – 6:39
- "You Used to Hold Me So Tight" (LP Version) – 5:42
- UK 12" single
- "You Used to Hold Me So Tight" (Liquid People Y2K RE-Groove)
- "You Used to Hold Me So Tight" (Liquid People Y2K RE-Groove Dub)
References
- v
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- Sunshower
- Thelma Houston (1972)
- I've Got the Music in Me
- Any Way You Like It
- Thelma & Jerry
- The Devil in Me
- Two to One
- Ready to Roll
- Ride to the Rainbow
- Reachin' All Around
- Breakwater Cat
- Never Gonna Be Another One
- Thelma Houston (1983)
- Qualifying Heat
- Throw You Down
- Thelma Houston (1994)
- A Woman's Touch
- The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
- Thank God It's Friday
- Into the Night
- Lean on Me
- 54
- "Baby Mine"
- "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
- "Save the Country"
- "Me and Bobby McGee"
- "Don't Leave Me This Way"
- "Love Machine"
- "Suspicious Minds"
- "96 Tears"
- "You Used to Hold Me So Tight"
- "Moonlight Serenade"
- "My Lucille"
- "Lean on Me"
- "Let It Be"