{"id":3598667,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3598667/?format=json","airdate":"2026-01-01T03:04:57-08:00","show":65529,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65529/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Tighten Up","track_id":null,"recording_id":"321bdedd-6528-413d-bd13-70715c80f4be","artist":"Archie Bell & the Drells","artist_ids":["9b89f290-eb18-4bc3-977a-e20c7d90db2d"],"album":"Tighten Up","release_id":null,"release_group_id":"046a4823-7e32-327a-8135-068aa6d324a4","labels":["Atlantic"],"label_ids":["50c384a2-0b44-401b-b893-8181173339c7"],"release_date":"1968-01-01","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Going out to Nate in Everett!\n\nThis early funk hit served as inspiration for Janet Jackson's 1986 single \"When I Think of You\" and was later sampled by Janet for her 1997 track \"Free Xone\".\n\nArchie Bell became known around the world for for this song, recorded in a session in 1967, along with a number of songs including \"She's My Woman\". Soon afterwards Bell was drafted into the U.S. Army and began serving in Vietnam. The song became a hit in Houston, and sold a million copies by the next year. The line in \"Tighten Up\", \"we dance just as good as we walk\" was a little ironic, given that Bell had been shot in the leg and was consigned to a military hospital bed at the time.\n\nWatch them play it live in 1968: https://youtu.be/11Wd1cc31xI","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}