It’s Tight Like That-McKinney’s Cotton pickers:1928

Описание: It's Tight Like That" is a hokum or dirty blues song, recorded by Tampa Red and Georgia Tom on October 24, 1928. Vocalion Records issued it on the then standard 10-inch 78 rpm shellac record in December 1928. It became successful and eventually sold over seven million copies.

Background
Hudson Whittaker and Thomas A. Dorsey met by playing in the backing band accompanying Ma Rainey on her numerous tours. In 1924, Rainey was accompanied by the pianist and bandleader Dorsey and the band he assembled, the Wildcats Jazz Band. They began their tour with an appearance in Chicago in April 1924 and continued, on and off, until 1928.Dorsey left the group in 1926, because of depression from which he suffered for around two years. Having recovered by 1928, he formed a partnership with the blues singer-guitarist Tampa Red. Dorsey adopted the name "Georgia Tom" and together they wrote "It's Tight Like That". The song was composed overnight due to the demand made by J. Mayo Williams of the Vocalion Records when Tampa Red approached Williams hoping to make a recording: "come back two o’clock the next day with somethin’" that is "[your] own to sing."

A Chicago street slang superlative was recounted by Georgia Tom, who helped parlay it into the song. "There used to be a phrase they used around town, you know, folks started saying, "Ah, it's tight like that! Tight like that!" Red supplied the words, and Dorsey wrote the music, modeled after Papa Charlie Jackson’s "Shake That Thing".

The title is a sly wordplay with the double meaning of being "tight" with someone, coupled with a more salacious physical familiarity. Georgia Tom later had time to regret the use of the double entendre.