Hold Tight (Want Some Sea Food, Mama) (studio, 1939-01-19: Victor matrix 031534-1, master take)
~ Recording by Fats Waller and His Rhythm
Appears on releases
| # | Title | Length | Track artist | Release title | Release artist | Release group type | Country/Date | Label | Catalog# |
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| Official | |||||||||
| 1.1 | Hold Tight (Want Some Sea Food Mama) | ?:?? | Fats Waller and His Rhythm | Hold Tight (Want Some Sea Food Mama) / You Out-Smarted Yourself | Fats Waller and His Rhythm | Single |
| Bluebird (US label, originally a budget subsidiary of RCA Victor) | B-10116 |
| 1.1 | Hold Tight (Want Some Sea Food Mama) | ?:?? | Fats Waller and His Rhythm | Hold Tight (Want Some Sea Food Mama) / You Out-Smarted Yourself | Fats Waller and His Rhythm | Single |
| Bluebird (US label, originally a budget subsidiary of RCA Victor) | B-10116 |
| 1.2 | Hold Tight (Want Some Sea Food, Mama) | ?:?? | Fats Waller and His Rhythm | Last Night a Miracle Happened / Hold Tight | Fats Waller and His Rhythm | Single |
| His Master’s Voice | B.D.5469 |
| 2.2 | Hold Tight (Want Some Sea Food Mama) | ?:?? | "Fats" Waller | Favorites | "Fats" Waller | Album + Compilation |
| Victor (defunct “His Master’s Voice” imprint, formerly “Victor Record”, succeeded by RCA Victor) | P 151 |
| 2.3 | Hold Tight | ?:?? | Fats Waller | "Fats" Waller Favorites | Fats Waller | EP |
| RCA Victor | EPBT 3040 |
| 1.1 | Hold Tight | ?:?? | Fats Waller and His Rhythm | Ain't Misbehavin', Part 3 | Fats Waller and His Rhythm | EP |
| RCA (RCA Records: simple ‘RCA’ or ‘RCA’ with lightning bolt in circle) | EPC-1246-3 |
| 4.14 | Hold Tight | 2:13 | Fats Waller | “Fats” Waller Memorial | Fats Waller | Album + Compilation |
| RCA Victor | 730.570/574 |
| 1.6 | Hold Tight | ?:?? | Fats Waller | The Vocal Fats Waller | Fats Waller | Album + Compilation |
| RCA Victor | LSA 3112 |
| 1.12 | Hold Tight | 2:16 | Fats Waller | Music Maestro Please | Fats Waller | Album + Compilation |
| Object Enterprises | ORO107 |
| 1.12 | Hold Tight | ?:?? | Fats Waller | Music Maestro Please | Fats Waller | Album + Compilation |
| Jazz Collection | ORO107 |
| 1.9 | Hold Tight | 2:17 | Fats Waller | L: The Jazz Singer | Fats Waller | Album + Compilation |
| Recording Arts | JZCD 350 |
| 1.1 | Hold Tight | 2:18 | Fats Waller | 'Taint What You Do | Fats Waller | Album + Compilation |
| Trace Trading | 0401512 |
| 1.12 | Hold Tight (Want Some Sea Food, Mama) | 2:19 | Fats Waller | Fun With Fats | Fats Waller | Album + Compilation |
| Classic Jazz (UK, associated with Charly Records Ltd.) | CDCD 1004 |
| 1.1 | Hold Tight | 2:19 | Fats Waller | Phenomenal Fats | Fats Waller | Album + Compilation |
| Point Productions | 2642522 |
| 2.8 | Hold Tight | 2:17 | Fats Waller and His Rhythm | The Quintessence: New York - Camden - Los Angeles 1929-1943 | Fats Waller | Album + Compilation |
| Frémeaux & Associés | FA 207 |
| 2.9 | Hold Tight (Want Some Seafood Mama) | 2:16 | Fats Waller and His Rhythm | A Good Man Is Hard to Find: The Middle Years, Part 2 (1938-1940) | Fats Waller and His Rhythm | Album + Compilation |
| Bluebird (US label, originally a budget subsidiary of RCA Victor), RCA (RCA Records: simple ‘RCA’ or ‘RCA’ with lightning bolt in circle) | 07863 66552-2 |
| 2.11 | Hold Tight (Want Some Sea Food Mama) | 2:19 | Fats Waller | A Portrait of Fats Waller | Fats Waller | Album + Compilation |
| Gallerie | GALE 412 |
| 1.9 | Hold Tight | 2:18 | "Fats" Waller and His Rhythm | The Chronological Classics: Fats Waller 1938-1939 | Fats Waller | Album + Compilation |
| Classics (French jazz reissue label) | 943 |
| 1.20 | Hold Tight | 2:15 | Fats Waller | Lounging at The Waldorf ’29 - ’43 | Fats Waller | Album + Compilation |
| ABM (imprint? of Audio Book & Music Company Limited) | ABMMCD 1220 |
| 1.21 | Hold Tight (Want Some Seafood Mama) | 2:19 | Fats Waller | The Very Best of Fats Waller [Collectors' Choice] | Fats Waller | Album + Compilation |
| Collectors’ Choice Music | CCM-141-2 |
| 6.1 | Hold Tight | 2:16 | Fats Waller | Portrait, Volume 2 | Fats Waller | Album + Compilation |
| Documents (German, Membran Entertainment Group) | 220955 |
| 1.10 | Hold Tight (Want Some Seafood Mama) | 2:19 | Fats Waller | A Handful of Fats | Fats Waller | Album + Compilation |
| Naxos Jazz Legends | 8.120760 |
| 4.4 | Hold Tight | 2:18 | Fats Waller | Handful of Keys | Fats Waller | Album + Compilation |
| Proper Records | PROPERBOX 71 |
| 3.15 | Hold Tight | 2:17 | Fats Waller | Ain't Misbehavin' (Jazz Edition series) | Fats Waller | Album + Compilation |
| Quadromania | 222491-444 |
| 3.15 | Hold Tight | 2:17 | Fats Waller | Quadromania Jazz Edition: Ain't Misbehavin' | Fats Waller | Album + Compilation |
| Membran International GmbH | 222491-444 |
| 1.4 | Hold Tight - Hold Tight (Want Some Seafood Mama) | 2:17 | Fats Waller & His Rhythm | Jazz in the Charts 047 (1939) | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Membran Music Ltd. | 223746-222 |
| 2.21 | Hold Tight (Want Some Seafood Mama) | 2:15 | Fats Waller | The Essence of Fats Waller | Fats Waller | Album + Compilation |
| Essence | 33321 |
| 2.12 | Hold Tight | 2:21 | Fats Waller and His Rhythm | Complete Recorded Works, Volume 5 | Fats Waller | Album + Compilation |
| JSP Records (UK jazz/blues reissues) | JSP949, JSP949A, JSP949B, JSP949C, JSP949D |
| 1.16 | Hold Tight (Want Some Sea Food, Mama) | 2:16 | Fats Waller and His Rhythm | The Copulatin' Blues, Volume Two | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Grammercy Records | |
| 2.7 | Hold Tight I Want Some Seafood Mama | 2:17 | Fats Waller | BD Music Presents: Jazz en cuisine | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Éditions BDMusic | |
| 1.15 | Hold Tight (Want Some Seafood, Mama) | ?:?? | Fats Waller | The Real... Fats Waller | Fats Waller | Album + Compilation |
| RCA Victor | 88985305422 |
| 27.9 | Hold Tight (I Want Some Sea Food Mama) | 2:15 | Fats Waller and His Rhythm | Jazz von A–Z: Die Michael Naura Jazzanthologie | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Die Zeit (German weekly newspaper), NDR kultur, Sony Music (global brand, excluding JP, owned by Sony Music Entertainment), Studio Hamburg Enterprises GmbH | |
| 1.7 | Hold Tight | 2:18 | Fats Waller | Ain't Misbehavin' | Fats Waller | Album + Compilation |
| Rockin' Chair | [none] |
| 1.1 | Hold Tight | ?:?? | Fats Waller and His Rhythm | Ain't Misbehavin', Part 3 | Fats Waller And His Rhythm | EP |
| RCA (RCA Records: simple ‘RCA’ or ‘RCA’ with lightning bolt in circle) | EPC-1246-3 |
| 1.3 | Hold Tight (I Want Some Sea Food Mama) | 2:18 | Fats Waller and His Rhythm | Ain’t Misbehavin’ | Fats Waller and His Rhythm | Album + Compilation |
| SPCD 1036 | |
| 12.6 | Hold Tight (Want Some Sea Food, Mama) | 2:18 | Fats Waller | Classic American Music: Les Plus Grandes Voix Du Jazz | Various Artists | Album + Compilation | MPO (French pressing plant, manufacturing and distribution company) | ||
| Bootleg | |||||||||
| 6.1 | Hold Tight | 2:16 | Fats Waller | Fats Waller | Fats Waller | Album + Compilation |
| Documents (German, Membran Entertainment Group) | 222925 |
| (unknown) | |||||||||
| 1.2 | Hold Tight | 2:14 | Fats Waller | The One and Only Thomas "Fats" Waller | Fats Waller | Album + Compilation |
| Memoir Records Ltd. | CDMOIR306 |
Relationships
| double bass: | Cedric Wallace (jazz double bass player) (on 1939-01-19) |
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| drums (drum set): | Slick Jones (on 1939-01-19) |
| guitar: | Al Casey (US jazz/soul guitarist) (on 1939-01-19) |
| piano: | Fats Waller (on 1939-01-19) |
| reeds: | Gene Sedric (on 1939-01-19) |
| trumpet: | Herman Autrey (Jazz trumpet player) (on 1939-01-19) |
| vocals: | Fats Waller (on 1939-01-19) |
| recording of: | Hold Tight (on 1939-01-19) |
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Related works
Hold Tight
| writer: | Jerry Brandow Edward Robinson (songwriter) Lenny Kent Willie Spotswood (US singer, composer, often credited as "Spotswood") Leonard Ware (American jazz guitar player and composer) |
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| referred to in medleys: | Swing Medley (order: 12) |
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