What is "hold tight"

vb. To hold onto something securely or closely.

v. hold firmly, usually with one's hands; "She clutched my arm when she got scared" [syn: cling to, hold close, clutch]

Hold Tight is a Harlan Coben 2008 stand-alone thriller dealing with problems of parental controls, teenage suicide, children independence and abuse of prescribed drugs. It features several characters that are equally important. It was moderately well received by the critics. It debuted simultaneously as a No. 1 New York Times best seller and a Times of London best seller.

Hold Tight! is the name of a pop/ rock song by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich. The song was recorded on 11 January 1966 at Fontana's studios in Marble Arch, London and released as a single in February 1966 with the B-side You Know What I Want, and on 24 June 1966, on the band's debut album.

The song reached number 4 on the UK Singles Chart. This was their first top ten hit, also reaching number 27 on the Australian Singles Chart and number 8 on the NZ Singles Chart. The song did not chart on the US Hot 100, but then again, they saw limited success in the United States as even their top hit, Zabadak, which reached number 3 in the UK and number 4 in New Zealand, only reached number 52 on the US Hot 100.

The song was used in the soundtrack to the 2007 Quentin Tarantino film Death Proof, in which Jungle Julia ( Sydney Tamiia Poitier) requests the song, calling in to the radio station for which she works.

Hold Tight may refer to:

• "Hold Tight" (Sidney Bechet song) 1938, covered by The Andrews Sisters and Fats Waller
• "Hold Tight" (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich song), 1966
• "Hold Tight" (Justin Bieber song), 2013
• "Hold Tight" (Madonna song), 2015
• Hold Tight (novel), by Harlan Coben

"Hold Tight" is a song recorded by Canadian singer Justin Bieber for his second compilation album Journals (2013). It was released on 21 October 2013, as the third single from Bieber's series Music Mondays, following " Heartbreaker" and " All That Matters" (released on October 7 and 14, respectively).

Hold Tight, Hold Tight (Want Some Seafood Mama), commonly known as Hold Tight, is a 1938 Sidney Bechet song, composed by Bechet's guitarist Leonard Ware and two session singers with claimed contributions from Bechet himself. The song became known for what at the time were considered suggestive lyrics, and then for a series of lawsuits over songwriter royalties.

Bechet recorded the song is his first recording session as bandleader with Ware and "The Two Fishmongers" as vocalists - uncredited but later identified as Willie Spottswood and Eddie Robinson.

At the same time two white dancers, Jerry Brandow and Lenny Kent, had approached the Andrews Sisters' manager Lou Levy with the song, claiming it was a traditional jazz tune, and five days after Bechet's recording the Andrews Sisters recorded the song - with cleaner lyrics and a modified introduction, as "Hold Tight-Hold Tight (Want Some Sea Food Mama)," with Jimmy Dorsey's band. Their recording was a considerable hit, followed by another notable version by Fats Waller a few months later in January 1939.

Waller's gravelly voice and the double entendre lyrics contributed to the song's success.

Although the song had been played around Jazz clubs for years the Andrews Sisters hit provoked the first royalty cases - the royalties being awarded to the two dancers who had "discovered" the song, Brandow and Kent, then to Bechet's recording session team: guitarist Leonard Ware and singers Eddie Robinson, and Willie Spottswood. Other claims for parts of the song were made by Sy Oliver, Count Basie, Gene Krupa, the singer Jerry Kruger, and trumpeter Taps Miller. However, Sidney Bechet continued to claim the lyrics, which he argued had been written back in 1924, but that pianist Clarence Williams had decided not to publish and register the lyrics as they were then considered too suggestive. Eventually the two dancers Brandow and Kent were removed from the song's copyright, and The Catalog of Copyright Entries of the Library of Congress Copyright Office (1968) lists the copyright for "Hold Tight, Hold Tight (Want Some Seafood Mama)" as only "Leonard W. Ware, Willie Spottswood & George Robinson."

"Hold Tight" is a 1981 single by Change from the LP entiltled Miracles. The single's vocals were sung by Diva Gray. Along with the songs "Paradise" and "Heaven of My Life", it became a number one single on the US dance chart for five weeks. It was also the second single released from "Miracles," as "Hold Tight" peaked at number 40 on Billboard's Soul Chart, and number 89 on the Billboard Hot 100.

"Hold Tight" is a song recorded by American singer Madonna featured on her thirteenth studio album, Rebel Heart (2015). The track was written and produced by Madonna, with additional writing provided by Diplo, MoZella, Toby Gad, Ariel Rechtshaid, and MNEK. A demo of "Hold Tight" was leaked onto the internet on December 22, 2014, while its final version was released by Madonna on February 9, 2015 on iTunes Store. The song was later sent to Italian radio on July 24, 2015, as the third single from Rebel Heart in that country.

"Hold Tight" is a midtempo pop song, with it incorporating military drums, atmospheric keyboards, and flourishes of electronics as its instrumentation. Lyrically, the song talks about love triumphing through tough times, having a message of holding onto one another and being strong. The song received mixed reviews from music critics, with some praising its chorus and picking it as a standout track. Others named it dull and generic. The song charted in a few European territories, reaching the top 40 in Finland, Hungary, and Spain.