Every Billboard Hot 100 Single 1970: #145: “You Keep Tightening Up On Me”- The Box Tops. March 21, 1970.

• Single: “You Keep Tightening Up On Me”- The Box Tops
• Record Company- Bell
• Genre: Pop
• Written by Wayne Carson Thompson
• Time: 2:50
• B-side: “Come In Honey”
• Album- Cry Like A Baby
• Grade: A
• Peaked at #92 2 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100.

The Box Tops a pop-rock group out of Memphis- best remembered for their two big hits – 1967’s “The Letter” #1 and  1968’s “Cry Like A Baby” #2. They had ten Hot 100 Hit singles with 7 making the Top 40 from 1967-70- this was their final entry into the Hot 100. They were Alex Chilton’s band before he started the mighty Big Star.