Keith & Billie In 1966, the song "Swingin' Tight" found its way into the hands of the London-based music producer John Schroeder, who was working for Pye Records and oversaw their Piccadilly label.

Piccadilly had signed Keith Powell and Billie Davis to partner on a number of songs, including "Swingin' Tight".

While the song was well-received, with one review lauding its "smoky, smouldering, almost Spectorish sort of production",[3] it failed to make the UK charts and was never released in the United States.

On March 10, 1969, the band recorded the song as a slower ballad that ran 2:56, and included it as the second track on the B side of the LP.

On October 3, 1969, a new version of the song was produced by Ross, who hired studio musicians to record the instrumentation, to which Bill Deal and the Rhondels laid down the vocals.