Hold On is the fifth album by High Inergy. Like their previous three albums, this one was a commercial and critical disappointment. It peaked at #70 on Billboard's R&B Album charts and failed to make the Top 200 Pop Album charts. The album spawned one chart single, a cover of Bettye Swann's #1 R&B hit, "Make Me Yours", which Andrew Hamilton in his All Music Guide review described as "better-than-the-original." Unfortunately, High Inergy's version failed to achieve the chart success of the original, peaking at just #68.
Track listing The following is the track listing from the original vinyl LP. Side one "I Just Can't Help Myself" (Donnell Jones, Anthony Mason) - 4:29 "Sweet Man" (Marvin Augustus, Patricia Scott) - 4:32 "Make Me Yours" (Bettye J. Champion) - 3:30 "Hold On to My Love" (Bobby DeBarge, Bunny DeBarge) - 5:03 (High Inergy & Switch)
Side two "If I Love You Tonight" (Eddie Coleman, Jr., Gwen Gordy Fuqua, Gwendolyn Fuller) - 3:53 "Boomerang Love" (Angelo Bond, William Weatherspoon) - 3:30 "I'm a Believer" (Narada Michael Walden) - 3:50 "It Was You Babe" (McKinley Jackson, Angelo Bond, Barbara Mitchell) - 5:04
Production The following information comes from the original vinyl LP.
Producers: Angelo Bond, Eddie Coleman, Jr., Bobby DeBarge, Gwen Gordy Fuqua (co-producer), Gambler's Productions, McKinley Jackson, Narada Michael Walden and William Weatherspoon Executive Producer: Berry Gordy
Session musicians (partial list) The following information comes from the original vinyl LP.
Eddie "Bongo" Brown - percussion Ollie E. Brown - drums Paulinho DaCosta - percussion Bobby DeBarge - piano Tommy DeBarge - bass Quentin Dennard - drums Nathan East - bass Phillip Ingram - percussion Paul M. Jackson, Jr. - guitar Randy Jackson - bass Melvin "Wah Wah" Ragin - guitar Narada Michael Walden - drums
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