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"Hang On in There Baby" is a song written by American musician Johnny Bristol and arranged by H. B. Barnum as the title track from his first album. It was released as his debut solo single in 1974, reaching No. 8 on the U.S. Hot 100 [ 2 ] and No. 2 on the U.S. R&B chart. [ 3 ]
Hang On in There Baby: 12 74 82 7 1975 Feeling the Magic — — — 29 1976 Bristol's Creme — — 154 43 1978 Strangers — — — — 1981 Free to Be Me — — — — 1993 Life & Love (retitled Come to Me for 1995 US release) — — — — "—" denotes the album failed to chart
Married Men", "Hang on in There Baby" and "My Knight in Black Leather", released at the height of the disco era, were all issued as extended mixes on 12-inch singles. The album's title is a humorous play on Cries and Whispers , influential Swedish film-maker Ingmar Bergman 's 1973 movie.
O ^ "Buckets of Rain", originally released on the 1976's album Songs for the New Depression, was issued later on in the UK to support the import compilation The Best Bette. [74] P ^ "Hang on in There Baby" was issued in the US only as a promotional single, [75] and along with "My Knight in Black Leather" as double A-side release. [76]
Randolph Rose recorded a German version of the song, titled "La La Love Song" which was released in Germany on single in 1975. [29] [30] Cover Boys did a version of the song along with another Johnny Bristol composition, "Hang On In There Baby", which was released on Sizzle Records, Unidisc in 1987. [31]
In the movie Midler and Caan play the USO entertainers Dixie Leonard and Eddie Sparks who travel and perform together through World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War and the soundtrack mainly consists of period music from the songbooks of Hoagy Carmichael, Ray Evans, Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, and Frank Loesser, including jazz ...
Writing for Renowned for Sound, Angus Fitz-Bugden commented "While it’s a little difficult to adequately review a motion picture soundtrack when it’s divorced from the plot of the film/theater show itself, as a standalone collection, the Jersey Boys soundtrack serves as a pretty great introduction to one of popular music’s greatest entities as performed by the group themselves and those ...
Its B-side was "Hang On In There", composed by B. Womack. [3] The March 31 issue of Billboard reported that it was his fourth hit in a year. [4] For the week ending May 5, 1973 with the single in its sixth week in the charts, the Billboard best selling soul singles chart showed the single was at position 24 with the previous week's position ...