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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 ]
Bristol left Motown in 1973 to join CBS as a producer. [4] He worked with a number of emerging singers that included Randy Crawford, for whom Bristol wrote "Caught in Love's Triangle", as well as producing and writing for established performers such as: Tom Jones, Marlena Shaw, Johnny Mathis, Jerry Butler and Boz Scaggs.
At the time of their breakthrough, Volpeliere-Pierrot was known for wearing a peaked fisherman's hat, turned round with the peak to the rear so that it resembled a beret. Ben VP (as he was billed on a number of solo singles in the mid-1990s) was frequently referred to as 'Ben Vol-au-vent Parrot' in Smash Hits magazine, [ 5 ] with 'Bendy Ben ...
The Miracle is the thirteenth studio album by the British rock band Queen, released on 22 May 1989 by Parlophone Records and Capitol Records in both the United Kingdom and the U.S. respectively, where it was the band's third and final studio album to be released on latter label, and their first studio album on the former label.
Wilde filmed a music video to promote the song. [61] Directed by Greg Masuak, the video shows Wilde in a dark room lying on a large bed. She then rises from the bed as she sings the song and finds herself being "threatened" by a strange man who is breaking down the walls around her. [62]
[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] A version by Donato was released on the Miami based Vision record label. [32] Mari Wilson recorded a version which appeared on her 1991 The Rhythm Romance album. [33]
"Hold On" is a single by the progressive rock band Kansas. It was the band's 13th single, eighth top 100 hit, and fifth top 40 hit, peaking at number 40. [2] The song was first released on the 1980 album Audio-Visions, which was the last album recorded with the original band before Steve Walsh left.
Spin placed the song at number four in their list of "The 30 Best '90s R&B Songs" in 2017. They wrote: "Producers Foster & McElroy deliver a slow-burning rhythm with a James Brown drum kick, but "Hold On's" greatest element is Herron, Terry Ellis, Dawn Robinson, and Maxine Jones blending their voices into a sound that shifts the culture." [20]