''Hold On'' was the fifth album by

High Inergy High Inergy was an American R&B and soul girl group who found fame on Motown Records in the late 1970s. They are best known for the hit song, " You Can't Turn Me Off (In the Middle of Turning Me On)". History High Inergy started in 1976 when the ...

. Like their previous three albums, this one was a commercial and critical disappointment. It peaked at #70 on

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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, "

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", which Andrew Hamilton in his

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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 #"

" ( Bettye J. Champion) - 3:30 #"Hold On to My Love" (

Bobby DeBarge Robert Louis DeBarge, Jr. (March 5, 1956 – August 16, 1995) was an American singer and musician. DeBarge was the lead singer of the Motown R&B/soul vocal group Switch and was noted for his falsetto vocals. Later on, he served as both mentor ...

Bunny DeBarge Etterlene "Bunny" DeBarge (born March 10, 1955) is an American soul singer–songwriter and the lone female sibling of the Motown family group DeBarge. She was the lead vocalist on the R&B ballad " A Dream", from the group's ''In a Special Way'' ...

) - 5:03 (

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) ;Side Two: #"If I Love You Tonight" (Eddie Coleman, Jr.,

Gwen Gordy Fuqua Gwen Fuqua (born Gwendolyn Gordy; November 26, 1927 – November 8, 1999) was an American businesswoman, songwriter and composer, most notably writing hit songs such as "Lonely Teardrops", "All I Could Do Was Cry" and "Distant Lover". She acqui ...

, Gwendolyn Fuller) - 3:53 #"Boomerang Love" (Angelo Bond, William Weatherspoon) - 3:30 #"I'm a Believer" (

Narada Michael Walden Narada Michael Walden ( ; Michael Walden; born April 23, 1952) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. He acquired the nickname Narada from Sri Chinmoy. He began his career as a drummer, working primarily in the jazz ...

) - 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.,

(co-producer), Gambler's Productions, McKinley Jackson,

and William Weatherspoon *Executive Producer:

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Session musicians (partial list)

The following information comes from the original vinyl LP. *

Eddie "Bongo" Brown Eddie "Bongo" Brown (September 13, 1932 – December 28, 1984) was an American musician born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. Brown played congas, Bongo drum, bongos, the gourd and claves for Motown Records' in-house ...

- percussion *

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- drums * Paulinho DaCosta - percussion *

- piano *

Tommy DeBarge The DeBarge family is a family of rhythm and blues artists from Grand Rapids, Michigan. In 1975, Bobby left Grand Rapids to start the funk-soul band, Switch (Tommy later joined the band), which first went by the moniker, First Class. Eventually ...

- bass * Quentin Dennard - drums *

Nathan East Nathan Harrell East (born December 8, 1955) is an American jazz, R&B, and rock bass player and vocalist. With more than 2,000 recordings, East is one of the most recorded bass players in the history of music. East holds a Bachelor of Arts degr ...

- bass *

Phillip Ingram Phillip Ingram (born 1958) is an American musician. He is perhaps best known as one of the founding members of the Motown Group "Switch" and is the younger brother of James Ingram. Biography Ingram was raised in Akron, Ohio. He came from a musi ...

- percussion * Paul M. Jackson, Jr. - guitar *

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- bass * Melvin "Wah Wah" Ragin - guitar *

- drums

References

1980 albums Gordy Records albums Albums produced by Narada Michael Walden High Inergy albums {{1980s-R&B-album-stub