Hold On (High Inergy album) explained

Hold On
Type:	Studio album
Artist:	High Inergy
Cover:	Original album artwork for High Inergy's 1980 Hold On.jpg
Released:	1980
Studio:	The Record Plant, Los Angeles, California The Record Plant, Sausalito, California Motown/Hitsville U.S.A. Recording Studios, Hollywood, California Golden Sound Studio, Holywood, California Rusk Sound Studios, Hollywood, California Evergreen Recording Studio, Burbank, California Kendun Recorders, Burbank, California Rumbo Recorders, Canoga Park, California
Genre:	R&B
Label:	Gordy G7-996 M1
Producer:	Numerous
Prev Title:	Frenzy
Prev Year:	1979
Next Title:	High Inergy
Next Year:	1981

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.^[1]

Side One:

1. "I Just Can't Help Myself" (Donnell Jones, Anthony Mason) - 4:29
2. "Sweet Man" (Marvin Augustus, Patricia Scott) - 4:32
3. "Make Me Yours" (Bettye J. Champion) - 3:30
4. "Hold On to My Love" (Bobby DeBarge, Bunny DeBarge) - 5:03 (High Inergy & Switch)

Side Two:

1. "If I Love You Tonight" (Eddie Coleman, Jr., Gwen Gordy Fuqua, Gwendolyn Fuller) - 3:53
2. "Boomerang Love" (Angelo Bond, William Weatherspoon) - 3:30
3. "I'm a Believer" (Narada Michael Walden) - 3:50
4. "It Was You Babe" (McKinley Jackson, Angelo Bond, Barbara Mitchell) - 5:04

Production

The following information comes from the original vinyl LP.^[1]

• 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.^[1]

• 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

Notes and References

1. Hold On . High Inergy. 1980 . Gordy Records . Hollywood, California .