Hold Me 'Til the Mornin' Comes

"Hold Me 'Til the Morning Comes" is a song by Paul Anka, featuring backing vocals by former Chicago singer Peter Cetera. It was co-written by Anka with David Foster. It was the first release and only hit from his LP, Walk a Fine Line.

"Hold Me 'Til the Morning Comes"
Single by Paul Anka
from the album Walk a Fine Line
B-side"This Is the First Time"
ReleasedJune 1983
Format7" (45 rpm)
GenreSoft rock
Length4:28
LabelColumbia Records
Songwriter(s)Paul Anka, David Foster
Producer(s)Denny Diante
Paul Anka singles chronology
"Lady Lay Down"
(1981)		 "Hold Me 'Til the Morning Comes"
(1983)		 "Gimme the Word"
(1984)

The song describes a man who is in a relationship that's dying, yet both are afraid to walk away from it. He struggles with ambivalent feelings, however, still longs to hold on to the love they have shared.

The song scratched the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking only at number 40. It spent four months on the chart, longer than almost all of Anka's other hits, including some of his highest-charting songs. This was his last (and final Top 40 hit) of 53 charting pop singles in the US to date. The song also spent three weeks at number two on the US Adult Contemporary chart.[1] It was blocked from the number-one spot first by DeBarge's "All This Love" and then by Rita Coolidge's "All Time High".

In Canada, the song failed to enter the pop singles chart, however, reached number one on the Adult Contemporary chart in August 1983.[2]

"Hold Me 'Til the Morning Comes" was included on Anka's collaborative LP, A Body of Work.[3]

Chart performance

Weekly charts
Chart (1983) Peak
position
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary[2] 1
US Billboard Hot 100[4] 40
US Billboard Adult Contemporary[1] 2
US Cash Box Top 100[5] 38

Sampling/use in media

References
  1. "Adult Contemporary Music Chart". Billboard.
  2. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.6241&type=1&interval=50&PHPSESSID=hpta67f5jkfmr4nru1ps22e7u2
  3. "Paul Anka - Walk A Fine Line". Discogs.
  4. "Hold Me 'Til The Morning Comes by Paul Anka - Songfacts". www.songfacts.com.
  5. "Cash Box Top 100 Singles, September 17, 1983". Archived from the original on March 28, 2016. Retrieved March 20, 2017.
  6. "Hold Me 'Til the Mornin' Comes by Paul Anka on WhoSampled". WhoSampled.
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