Hold Me (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Hold Me
Type = Album
Artist = Laura Branigan


Released = July 1985
Recorded =
Genre = Pop / Rock
Length = 40:17
Label = Atlantic
Reviews = Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:am6zefwkhgf6~T1 link]
Producer = Jack White, Harold Faltermeyer, Mark Spiro
Arranger = Harold Faltermeyer, Mark Spiro, Gary Usher, Ed Arkin, Tom Keane
Last album = "Self Control"
(1984)
This album = "Hold Me"
(1985)
Next album = "Touch"
(1987) |

"Hold Me" is the fourth album by singer Laura Branigan, released in 1985 (see 1985 in music).

The lead single from Branigan's fourth album was "Spanish Eddie" and was her sixth top 40 hit in two and a half years, although it failed to enter the top 20. A splashy video featuring a newly-svelte Branigan was a hit on the various music video programs of the day (NBC's "Friday Night Videos," TBS' "Night Tracks" and USA's "Night Flight" among the biggest), but was snubbed by MTV. Subsequent release "Hold Me" was a top 40 dance hit and her introduction of the rock ballad "I Found Someone" (cowritten by Michael Bolton) scored even higher on the AC chart, but neither song was supported by a music video and stalled in the lower reaches of the pop charts. Despite the surprising lack of sales, the album had many of her most beloved songs, and not only did she continue to perform "Spanish Eddie" in concert sets throughout her career, but she began a lifelong tradition of closing every show with an encore of "Forever Young", the chilling ballad that was a cult hit by German band Alphaville. Ironically, the album continues to be her most sought-after today, fetching fairly high prices on auction sites, considering hundreds of thousands of copies were in the discount bins less than a year after its release.

Track listing

#"Hold Me" (Beth Andersen, Bill Bodine) – 4:46
#"Maybe Tonight" (Jack White, Mark Spiro) – 3:40
#"Foolish Lullaby" (Jack White, Mark Spiro) – 4:18
#"Spanish Eddie" (David Palmer, Chuck Cochran) – 4:10
#"Forever Young" (Marian Gold, Frank Mertens, Bernhard Lloyd) – 3:57
#"When I'm With You" (Jack White, Mark Spiro, Harold Faltermeyer) – 4:15
#"I Found Someone" (Michael Bolton, Mark Mangold) – 4:01
#"Sanctuary" (Gary Usher, Tom Kelly) – 3:33
#"Tenderness" (Jack White, Mark Spiro, Laura Branigan) – 3:46
#"When The Heat Hits The Streets" (Linda Schreyer & Cappy Capossela) – 3:44

Personnel

*Laura Branigan - vocals
*Nathan Alford, Jr. - percussion
*Beth Anderson - vocals
*Maxine Anderson - vocals
*Eddie Arkin - keyboards
*Larry Ball - bass
*Michael Boddicker - keyboards
*Susan Boyd - vocals
*Kelly Bruss - vocals
*Rod Burton - vocals
*Rosemary Butler - vocals
*Jill Colucci - vocals
*Craig T. Cooper - guitar
*Kevin Dorsey - vocals
*Nathan East - bass
*Michael Egizi - keyboards
*Harold Faltermeyer - synthesizer
*Tommy Funderburk - vocals
*Gary Grant - horn
*Kyle Henderson - vocals
*Gary Herbig - saxophone
*Jerry Hey - horn
*Dann Huff - guitar
*Kim Hutchcroft - horn
*James Ingram - vocals
*Phillip Ingram - vocals
*Angie Jaree - vocals
*Jon Joyce - vocals
*Michael Landau - guitar
*Edie Lehmann - vocals
*Brian Malouf - percussion, keyboards
*Michael Mason - keyboards
*George Merrill - vocals
*Richard Page - vocals
*Alan Pasqua - keyboards
*Bill Reichenbach Jr. - horn
*Andrea Robinson - vocals
*Marc Russo - saxophone
*Richard Ruttenberg - keyboards
*Leslie Spiro - vocals
*Mark Spiro - percussion, keyboards, vocals
*Bo Tomlyn - keyboards
*Larry Williams - saxophone
*Steve Williams - keyboards

Production

*Producer: Jack White

Charts

Album