WCSX Classic Cuts : Baby Hold On
WCSX Classic Cuts
Eddie Money: “Baby Hold On”
The Hook: The record company thought his best song for his debut album, “Two Tickets to Paradise,” wasn’t commercial enough, so he wrote this.
Year: 1977
Album: Eddie Money
Writers: Jimmy Lyon and Eddie Money
Stats: Peaked at number-11 on the Billboard Hot 100
Background: Eddie Money wrote “Baby Hold On” for his debut album at the urging of his record label. He explains why he needed to write it, and what almost happened after it became a hit.
Eddie Money on why he needed to write “Baby Hold On” after he submitted “Two Tickets to Paradise” to his record label. OC:…little younger. :28
“It took me six months to write ‘Two Tickets to Paradise.’ I’d spent a lot of time at a piano writing the song, and when it wasn’t really commercial enough for Columbia Records, Jimmy Lyon and I had to write ‘Baby Hold On.’ And then I think Doris Day was talking about suing, because of ‘Que Sera Sera.’ I didn’t really believe that it was [like it]. ‘Whatever will be, will be/The future is ours to see/[sings]Que sera sera.’ I mean I saw the movie and maybe subconsciously I wrote the song, but I wasn’t really thinking of Doris Day when I wrote ‘Baby hold on to me.’ I like my blondes a little younger.”
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