HOLD ME TILL THE MORNING COMES
PAUL ANKA & PETER CETERA
SONGWRITERS: DAVID FOSTER & NÂDIYA ZIGHEM
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: WALK A FINE LINE
LABEL: COLUMBIA
RECORDS
GENRE: SOFT
ROCK
YEAR: 1983
Paul
Albert Anka OC (born July 30, 1941) is a Canadian-American
singer, songwriter and actor. Anka became famous with hit songs like "Diana", "Lonely Boy", "Put Your Head on My Shoulder",
and "(You're) Having My Baby". He wrote
such well-known music as the
theme for The Tonight Show Starring
Johnny Carson and one of Tom Jones's biggest hits, "She's
a Lady". He also wrote the English lyrics to Claude François and Jacques
Revaux's music for Frank
Sinatra's signature song, "My Way",
which has been recorded by many, including Elvis
Presley.
In
1983, he co-wrote the song "I Never Heard" with Michael
Jackson. It was retitled and released in 2009, under the title
"This Is It". An additional song that
Jackson co-wrote with Anka from the 1983 session, "Love
Never Felt So Good", was released in 2014 on
Jackson's posthumous album Xscape.
The song was also
released by Johnny Mathis in 1984.
Peter Paul Cetera (/səˈtɛrə/ sə-TERR-ə; born September 13, 1944)
is an American retired singer, songwriter, and bassist best known for being an
original member of the rock band Chicago (1967–1985),
before launching a successful solo career. His career as a recording artist encompasses 17
albums with Chicago and eight solo albums.
With "If
You Leave Me Now", a song written and sung
by Cetera on the group's tenth album, Chicago garnered its first Grammy Award.
It was also the group's first number one single.
As a solo artist, Cetera has scored six Top 40 singles,
including two that reached number one on Billboard's Hot 100 chart
in 1986, "Glory of Love"
and "The
Next Time I Fall". "Glory of
Love", the theme song from the film The
Karate Kid Part II (1986), was co-written by
Cetera, David Foster,
and Diane Nini, and was nominated for both an Academy Award and a Golden
Globe Award for best original song from
a motion picture. In 1987, Cetera received an ASCAP award
for "Glory of Love" in the category, "Most Performed Songs from
Motion Pictures". His performance on "Glory of Love" was
nominated for a Grammy Award for best pop male vocal. That same year Cetera
and Amy Grant,
who duetted on "The Next Time I Fall", were nominated for a Grammy
Award for best vocal performance by a pop duo or group.
Besides
David Foster and Amy Grant, Cetera has collaborated throughout his career with
other nationally known and internationally known recording artists from various
genres of music including: The
Beach Boys, Billy Joel, Karen
Carpenter, Paul Anka, Agnetha Fältskog, Richard
Sterban, Bonnie Raitt, Madonna, David
Gilmour, Az
Yet, Cher, Chaka Khan, Crystal
Bernard, Ronna Reeves, and Alison
Krauss. His songs have been featured in soundtracks for movies
and television.
In 2014, Chicago's first album, Chicago Transit Authority (Columbia,
1969), featuring Cetera on bass and vocals, was inducted into the Grammy
Hall of Fame. Cetera was inducted into
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as
a member of Chicago in April 2016, and he, Robert
Lamm, and James Pankow are
among the 2017 Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees
for their songwriting efforts as members of the group.
"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.
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. 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.
"Hold
Me 'Til the Morning Comes" was included on Anka's collaborative LP, A
Body of Work.
Two broken hearts
Neither one knows what to say
Both falling from love
But not quite all the way
Look at us now
Reachin' back for yesterday
Wanting to know
If the other wants to stay
After all
I'm the one who said we're through
Now I can't live without you, anymore
Out there lost
Is a dream that can come true
Is it worth the reachin' for?
Don't you need me anymore?
Darlin'
Hold me till the mornin' comes
Until I see you smile
Take all the sadness from your eyes
Hold me till the mornin' sun
Let me stay we've just begun
Ooh, stay with you
Where shall we start?
A tender word that we can share
And if we believe
In time we will get there
Look at us now
Wanting more than words can say
Both falling in love
But this time all the way
Out there lost
Are the words: I still love you
Are they worth the reachin' for?
Do you love me anymore?
Darlin'
Hold me till the mornin' comes
Until I see you smile
Take all the sadness from your eyes (no more)
Hold me till the mornin' sun
Let me stay, we've just begun
I want to stay with you
Hold me till the
mornin' comes
Until I see you smile
Take all the sadness from your eyes (no more, no)
Hold me till the mornin' sun
Let me stay, we've just begun
I want to stay with you
Would you love me in
the mornin'? (Would you love me?)
Will you still be there in the mornin'? (Would you love me?)
Or would you leave without a warnin'?
Say you love me too (say you stay)
Would you love me in
the mornin'? (Would you love me?)
Will you still be there in the mornin'? (Would you love me?)
Or would you leave without a warnin'? (Don't go away)
Say you love me too.
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