Released June 1983 Length 4:28 | Format 7" (45 rpm) Label Columbia Records | |
B-side "This Is the First Time" Writer(s) Paul Anka, David Foster | ||
"Hold Me 'Til the Mornin' 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.
Although peaking only at number 40, the song spent four months on the Billboard Hot 100, longer than almost all of Anka's other hits, including some of his highest-charting songs. "Hold Me 'Til the Mornin' Comes" was his last of 53 charting pop singles in the US. The song also reached number two on the US Adult Contemporary chart.
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 Mornin' Comes" was included on Anka's collaborative LP, A Body of Work.
The song will appear in the upcoming Disney animated feature Zootopia.