Baby Hold On
Eddie Money
1978
Annual listening list: initial release cycle, with recent carryovers; not an original-release-date field. Release chronology remains partly unverified.
Release: 1977
Release: 1977Source checked | Recent carryover
Source-supported first release year of the original recording at year precision. Later single-chart appearances and anthology or remaster dates are separate. Exact user-file audio, edit and mastering remain unverified.
The large badge identifies this listening list, not a newly issued recording. Later reissues and renewed chart popularity do not replace an original release date. How years are assigned.
Eddie Money - official debut album archive
Original Eddie Money album is dated 1977 and contains Baby Hold On.
Eddie Money - licensed original recording date
The retained Baby Hold On recording-specific field identifies 1977, separately from The Essential Eddie Money anthology date. Year precision only.
Eddie Money - Wise Music publisher biography
Columbia debut in 1977, with Baby Hold On and Two Tickets to Paradise; Bill Graham career connection.
Inspiration and background
Researched recording background
Baby Hold On was part of Eddie Money's self-titled 1977 Columbia debut, alongside Two Tickets to Paradise. The publisher's biography places that album at the start of Money's recording breakthrough after Bill Graham helped advance his career. Its original album release predates the song's appearance in the app's 1978 listening list.
Evidence scope: Source-supported recording, release and career context; personal songwriting inspiration is not inferred.
Sources for this information
Eddie Money - official debut album archive
Original Eddie Money album is dated 1977 and contains Baby Hold On. | Retrieved 2026-10-19
Eddie Money - licensed original recording date
The retained Baby Hold On recording-specific field identifies 1977, separately from The Essential Eddie Money anthology date. Year precision only. | Retrieved 2026-10-19
Eddie Money - Wise Music publisher biography
Columbia debut in 1977, with Baby Hold On and Two Tickets to Paradise; Bill Graham career connection. | Retrieved 2026-10-19
Earlier note and its recorded status
Earlier status: Supplied note - not independently verified. This earlier wording is retained as historical context; the reviewed account above is the current summary.
The song was inspired by the desire to hold onto a relationship during difficult times.
Other appearances and versions
catalog version unspecified
Source-supported first release year of the original recording at year precision. Later single-chart appearances and anthology or remaster dates are separate. Exact user-file audio, edit and mastering remain unverified.
An annual chart year and an original release date are different. Similar titles may be covers or different masters; no audio fingerprint has been performed.
Sources and scope
Source-backed annual association (secondary source; not a complete discographic review)
Editorial artist-repertoire classification
Billboard year-end 1978 table (Wikipedia transcription)
Secondary transcription reviewed 2026-10-11: title, artist and annual chart association; not original release date or complete recording metadata.
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