“Hold On, I’m Comin’” was a bit of soulful reassurance from R&B vocal legends Sam & Dave. Off the debut LP from Sam Moore and Dave Prater, released in 1966 and also called Hold On, I’m Comin’, this song rose to #21. “Hold On” was released on the Memphis-based Stax label. Stax’s Al Bell told WGBH about what inspired Isaac Hayes and David Porter to write it: Porter “was going someplace one day with Isaac Hayes and as you came out of Studio A, going out the front of the theater to the right, there was a bathroom. Isaac had come out and was in the bathroom there, taking care of some private matters, and David was in a hurry to get out of the building. He kept hollering to Isaac, ‘Come on, come on, let’s go man, let’s go, let’s go, let’s go,’ and Isaac said, ‘Hold on, I’m coming.’”
While campaigning for the presidency in 2008, Barack Obama would play this song. Moore wrote him a letter, putting a stop to it: “I have not agreed to endorse you for the highest office in our land. I reserve my right to determine who I will support when and if I choose to do so. My vote is a very private matter between myself and the ballot box. My endorsement and support of a candidate, because I do carry some celebrity, makes it quite a different matter.” Moore told ClassicBands.com about where Sam & Dave were at when this song dropped. Geographically, that is: “By the time ‘Hold On, I’m Comin’’ came out, we were traveling all over the place. I had gotten this big band. Oh, my God, we stayed out on the road. I stayed so long I should be like Dr. Dre now. I should be a billionaire. We traveled a whole lot, man.” From: https://genius.com/Sam-and-dave-hold-on-im-comin-lyrics
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Saturday, January 25, 2025
Sam & Dave - Hold On I'm Comin'
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