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Sam & Dave — Hold on I'm Comin'
Album: Best Of Sam & Dave
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Released: 1966
Length: 2:32
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Don't you ever be sad,
Lean on me when times are bad.
When the day comes and you're down,
In a river of trouble and about to drown

Just hold on, I'm comin',
Hold on, I'm comin'.

I'm on my way, your lover.
If you get cold I'll be your cover.
Don't have to worry `cause I'm here,
No need to suffer baby, I'm here.

Just hold on, I'm comin',
Hold on, I'm comin'.
Hold on, I'm comin',
Hold on, I'm comin'.
(Lookie here)
Reach out to me for satisfaction,
(Lookie here. All you got to do)
Call my name now for quick reaction.

Don't you ever be sad,
Lean on me when the times are bad.
When the day comes and you're down baby,
In a river of trouble and about to drown,

Just hold on, I'm comin',
Hold on, I'm comin'
Just hold on,don't you worry, I'm comin',(here ya come)
Hold on, I'm comin'.

Just hold on,don't you worry I'm comin',
Hold on, I'm comin'.
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Looky here, Baby! Excellent.
Posted 5 months ago by jimboballard    [ Reply ]
Goddamn!! That’s all…
Posted 11 months ago by keenevision    [ Reply ]
 nomnol wrote:


Thanks jj. What about the horn section? Dynamite!

As msbolton posted about 10 months ago: Booker T and the MGs along with the Mar-Keys backed Sam and Dave. Isaac Hayes and David Porter wrote the lyrics. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...(song)
Posted 1 year ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
 On_The_Beach wrote:

"So, Sam, what should we call ourselves?"
"I dunno, Dave. What do you think?"




Posted 2 years ago by eileenomurphy    [ Reply ]
A perfect Stax single. Booker T & the MGs + the Mar-Keys + Isaac Hayes + Sam & Dave. Brilliant.
Posted 2 years ago by msbolton    [ Reply ]
It's always fun to rock out to Sam & Dave -- true U.S. National Treasures -- and their fine music will live on forever!
Posted 2 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
 joejennings wrote:



Cropper & Dunn


Thanks jj. What about the horn section? Dynamite!
Posted 2 years ago by nomnol    [ Reply ]
 Pedro1874 wrote:
Odd thing is they couldn't stand each other!  {#Lol}  This and Soul Man both brilliant and both in "the library".


Just bumping this 😀👍
Posted 2 years ago by Pedro1874    [ Reply ]
Loving the Atlantic Soul this morning; James Brown now Sam&Dave.
Posted 2 years ago by BuellRider    [ Reply ]
 nomnol wrote:

Anyone know who played the music for this? Funk Brothers comes to mind.




Cropper & Dunn
Posted 2 years ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
 ecojot wrote:

Karen Silver did a disco version of this



I never heard it. I don't care for disco. Except for 4 or 5 tunes.
Posted 2 years ago by eileenomurphy    [ Reply ]
Karen Silver did a disco version of this
Posted 2 years ago by ecojot    [ Reply ]
"Don't you ever be sad,
Lean on me when times are bad.
When the day comes and you're down,
In a river of trouble and about to drown

Just hold on, I'm comin',
Hold on, I'm comin'."

— Sam & Dave, Hold on I'm Comin'
Posted 2 years ago by easmann    [ Reply ]
Great! Iconic! Back in '66, Low power (5kw) WMCA 570 AM NYC (The Good Guys), used to play this a lot! High power (50kw) WABC 770 AM NYC didn't play a lot of  black artists until WMCA had been playing them for a while!
Posted 3 years ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
Anyone know who played the music for this? Funk Brothers comes to mind.
Posted 3 years ago by nomnol    [ Reply ]
 WonderLizard wrote:

Best double entendre song title ever.

"Hold on, Lothar, I'm coming." A panel from the Mandrake the

Magician comic strip...

Tony in NJ

W.A.S.T.E.



Posted 3 years ago by tonyinnj    [ Reply ]
Posted 4 years ago by sunflowerbee    [ Reply ]
"So, Sam, what should we call ourselves?"
"I dunno, Dave. What do you think?"
Posted 4 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
with Bruce...

https://youtu.be/RTplny76s7M
Posted 4 years ago by JckTorance    [ Reply ]
Raise your hands and dance !
Posted 4 years ago by stephen.king12101    [ Reply ]
 unclehud wrote:
[played after BillG's announcement of Ginger Baker's death]

What, precisely, are you saying here?  Ginger Baker died, and, "Hold on, I'm coming"?!?

Maybe I'm just in a morbid mood this morning.
 
LOL....Aren't we all coming (or going?) soon too....eventually.....at least we're both thinking of this morbidly and not adolescently.  LLRP
Posted 5 years ago by lizardking    [ Reply ]
[played after BillG's announcement of Ginger Baker's death]

What, precisely, are you saying here?  Ginger Baker died, and, "Hold on, I'm coming"?!?

Maybe I'm just in a morbid mood this morning.
Posted 5 years ago by unclehud    [ Reply ]
 1000121349 wrote:
The version played was different than the one in the Blues Brothers and it did not play to completion, just silence.

 
Fixed, finally (thought I'd done that months ago). 
Posted 8 years ago by William    [ Reply ]
Something's wrong with this recording, as others have noted.
Posted 8 years ago by Tjerome    [ Reply ]
 redeyespy wrote:
When I hear this I recall THE BLUES BROTHERS. This song was playing during the first chase scene, right before Jake and Elwood take a tour of a shopping mall.
 
I feel that more than a kick-ass fun movie "Blues Brothers" is an American Musical History education 

Love this song!!!
Posted 8 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
Transcendent.
Posted 8 years ago by Wilfrue    [ Reply ]
WOW! This and 'Wait Til the Midnight Hour' are songs of the 60's!!  But, like the decade, the CD is imperfect.  Get a new recording, please.
Posted 8 years ago by LizK    [ Reply ]
Truly a great song! Can't sit still with this song pumping on my speakers!
Posted 9 years ago by kanariezwart    [ Reply ]
Exemplary! {#Dancingbanana_2}{#Sunny}{#Chillpill}
Posted 9 years ago by 4merdj    [ Reply ]
file seems to be corrupted. too bad on such a great song. seems to have happened recently because this cut has been clean in the past
Posted 9 years ago by swart    [ Reply ]
 stromdal wrote:
Scratched CD
 
Not just me then... that was over in about 25secs of jumpy snippets!
Posted 9 years ago by toomanyollys    [ Reply ]
Scratched CD
Posted 9 years ago by stromdal    [ Reply ]
 WonderLizard wrote:
Highly recommended is Robert Gordon's history of Stax, Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion . Not least of the many threads running through the book is the almost easy way black and white musicians manufactured the Stax sound in a city where the Freedom Riders' bus burned and Dr. King was assassinated.

 
I watched a great, great documentary about Stax/Volt Records on PBS years ago. I'm not sure if this is the same documentary on YouTube, but it apparently aired on BBC 4 and is likely pretty damned good. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmIzNX0Cr7k

The YouTube uploader, corporalhenshaw, uses two different titles—"The Story of Stax Records" and "The Stax Records"—for the same piece.

WonderLizard is right: black and white musicians worked together without friction and musicians who just happened to be around the studio became famous. As I've written elsewhere on RP, one musician came to Stax for a recording session and finished with time to spare. The engineers gave the leftover time to the musician's driver, Otis Redding. And there's this tidbit from the Wikipedia entry for Booker T. (yes that Booker T.) Jones:

While hanging around the Satellite Record Shop run by Estelle Axton, co-owner of Satellite Records with her brother Jim Stewart, Jones met record clerk Steve Cropper, who would become one of the MGs when the group formed in 1962. Besides Jones on organ and Cropper on guitar, Booker T. and the MGs featured Lewie Steinberg on bass guitar and Al Jackson, Jr. on drums (Donald "Duck" Dunn eventually replacing Steinberg). While still in high school, Jones co-wrote the group's classic instrumental "Green Onions," which was a massive hit in 1962. 

(Stax was originally known as Satellite Records...)
Posted 9 years ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
 Derecho wrote:
"Shit."

"What?"

"Rollers."

"Naw!"

"Yup."

"Shit."



 
Hmm. When I saw that movie as a kid, I did not catch the bit about "Rollers". Until recently I still would have not caught it. I was enlightened when I read Iceberg Slim.
 
Posted 9 years ago by netskink    [ Reply ]
 Peter_Bradshaw wrote:

What kind of music do you usually have here? 
Oh, we got both kinds, country AND western!

 9

 
 
 
LOL!
Posted 9 years ago by netskink    [ Reply ]
 WonderLizard wrote:
Highly recommended is Robert Gordon's history of Stax, Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion . Not least of the many threads running through the book is the almost easy way black and white musicians manufactured the Stax sound in a city where the Freedom Riders' bus burned and Dr. King was assassinated.

 
The same situation is described in the movie "Muscle Shoals", the story of the music coming out of the Shoals around this era.  The "Swampers", backing musicians for many of Aretha's early hits, were all white session players, but they had the funk.  I found it a very interesting movie.
Posted 9 years ago by GawgaBoy    [ Reply ]
Highly recommended is Robert Gordon's history of Stax, Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion . Not least of the many threads running through the book is the almost easy way black and white musicians manufactured the Stax sound in a city where the Freedom Riders' bus burned and Dr. King was assassinated.
Posted 10 years ago by WonderLizard    [ Reply ]

What kind of music do you usually have here? 
Oh, we got both kinds, country AND western!

 9

 
 
Posted 10 years ago by Peter_Bradshaw    [ Reply ]
"Shit."

"What?"

"Rollers."

"Naw!"

"Yup."

"Shit."


Posted 11 years ago by Derecho    [ Reply ]
Odd thing is they couldn't stand each other!  {#Lol}  This and Soul Man both brilliant and both in "the library".
Posted 11 years ago by Pedro1874    [ Reply ]

Posted 11 years ago by richlister    [ Reply ]
Exactly what I needed this morning!
Posted 11 years ago by justboy68    [ Reply ]

Back story of this songs creation courtesy of Bob Lefsetz:

Isaac Hayes was at the organ, David Porter was in the bathroom, it was late at night, they were writing a song, Isaac was impatient, he implored Porter to come back into the studio. Porter yelled out HOLD ON, I’M COMIN’!

And then Porter immediately came out of the loo with his pants around his ankles, screaming THAT’S IT!


Posted 12 years ago by ghcollins86    [ Reply ]
This one goes to 11. And that's on a bad day. 
Posted 12 years ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
Toes a tappin and a big ol' grin :)
Posted 13 years ago by kayumann    [ Reply ]
Dancin' around the breakfast table!
Posted 13 years ago by Grammarcop    [ Reply ]
I never knew what this song was called, it is quite good!!
Posted 13 years ago by fast_eddie    [ Reply ]
 Gutter wrote:
Mrs. Tarantino: Are you the police?
Elwood: No, ma'am. We're musicians.
 
Mr. Man! 

Posted 13 years ago by casey1024    [ Reply ]
 redeyespy wrote:
When I hear this I recall THE BLUES BROTHERS. This song was playing during the first chase scene, right before Jake and Elwood take a tour of a shopping mall.
 
That's right, Elwood pushes the tape into the tape player, Sam & Dave starts up, and the cops give chase ('rollers') On another level, it's sad though how 'Atlantic' helped to screw over 'Stax' during the Sam & Dave era, by tricking them into signing away the rights to the original master recordings for all of Stax's Atlantic-distributed recordings

Both label logos are classics

    
Posted 13 years ago by drews    [ Reply ]
Classic by The Sultans of Sweat.  My memories of this tune long precede arrival of The Blues Brothers though.
Posted 14 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
too bad cuz I'm good at helpin ;)
Posted 14 years ago by peacockangel    [ Reply ]
 Glencoe_JC wrote:

Hee hee...ma laptop's bouncin' {#Dance}
 

Yes, that is what I mean by Boogie Down Productions!{#Cheers}
Posted 14 years ago by sirdroseph    [ Reply ]
 RadioDoc wrote:
If this doesn't get your feet movin' and your hips swayin', your soul is dead.

9
 
Hee hee...ma laptop's bouncin' {#Dance}
Posted 14 years ago by Glencoe_JC    [ Reply ]
 ziggytrix wrote:

say what?
 

Boogie Down Productions!{#Bananajam}

Edit: Believe me, as one of the few Hip Hop fans who listen to this station, I definitely know who BDP is.{#Yes}
Posted 14 years ago by sirdroseph    [ Reply ]
 sirdroseph wrote:
Boogie Down Productions!!!{#Dancingbanana}
 
say what?
Posted 14 years ago by ziggytrix    [ Reply ]
Boogie Down Productions!!!{#Dancingbanana}
Posted 14 years ago by sirdroseph    [ Reply ]
Great followup to Neko, Bill!
Posted 15 years ago by kaybee    [ Reply ]
Mrs. Tarantino: Are you the police?
Elwood: No, ma'am. We're musicians.
Posted 15 years ago by Gutter    [ Reply ]
AAAAAAWWWW YEEEEAAAAAAH
Posted 15 years ago by songbirdfemme    [ Reply ]
If this doesn't get your feet movin' and your hips swayin', your soul is dead.

9
Posted 15 years ago by RadioDoc    [ Reply ]
 sirdroseph wrote:
{#Dancingbanana}
 
any chance to get those guys dance to the beat? that'd be WAY cool ... !!
{#Bananajumprope}{#Dancingbanana}{#Dancingbanana_2}{#Dancingbanana_2}{#Dancingbanana}{#Bananajumprope}

( btw i *love* this music, even though it was made before i was...)

Posted 15 years ago by fimo    [ Reply ]
That's Booker T and the MG's back there too...
Posted 15 years ago by sherf    [ Reply ]
{#Dancingbanana}
Posted 15 years ago by sirdroseph    [ Reply ]
Loved it then and still do.  This song and Soul Man were two big hits for them.
Posted 15 years ago by bachbeet    [ Reply ]
I have seen these two Gentleman live,best Song and Dance performance I have seen.
                            {#Dancingbanana}        {#Dancingbanana_2}

Posted 15 years ago by HazzeSwede    [ Reply ]
classic....{#Jump}
Posted 15 years ago by ydjb    [ Reply ]
Wow — I didn't realize until hearing this that it's a cover of this song that's on Bird York's album. Duh.
Posted 15 years ago by ginger    [ Reply ]
10.
Posted 15 years ago by Wonderloaf    [ Reply ]
 redeyespy wrote:
When I hear this I recall THE BLUES BROTHERS. This song was playing during the first chase scene, right before Jake and Elwood take a tour of a shopping mall.
 

best movie eva

i know the scenes well

so you want out of this parking lot?


OKAY!
Posted 15 years ago by Wonderloaf    [ Reply ]
Best double entendre song title ever.
Posted 15 years ago by WonderLizard    [ Reply ]
Was lucky to be a back-up singer with a band who covered this song and other Sam and Dave tunes ... ah, blissful youth!
Posted 15 years ago by JoBo    [ Reply ]
Best... song... ever...
Posted 16 years ago by Brotherchaos1980    [ Reply ]
When I hear this I recall THE BLUES BROTHERS. This song was playing during the first chase scene, right before Jake and Elwood take a tour of a shopping mall.
Posted 21 years ago by redeyespy    [ Reply ]