Hold Your Horses (First Choice album)

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Hold Your Horses
First choice hold your horses album.jpeg
Studio album by
First Choice
Released1979
Recorded Musicland Studios
(Munich, West Germany)
Sigma Sound Studios
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Genre Soul, Philadelphia soul, disco
Label Gold Mind
Producer Tom Moulton, Thor Baldursson, McKinley Jackson, Norman Harris
First Choice chronology
Delusions
(1977)		Hold Your Horses
(1979)		 Breakaway
(1980)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]

Hold Your Horses is a studio album by American female vocal trio First Choice. [3] It was released in 1979 on the Gold Mind label.

Contents

History

The album features the title track, which peaked at No. 73 on the Hot Soul Singles chart, and "Double Cross", which peaked at No. 60 on the same chart. The album was remastered and reissued with bonus tracks in 2013 by Big Break Records.

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Let Me Down Easy"David Jordan, Andrew Smith6:20
2."Good Morning Midnight" Thor Baldursson, Mats Bjöerklund, Pete Bellotte 3:57
3."Great Expectations" Thor Baldursson, Mats Bjöerklund, Pete Bellotte5:33
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
4."Hold Your Horses"Kathleen Poppy, Les Hurdle, Frank Ricotti, Peter Gosling5:50
5."Love Thang"Melvin Steals, Mervin Steals, McKinley Jackson5:41
6."Double Cross" Norman Harris, Ron Tyson 6:59
2013 remastered reissue bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
7."Now That I've Thrown It All Away"3:36
8."Let No Man Put Asunder" (12" Disco Madness Remix)4:40
9."Double Cross" (12" Promotional Disco Remix)7:36
10."Love Thang" (12" Disco Mix)7:54
11."Hold Your Horses" (Single Version)2:38
12."Double Cross" (12" Extended Disco Mix)10:01
13."Double Cross" (12" Larry Levan Remix)7:18

Personnel

Musicland Studios
Sigma Sound Studios

Charts

Chart (1979)Peak
[4]
U.S. Billboard Top LPs 135
U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs 58
Singles
YearSinglePeak chart positions
US
R&B
[4] 		US
Dan
[4]
1979"Hold Your Horses"73—
"Double Cross"60—
"Love Thang"—52

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References

  1. ↑ Hamilton, Andrew. Hold Your Horses review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
  2. ↑ Larkin, Colin (1998). The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul. Virgin. p. 117.
  3. ↑ "Kathy's New Hit". Bracknell and Ascot Times. 25 Jan 1979. p. 6.
  4. 1 2 3 "US Charts > First Choice". Billboard . Retrieved 25 January 2018.
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