"Hold Me 'Til the Morning Comes" is a 1983 song by Paul Anka, featuring backing vocals by then Chicago singer Peter Cetera. It was written by Anka with David Foster, and produced by Denny Diante. It was released as the first single from Anka's 1983 album, Walk a Fine Line. It was later included on Anka's 1998 duets album A Body of Work, with re-recorded keyboards and drums.
Lyrical content
The song describes a man who is in a relationship that's dying, yet both are afraid to walk away from it. They both want to keep the relationship alive, yet both acknowledge that it is not the same anymore, and wonder if the other one still loves them.
Chart performance
The song scratched the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at only number 40. It spent four months on the chart, longer than almost all of Anka's other hits, including some of his highest-charting songs. This was his last (and final top 40 hit) of 53 charting pop singles in the US to date. The song also spent three weeks at number two on the US Adult Contemporary chart.[1] It was blocked from the number-one spot first by DeBarge's "All This Love" and then by Rita Coolidge's "All Time High".
In Canada, the song failed to enter the pop singles chart, however, it reached number one on the Adult Contemporary chart in August 1983.[2]
