Hold Your Horses (First Choice album)

Hold Your Horses
Studio album by First Choice
Released	1979
Recorded	Musicland, Munich, Germany Sigma Sound, 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
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul	[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.

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.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Let Me Down Easy"	David Jordan, Andrew Smith	6:20
2.	"Good Morning Midnight"	Thor Baldursson, Mats Bjöerklund, Pete Bellotte	3:57
3.	"Great Expectations"	Thor Baldursson, Mats Bjöerklund, Pete Bellotte	5:33

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
4.	"Hold Your Horses"	Kathleen Poppy, Les Hurdle, Frank Ricotti, Peter Gosling	5:50
5.	"Love Thang"	Melvin Steals, Mervin Steals, McKinley Jackson	5:41
6.	"Double Cross"	Norman Harris, Ron Tyson	6:59

2013 remastered reissue bonus tracks

No.	Title	Length
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

• Rochelle Fleming, Annette Guest, Debbie Martin – vocals

Musicland Studios

• Keith Forsey – percussion, drums
• Les Hurdle – bass
• Mats Björklund – guitar
• Thor Baldursson – keyboards
• Larry Washington – congas
• Tom Moulton – tambourine
• Munich Philharmonic – strings
• Don Renaldo – horns
• John Davis – saxophone solo on "Let Me Down Easy

Sigma Sound Studios

• Keith Benson – drums
• Jimmy Williams – bass
• Norman Harris, Bobby Eli, T.J. Tindall – guitars
• Eugene "Lambchops" Curry – keyboards
• Larry Washington, James Walker – congas
• Don Renaldo – strings, horns

Charts

Chart (1979)	Peak [4]
U.S. Billboard Top LPs	135
U.S. Billboard Top Soul LPs	58

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions
		US R&B [4]	US Dan [4]
1979	"Hold Your Horses"	73	—
	"Double Cross"	60	—
	"Love Thang"	—	52

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. "US Charts > First Choice". Billboard. Retrieved 25 January 2018.

External links

• Hold Your Horses at Discogs (list of releases)