Disco Dessert 5/17/19 - "I'll Be Holding On" from Al Downing...

"I'll Be Holding On" with an early disco hit for rockabilly country singer Al Downing. A piano player who had a minor pop hit in 1963 with "You Never Miss Your Water" with Esther Phillips, this disco crossover was written by Downing with Lance Quinn and Andrew Smith, and produced by Meco Monardi and Tony BonGiovi (cousin to Jon and founder of the Power Station studio). It topped the Disco Action chart in Billboard magazine for three weeks in 1974, spending 21 weeks on the chart, courtesy of a remix by Tom Moulton. The song also went to #31 on the R&B chart and #85 on Billboard's Hot 100 pop list. Downing would go on to have a string of country hits in the 1980s.