Don't Let Go (Jesse Stone song)
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"Don't Let Go" is a song written by Jesse Stone. The song was first a hit for Roy Hamilton
in 1958. The Roy Hamilton version reached number two on the R&B charts and number twelve on the pop charts .
Roy Hamilton
Roy Hamilton was an American singer, who achieved major success in the US R&B and pop charts in the 1950s...
in 1958. The Roy Hamilton version reached number two on the R&B charts and number twelve on the pop charts .
Cover versions
- In 1976, the Jerry Garcia BandJerry Garcia BandThe Jerry Garcia Band was a San Francisco Bay Area rock band led by Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. Garcia founded the band in 1975; it remained the most important of his various side-projects until his death in 1995...
recorded this song at the Orpheum TheatreOrpheum Theatre (San Francisco)The Orpheum Theatre is a performance venue located at 1192 Market at Hyde Street in the Civic Center district of San Francisco, California. The theatre first opened in 1926 as one of the many designed by architect B. Marcus Priteca for theater-circuit owner Alexander Pantages. The interior features...
in San Francisco which was later released on an album entitled Don't Let GoDon't Let Go (album)Don't Let Go is the third live album by the Jerry Garcia Band. It was recorded on May 21, 1976 at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco, with a bonus track recorded on September 11 in 1976 at the Keystone in Berkeley....
. - In 1979, Isaac HayesIsaac HayesIsaac Lee Hayes, Jr. was an American songwriter, musician, singer and actor. Hayes was one of the creative influences behind the southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served both as an in-house songwriter and as a record producer, teaming with his partner David Porter during the...
recorded a disco version of the song peaking at number eleven on the soul chart and number eighteen on the Hot 100 . The song was Isaac Hayes' most successful entry on the disco chart, peaking at number three . - In 1990, Jeff LynneJeff LynneJeffrey "Jeff" Lynne is an English songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer who gained fame as the leader and sole constant member of Electric Light Orchestra and was a co-founder and member of The Traveling Wilburys together with George Harrison, Bob...
, of Electric Light OrchestraElectric Light OrchestraElectric Light Orchestra were a British rock group from Birmingham who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001. ELO were formed to accommodate Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne's desire to create modern rock and pop songs with classical overtones...
recorded a cover of the song for his first solo album, Armchair Theatre (album).