The Black Sorrows Hold On To Me Vinyl

Hold Onto Me is the fifth studio album by Australian rock band The Black Sorrows, originally released in September 1988 via CBS Records in Australia and Epic Records in the US.

The Black Sorrows are an Australian blues and roots rock band formed in 1983 by mainstay vocalist Joe Camilleri (ex-Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons), who also plays saxophone and guitar. Camilleri has used various line-ups in the band to record seventeen studio albums to date.

Hold Onto Me was the first album to feature Vika and Linda Bull on vocals as members of the band.

The album peaked at #7 on the Australian Albums Chart in May 1989 and remained in the Top 50 for 46 weeks. It provided two Top 40 hits on the associated Singles Chart: "Chained to the Wheel" (March 1989 – their highest charting single at #9) and "The Crack-Up". At the ARIA Music Awards in 1990, they won Best Group. Internationally Hold on to Me peaked at #6 on the Norwegian Albums Chart; #18 on the Swedish Albums Chart; #35 on the New Zealand Albums Charts.

All the songs on the album were written by Joe Camilleri and Nick Smith, with production duties being shared by Jeff Burstin and Camilleri.