Nick Gilder - Hold On Me Tonight (1979 - CAN) [AOR, Melodic Rock]

Fantastic track from Nick Gilder's 1979 album "Frequency"!! Enjoy it!!! Musicians: • Vocals -- Nick Gilder • Bass, Backing Vocals -- Eric Nelson • Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals -- Craig Krampf • Guitar -- James McCulloch • Keyboards, Guitar, Synthesizer, Backing Vocals -- Jamie Herndon Written by -- James McCulloch, Nick Gilder Tracklisting: Side 1 (You Really) Rock Me 2:45 Time After Time 4:21 Metro Jets 4:05 Electric Love 3:10 The Brightest Star 3:35 Side 2 Watcher Of The Night 3:41 Worlds Collide 4:54 Hold On Me Tonight 6:02 Into The 80's 2:53 Produced by Peter Coleman Chrysalis Records 1979 Nicholas George "Nick" Gilder (born December 21, 1951), is an English-Canadian musician who first came to prominence as the frontman for the glam rock band Sweeney Todd. He later had a successful solo career as a singer as well as a songwriter, notably with the new wave band Scandal. Biography: Born in London, England, Gilder was raised in Vancouver. He began his career as front-man for the glam rock band Sweeney Todd, which later briefly featured a very young Bryan Adams. Sweeney Todd had a number one hit, "Roxy Roller", that held on to the top spot in the Canadian music charts for three weeks in 1975. It went on to win a Juno Award for "Best Selling Single" in 1977. Feeling they had international scope, Gilder and fellow band member, guitarist and songwriting partner, James McCulloch left the band and signed a US record deal. In his second solo album, which spawned the hit "Hot Child in the City", Gilder also reached chart success in the United States. That song went to No.1 both in Canada and the US. It also earned him two more Juno Awards: "Single of the Year" and for "Most Promising Male Vocalist of the Year" in Canada as well as a People's Choice Award in the US. It stalled outside the Top 40 in the United Kingdom, though it was featured on Top of the Pops and also in a Hot Gossip dance routine on The Kenny Everett Video Show. Gilder has also been successful as a songwriter for artists such as Bette Midler, Joe Cocker and Pat Benatar. In 1984, the band Scandal featuring Patty Smyth had a number one hit with "The Warrior," which was written by Gilder and Holly Knight, and it earned him a BMI Airplay Award. Gilder's songs have been used in several movies such as Youngblood with Rob Lowe, The Wraith with Charlie Sheen, Barb Wire with Pamela Anderson, Scenes From the Goldmine, which includes a cameo appearance by Gilder, and in TV series like Sex and the City, That '70s Show, Ed (TV series), and most recently Nip/Tuck. Armand Van Helden sampled "Rockaway" on his 2005 club hit, "When the Lights Go Down." The following year Nemesis recorded "Hot Child in the City" for their 2006 debut CD, Rise Up and Rocket recorded "Backstreet Noise" for their CD, Girls with Candy Hearts. Phoenix-based power pop band Sugar High recorded the song "Time After Time" for a proposed tribute album and have included the song in concert. Gilder returned to Canada in the mid-1990s, where he continues to record and tour. He has currently settled in Port Moody, British Columbia, where he lives with his family. A CD called, "A Night On The Town, A Day In The Country" was to be released in 2005, but was shelved

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