Album: Hold On To What You've Got (1965)

Charted: 5

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• You'd better hold on, hold on to what you've got
  You'd better hold on, hold on to what you've got
  'Cause if you think nobody wants it
  Just throw it away and you will see
  Someone will have it before you can count one, two, three
  Yes they will, yes they will
  Listen fellows, you know it's not all the time
  That a man can have a good woman
  A women he can call his very own
  A woman who will stay right there at home
  And mind the children while he's gone to work
  A woman who will have his dinner cooked
  When he comes home
  Where some men make mistakes is
  When they go out and stay because they feel
  That no other man wants his woman but him??
  But listen, if you think no other man wants her
  Just throw her away and you will see
  Some men will have her before you can count one, two, three
  Yes he will, yes he will
  
  Listen girls, this goes for you too
  Because you know I've seen so many women who've had so many good men in life
  Men who would stand by them through thick and thin
  Men who'd go to work everyday and
  Bring home their hard earned pay
  Men who'd give their woman anything
  That their little hearts desired
  Where some women make mistakes is
  When their men go out and let 'em play they would stay
  Because they felt that no other woman wanted him but her
  Listen, if you think no other woman wants him
  Just pitch him out in the street and you will see
  Some woman will have your man
  Before you can count one, two, three
  Yes she will, yes she will Writer/s: JOE TEX
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Comments: 4

• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn March 3rd 1965, Joe Tex performed "Hold What You've Got" on the ABC-TV program 'Shindig!'...
  Five days earlier on February 27th the song was at #44 on Billboard's Hot Top 100, and that was also its last day on the chart; a little over five weeks earlier on January 24th it had peaked at #5 {See 2nd post below}...
  On the day of Mr. Tex's appearance on Shindig! he had two records on the Top 100; "You Better Get It" was at #59 while the record's B-side, "You Got What It Takes" was at #72, but interestingly, he didn't perform either of them on 'Shindig!'.
• Rotunda from Tulsa, OkOh boy! Thanks to Barry of Sauquoit, NY for the info on Joe Tex. This song hit HUGE in my area in '65. It was the first time I ever heard of Joe Tex, but I became a fan right away. He sure had a mess of hits in the Sixties and the Seventies. My personal favorite is "Skinny Legs and All." I just wondered if it was recorded live or if it was in a studio. I thought this song was hit first recording and was surprised to learn he had several releases before this that didn't do so well. It just shows you to persevere with your pursuits! Joe Tex was quite an R&B artist.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn January 24th 1965, "Hold What You've Got" by Joe Tex peaked at #5 (for 1 week) and spent 11 weeks on the Top 100...
  And on January 16th, 1965 it reached #1 (for 2 weeks) on *Cash Box's Top R&B Singles chart
  Between 1964 and 1979 he had thirty-five hits on the R&B Singles chart; with eleven making the Top 10 and four reaching #1; "Hold What You've Got" (1964), "I Want To (Do Everything For You)" (1965), "A Sweet Woman Like You" (1966), and "I Gotcha" (1972)...
  R.I.P. Mr. Tex, born Joseph Arrington, Jr., (1933 - 1982)...
  * From Nov. 1963 to Jan. 1965 Billboard Magazine did not publish an R&B Singles chart.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyThis record was his first record to chart and it peaked at No. 5; it wouldn't be until his 17th charted record before he made the Top 10 again.
  That record was 'Skinny Legs and All', it peaked at No. 10!!! {My favorite Joe Tex song}

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