EXILE: Hang On To Your Heart LP. Ultra RARE Test Pressing White label. Check the Number 1 hits. Best country West Coast AOR LP

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The group’s best album of the 1980s (and one of the best country albums of that decade)

White label records are vinyl records with adhesive plain white labels affixed. Test pressing with catalogue number, artist produced in small quantities (usually under 5 copies) to evaluate the quality of the disc production.

Exile – Hang On To Your Heart [1985]

Profile The group’s best album of the 1980s (and one of the best country albums of that decade). The mix of sounds is strange, since the band seems to “devolve” in harmonies and sophistication, as well as originality. Any LP with “Hang on to Your Heart” on it is worth owning. The sound is excellent, and the annotation is thorough. “Hang On to Your Heart” was released in July 1985 as the first single and was Exile’s sixth number one country hit. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of fifteen weeks on the country chart. There’s not a weak cut, or even a flaccid moment on these ten cuts — four of the songs here were number one hits, but anything here could have been in their place. The songs run the gamut from “She Likes Her Lovin’,” a delightfully libidinous look at love from the distaff side, to “Hang on to Your Heart,” one of the most achingly romantic songs of its era. Side two rocks a little harder than side one, but all of it is very well played and sung even better.

Exile – Hang On To Your Heart
Label: Epic  EPC 26617
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: UK
Released: 1985
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country
Tracklist
A1 Promises, Promises 2:31
A2 I Could Get Used To You 2:41
A3 Hang On To Your Heart 3:34
A4 She Likes Her Lovin’ 3:06
A5 Music 3:32
B1 I Got Love (Super-Dupe Love) 3:53
B2 It’ll Be Me 2:54
B3 Practice Makes Perfect 3:21
B4 Shes Too Good To Be True 3:36
B5 Proud To Be Her Man 2:38

Producer Buddy Killen

the mix of soaring harmonies, long, lyrical melodic lines, acoustic-textured production, and killer hooks on this record make it an extraordinary listening experience. This is where country music melds with soul — not blue-eyed soul of the Righteous Brothers’ or the Actions variety, but where white country singers find that depth and sincerity, in country music, that one associates with soul music. Theres not a weak cut, or even a flaccid moment on these ten cuts — four of the songs here were number one hits, but anything here could have been in their place. The songs run the gamut from “She Likes Her Lovin’,” a delightfully libidinous look at love from the distaff side, to “Hang on to Your Heart,” one of the most achingly romantic songs of its era. Side two rocks a little harder than side one, but all of it is very well played and sung even better.

Here’s another #1 song from Exile. “Hang On To Your Heart” reached the top of the Billboard Country chart in 1985 (Epic 05580).

“Hang On to Your Heart” is a 1985 single by Exile. “Hang On to Your Heart” was written by then-lead singer J.P. Pennington and bass player Sonny LeMaire and was Exiles sixth number one country hit. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of fifteen weeks on the country chart.

“I Could Get Used to You” is a 1985 single by Exile. “I Could Get Used to You” was written by then-lead singer J.P. Pennington and bass player Sonny LeMaire and was the seventh number one country hit for Exile. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of fourteen weeks on the country chart”

“It’ll Be Me”   is a 1986 single by Exile, written by the then-lead singer J.P. Pennington and bass guitarist Sonny LeMaire. With lead vocals by Les Taylor, it was Exiles seventh number one country single in north America. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of fifteen weeks on the country chart.

“Shes Too Good to Be True” is 1987 single by Exile. “Shes Too Good to Be True”, which was written by then-lead singer J.P. Pennington and bass player Sonny LeMaire and featured Les Taylor on lead vocals, was Exiles ninth number one country song. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of fourteen weeks on the country chart.