Hold the Line

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“Hold the Line”
“Hold the Line” cover
Single by Toto
from the album Toto
B-side "Takin' It Back"
Released 1978
Format 7"
Genre Rock
Length 3:56
Label Columbia
Writer(s) David Paich
Toto singles chronology
"Hold the Line"
(1978)
"I'll Supply the Love
(1978)
Alternate Cover
German version
German version

"Hold the Line" is a late-1978/early-1979 hit single by the American rock group Toto. The song was the band's very first single, and was featured on their debut eponymous album. It was also a #5 hit single in the US during the winter of 1978–79.

[edit] Trivia

  • The song was covered in the former Yugoslavia by singer Zdravko Čolić under the title "Oktobar je, pocinje sezona kise" "It's October, the rainy season is beginning."
  • The song was featured on the 2004 game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on the classic rock radio station K-DST, and in the 2006 Adam Sandler comedy Click.
  • In an episode of That '70s Show, Fez sings it in a Bogart-like fantasy that Eric has.
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