"Love's Got a Hold on You" is the title of a song written by Carson Chamberlain

Carson Chamberlain

Carson Chamberlain is an American songwriter, record producer and steel guitarist who works mainly in the field of country music....

, Jackson's road manager, and Keith Stegall

Keith Stegall

Robert Keith Stegall is an American country music recording artist and record producer. Active since 1980, Stegall has recorded two-major label studio albums: 1985's Keith Stegall and 1996's Passages...

, his producer, and recorded by American country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 artist Alan Jackson

Alan Jackson

Alan Eugene Jackson is an American country music singer, known for blending traditional honky tonk and mainstream country sounds and penning many of his own hits. He has recorded 13 studio albums, 3 Greatest Hits albums, 2 Holiday albums, 1 Gospel album and several compilations, all on the Arista...

. It was released in July 1992 as the final single from Jackson's second album, Don't Rock the Jukebox

Don't Rock The Jukebox

-Track listing:# "Don't Rock the Jukebox" – 2:52# "That's All I Need to Know" – 3:47# "Dallas" – 2:45# "Midnight in Montgomery" – 3:46...

It was also the only song that Jackson did not co-write on the album. It peaked at number 1 on both the U.S. Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

country music chart, and on the Canadian RPM country music chart.

Content

The narrator is falling in love and doesn't know why he is acting different than he used to. He asks the doctor and then his friends, they all say that it sounds like he is falling in love.

Critical reception

Deborah Evans Price, of Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

magazine reviewed the song favorably, saying that "love has him in a lassoed condition." She goes on to say that Jackson's "rich vocal romping hooks this catchy twirl." The production was described as "big-sounding" and that it adds "just the right snap."

Peak chart positions

"Love's Got a Hold on You" debuted at number 52 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of July 25, 1992.

Chart (1992)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs	1
Canadian RPM Country Chart	1