Hold an Old Friend's Hand is the second studio album by American singer Tiffany, released on November 21, 1988, by MCA Records.

[12] The album was recorded and mixed digitally between August and October 1988 on a Trident DI-AN console at Roxx Studios in North Hollywood, California.

[13] It was going to originally include Tiffany's cover of The Rascals' "I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore",[14] but was later removed for unknown reasons.

[19] According to music critic Jim Zebora, the album is a "collection of ballads and romantic pop songs, occasionally with a hint of jazz in the background.

[19] However, according to John Milward of Knight-Ridder, the "more sophisticating" styling of her new music "makes her sound even more like Stevie Nicks.

[18] A "softly propulsive", "California-rock" ballad,[30] it lyrically tells a girl rekindling a love gone bad[23] and asking for a moment with an old friend.

[26] Barry Walters of The San Francisco Examiner stated that the song "conjures images of pedophilia" due to Tiffany's age at the time.

"[31] "Radio Romance" is an up-tempo hi-NRG song that explores disco and doo-wop music,[21][32][33] and lyrically describes a girl getting a request for her "secret love out in [the] radio-land.

"[31] The music production incorporates an "early '60s sound" and a "Phil Spector[-ish] girl group aura" with drum machines.

[34] "We're Both Thinking of Her" explores funk rock[22] and dance-pop music,[26] and lyrically speaks of a girl having fun despite a guilty conscience.

[35] Barry Walters of The San Francisco Examiner was questionable of whether the song has an allusion to a bisexual love triangle.

[25] In the pop-oriented track "Walk Away While You Can",[26] Tiffany sings with a Tina Turner-inspired "gritty delivery and confident stance.

[24] "Drop That Bomb" explores dance-pop music,[25][26] and borrows riffs from Deniece Williams' "Let's Hear It For the Boy", the Pointer Sisters' "He's So Shy", and the Four Seasons' "December 1963 (Oh What A Night)".

[citation needed] The single received minor success in the United States, peaking at the Top 40 on Billboard Hot 100.

[citation needed] In the United States, "It's the Lover (Not the Love)" was released as the fourth and final single of the album in July 1989.

Henderson praised the production of "All This Time" as "clever without being overwrought" and chose "Radio Romance" as the best song on the album.

[31] Music critic Robert Christgau gave the album a "B−", stating that "Maturity doesn't become her--exchanging schlock-rock remakes for still more Hollywood readymades, she's hellbent for biz divahood and may well get there.

Ron Sylvester of The Springfield News-Leader gave the album two out of six strings, stating that Tiffany continues to suffer from the "lack of originality".

He chose "Radio Romance", "Drop the Bomb", and "It's the Lover (Not the Love)" as highlights, describing the latter as a "hint of gaining maturity as a singer.

"[17] Helen Metella of Edmonton Journal criticized the album as "poorly served", but praised her vocals as "fabulously flexible".

[24] Ken Tucker of The Philadelphia Inquirer criticized the album as "even more scattershot and uneven than her debut" and described "Radio Romance" as "sweetly silly".

[22] Jimmy Guterman of Rolling Stone gave this album one out of five stars, stating that the record is "full of the same brand of synthesizer-heavy teen pop, with all hands trying to fill in the massive holes left by the Tiff's weak warble.