If Only You Knew

Infobox Single
Name = "If Only You Knew"'


Artist = Patti LaBelle
from Album = I'm in Love Again
Released = October 28, 1983
Format = Maxi single
Genre = Rhythm and blues, Soul
Length = 4:42
Label = Philadelphia International/CBS
Producer = Cynthia Biggs, Dexter Wansel, Kenneth Gamble
Chart position = *46 (U.S.)
Last single = "I'll Never, Never Give Up"
(1983)
This single = "If Only You Knew"
(1983)
Next single = "Love Has Finally Come at Last"
(1984)

If Only You Knew was a single written and produced primarily by Dexter Wansel and Cynthia Biggs for American R&B singer Patti LaBelle's sixth solo album, "I'm in Love Again". It was released as the album's second single in 1983, spending four weeks at number one on the U.S. R&B charts during January and February 1984.

Writing

Following her success during the 1970s with the group, LaBelle, Patti LaBelle signed a solo deal with Epic Records. LaBelle endured a series of commercial failures, though gaining critical acclaim. Desiring popular success, she signed with Gamble and Huff's Philadelphia International Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Records, then CBS. Producer Dexter Wansel and songwriter Cynthia Biggs collaborated with lyrics and instrumental composition of the song with Gamble gaining writing credit by making minor edit to the lyrics. Gamble suggested the title, "If Only You Knew".

Chart performance

"If You Only Knew" stayed at number one on the U.S. R&B charts for four weeks and peaked number 46 on the U.S. pop charts in early 1984.

ee also

[http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:blu06j3b71l0 AMG's All Music Guide]