If I Never Knew You

Infobox Single
Name = If I Never Knew You


Artist = Jon Secada and Shanice
from Album =
Released = September 12, 1995
Format = CD-Single
Recorded = 1995
Genre = Pop
Length = 4:10
Label = Walt Disney Records
Writer =
Producer =
Video director =
Certification =
Chart position = * #51 (UK)
* #108 (US)
Misc = Extra chronology
Artist = Jon Secada
Type = singles
Last single = "Mental Picture"
(1995)
This single = "If I Never Knew You"
(1995)
Next single = "Too Late Too Soon"
(1997)Extra chronology
Artist = Shanice
Type = singles
Last single = "I Wish"
(1994)
This single = "If I Never Knew You"
(1995)
Next single = "When I Close My Eyes"
(1999)Extra tracklisting
Album =
Type = soundtrack
prev_track = "Colors of the Wind" - Vanessa L. Williams
prev_no = 28
this_track = "If I Never Knew You" - Jon Secada & Shanice
track_no = 29
next_track =
next_no = "If I Never Knew You" is the love theme and the second single from Disney's 1995 animated feature "Pocahontas". It is the final track on the "".

The song was originally developed for the prison scene where Pocahontas visits John Smith before he is to be put to death for the alleged murder of Kocoum, a trusted Powhatan warrior whom Pocahontas was going to marry. The musical number, which was about 90% animated, was to be a duet performed by the pair as they acknowledge their love for each other. Because during test screenings with child audiences their attention "seemed to wander from the film", Alan Menken, the composer of the songs for Disney's "Pocahontas", suggested it be cut because he also felt that it slowed the pace of the movie, with another song, "Savages", not five minutes after. Though cut from the movie itself, "If I Never Knew You" was still performed by Jon Secada and Shanice at the end credits and released as a single. In 2001, it was covered by Michael Crawford and Sherie Rene Scott for The Disney Album.In 2006, it was covered by The Cheetah Girls as part of "DisneyMania 4" and released as a single as well as recorded by Hal Ketchum & Shelby Lynne as a part of The Best of Country Sings the Best of Disney. The song was also released as a Spanish single ("Si No Te Conociera," also performed by Jon Secada and Shanice). The Portuguese version was sang by Jon Secada and Daniela Mercury rather than Shanice.

In 2005, Disney released the tenth anniversary edition of "Pocahontas", which had the song fully animated and integrated into the film, but was an optional feature that you could refuse and watch the original theatrical version instead, due to seamless branching. It was performed by Mel Gibson and Judy Kuhn within the film's narrative. It had already been recorded back in 1995.

Track listing

US single
#English Version
#Spanish Version
#Spanglish Version

UK single
#English Version
#Mine Mine Mine - David Ogden Stiers, Mel Gibson and Chorus
#Pocahontas Instrumental
#The Story of Pocahontas

Music videos

*Clips of Pocahontas and John Smith
*Jon Secada and Shanice in new york with clips of Pocahontas

Chart positions

ee also

*""
*"Colors of the Wind"
*"Pocahontas (1995 film)"

Notes & References

External links

* [http://youtube.com/watch?v=kqc33AP0yl8 Official Music Video] at YouTube