The song starts off in E major and is D flat in the verses.
Wansel featured drums, bass, rhythm guitar, and strings it was arranged by John R. It was written and composed by Dexter Wansel and Cynthia Biggs with Wansel as its producer. "If Only You Knew" was recorded in July 1982 at Philadelphia's Sigma Sound Studios it was released a year later in October 1983 as the first song off LaBelle's second Philadelphia International album, I'm in Love Again. "If Only You Knew" was given its title after Gamble settled a dispute between Wansel and Biggs over a lyric line.
Later, LaBelle recorded another song with Wansel and Biggs showing most of her mid-range, with jazz saxophonist Grover Washington, Jr., on the song " The Best Is Yet to Come", later featured on Washington's album of the same name in 1983. When it came to release a track from the album, Gamble & Huff chose "If Only You Knew" as the first single since they felt the song had "hit potential" among the songs featured on the album. At first LaBelle sought to record the song in a straightforward approach, however, Wansel wanted LaBelle to perform it at her mid-range and smile while singing because "her vocals were clearer when she smiled." LaBelle and Wansel agreed to a compromise: during the verses and during most of the duration of the track, LaBelle would sing at her softer mid-range tone while delivering the final choruses with a full-throated soprano vocal range.īecause LaBelle was busy at work on Broadway and other projects, it took over a year before songs from her second album, I'm in Love Again, were completed the following year. During the 1982 recording sessions, Wansel and Biggs presented LaBelle with a mid-tempo song titled "If Only You Knew", about a person seeking an unsuspecting love interest. The duo had composed a previous song for LaBelle, "Shoot Him on Sight", off The Spirit's in It. In the summer of 1982, while on a break from the Broadway play, Your Arm's Too Short to Box with God, LaBelle entered Sigma Sound Studios to record with writing-producing team Dexter Wansel and Cynthia Biggs.
Due to PIR's fallout with pop audiences at the end of the seventies and again struggling to find a recording suitable to become a major hit for the singer, the album failed to produce hits like her previous four offerings. The label helped to produce her first album for PIR, The Spirit's In It. Seeking a change in direction, CBS Records, the parent label for Epic Records, transferred the singer's contract to Philadelphia International Records, co-founded by the singer's hometown friends, Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff. While LaBelle was regarded as an exciting live performer, none of the nine singles LaBelle released as a solo artist hit the top of either the pop or R&B chart, and her four albums with Epic were only marginally successful. While respected for her longevity in the music business, LaBelle's recordings were not easily marketable as producers struggled to find a hit for the singer. While LaBelle had enjoyed critical success with her self-titled solo album and four subsequent albums following that on Epic Records, none of the records translated to commercial success, as had been a problem during her long tenure with Labelle, who only had one major hit, " Lady Marmalade", in 1975. Kazu Makino).m4aĠ3 Le Moribond | My Family’s Role In The World Revolution.By 1982, Patti LaBelle had a 20-year career in music, experiencing minor and major success, first with her longtime group, Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles (later known as Labelle), and then briefly with her solo career.
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