If I Had You (Alabama song)

"If I Had You" is a song written by Kerry Chater and Danny Mayo, and recorded by American country music group Alabama. It was released in February 1989 as the second single from the album Southern Star. "If I Had You" was Alabama's twenty-fifth number one on the country chart. The single went number one for one week and spent thirteen weeks on the country chart.^[1]

The song was covered by Andy Williams on his 1991 album Nashville and Eddy Arnold on his 1993 album Last of the Love Song Singers: Then and Now.

Chart performance

Chart (1989)	Peak position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)^[2]	1
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[3]	1

Year-end charts

Chart (1989)	Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)^[4]	47
US Country Songs (Billboard)^[5]	42

References

↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 19.
↑ "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 6358." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. May 29, 1989. Retrieved August 28, 2013.
↑ "Alabama Album & Song Chart History" Billboard Hot Country Songs for Alabama.
↑ "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1989". RPM. December 23, 1989. Retrieved August 28, 2013.
↑ "Best of 1989: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 1989. Retrieved August 28, 2013.

Preceded by "Is It Still Over?" by Randy Travis	Billboard Hot Country Singles number-one single May 20, 1989	Succeeded by "After All This Time" by Rodney Crowell
	RPM Country Tracks number-one single May 29, 1989

External links

Full lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Eddy Arnold

Studio albums	I Want to Go with You The Everlovin' World of Eddy Arnold So Many Ways/If the Whole World Stopped Lovin'

Songs	"Anytime" "Bouquet of Roses" "The Cattle Call" "Don't Rob Another Man's Castle" "Easy on the Eyes" "Eddy's Song" "A Heart Full of Love (For a Handful of Kisses)" "I Really Don't Want to Know" "I Walk Alone" "I Wanna Play House With You" "I Want to Go with You" "I'll Hold You in My Heart" "I'll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms)" "I'm Throwing Rice (At the Girl That I Love)" "If I Had You" "It's a Sin" "Just a Little Lovin' (Will Go a Long Way)" "Just Call Me Lonesome" "Kentucky Waltz" "Lonely Again" "Make the World Go Away" "May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You" "Misty Blue" "San Francisco is a Lonely Town" "Somebody Like Me" "Texarkana Baby" "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye" "There's Been a Change in Me" "The Tip of My Fingers" "Trouble in Mind" "Turn the World Around" "What Is Life Without Love" "What's He Doing in My World" "The Wheel of Hurt" "When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again" "You Don't Know Me"

Related articles	Discography The Eddy Arnold Show Eddy Arnold Time

Alabama (band) 1977–1989 singles

Deuces Wild	"I Want to Be with You Tonight"

My Home's in Alabama	"I Wanna Come Over" "My Home's in Alabama" "Tennessee River" "Why Lady Why"

Feels So Right	"Old Flame" "Feels So Right" "Love in the First Degree"

Mountain Music	"Mountain Music" "Take Me Down" "Close Enough to Perfect"

The Closer You Get...	"Dixieland Delight" "The Closer You Get" "Lady Down on Love"

Roll On	"Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)" "When We Make Love" "If You're Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band)" "(There's A) Fire in the Night"

40-Hour Week	"There's No Way" "40 Hour Week (For a Livin')" "Can't Keep a Good Man Down"

Greatest Hits	"She and I"

The Touch	"Touch Me When We're Dancing" ""You've Got" the Touch"

Just Us	"Tar Top" "Face to Face" "Fallin' Again"

Southern Star	"Song of the South" "If I Had You" "High Cotton" "Southern Star"

Other singles	"Christmas in Dixie" "Deep River Woman" (with Lionel Richie)