If You Were with Me Now

"If You Were with Me Now" is a song written by British songwriting team Stock and Waterman, Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue and American R&B singer Keith Washington for Minogue's fourth studio album Let's Get to It (1991). The song was produced by Stock and Waterman.

"If You Were with Me Now"
Single by Kylie Minogue and Keith Washington
from the album Let's Get to It
B-side"I Guess I Like It Like That"
Released21 October 1991
RecordedLondon, England
Genre
Length3:11
LabelPWL
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Stock
  • Waterman
Kylie Minogue singles chronology
"Word Is Out"
(1991)		 "If You Were with Me Now"
(1991)		 "Keep on Pumpin' It"
(1991)
Keith Washington singles chronology
"Are You Still in Love with Me"
(1991)		 "If You Were with Me Now"
(1991)		 "Make Time for Love"
(1992)
Music video
"If You Were with Me Now" on YouTube

It was released as the second single in the autumn of 1991 due to a favourable reaction from radio stations and reached number four in the UK and the top ten in Ireland and South Africa as well as the top thirty in Australia. The song is Minogue's first hit single to feature her as a co-writer.

Both Minogue and Washington recorded their vocals at separate times at Stock Aitken and Waterman's studio in London. Subsequently, the two had not met until the music video filming. Curiously, at no moment of the video do they appear together, and there are no obvious signs that the scenes of each of them were recorded at the same location.

Critical reception

Digital Spy's Nick Levine called the track a "slushy duet".[1] Writing Minogue's biography for her special on Australian music video programme Rage, they called the song one of the "richly beautiful ballads".[2]

Formats and track listings

UK / Australian CD single

  1. "If You Were with Me Now" – 3:10
  2. "I Guess I Like It like That" – 5:59
  3. "If You Were with Me Now" (extended version) – 5:06

UK / Australian cassette single

  1. "If You Were with Me Now" – 3:10
  2. "I Guess I Like It Like That" – 3:30

UK 7" vinyl single

  1. "If You Were with Me Now" – 3:10
  2. "I Guess I Like It Like That" – 3:30

UK 12" vinyl single

  1. "If You Were with Me Now" – 5:06
  2. "I Guess I Like It Like That" – 5:59

Charts

References
  1. Nick Levine (22 May 2010). "Music The Sound - Kylie: Revisited #4: 'Let's Get To It". Digital Spy. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  2. Staff writer(s) (3 August 2002). "Kylie Minogue Special". Rage. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
  3. "Australian-charts.com – Kylie Minogue & Keith Washington – If You Were with Me Now". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  4. "Ultratop.be – Kylie Minogue & Keith Washington – If You Were with Me Now" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  5. "Offiziellecharts.de – Kylie Minogue & Keith Washington – If You Were with Me Now". GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  6. "The Irish Charts – Search Results – If You Were with Me Now". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  7. "Dutchcharts.nl – Kylie Minogue & Keith Washington – If You Were with Me Now" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  8. "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  9. "1991 Top 100 Singles". Music Week. London, England: Spotlight Publications. 11 January 1992. p. 20.
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