On My Own (song)

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"On My Own"
"On My Own" cover
Single by Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald
from the album Winner in You
Released March 22, 1986
Format Maxi single, CD
Genre R&B, Soul, Pop
Length 4:50
Label MCA
Producer Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager
Certification Gold (RIAA)
Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald singles chronology
LaBelle:

"Stir It Up"
(1985)
McDonald:
"No Lookin' Back"
(1985)
"On My Own"
(1986)		 LaBelle:

"Oh, People"
(1986)
McDonald:
"Sweet Freedom"
(1986)

"On My Own" was a hit duet by singers Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald when it was released as a single in 1986. It was released from LaBelle's first platinum album, Winner in You and was written and produced by Burt Bacharach and his former wife Carole Bayer Sager. The song was based on a relationship that had reached its end with both parties going their separate ways in a melancholy state with the occasional option of coming back together again one day.

In 1995, country music singers Reba McEntire, Martina McBride, Linda Davis, and Trisha Yearwood covered this song, and it appeared on McEntire's 1995 album Starting Over. It was often stated the the two performers were in separate cities when they recorded their individual parts which were then "married" during mastering.

The song became the biggest single ever for both singers, both of whom were members of respective funk/R&B groups in the 1970s: LaBelle and The Doobie Brothers - as it hit number one on the Billboard magazine pop, for 3 weeks. R&B and adult contemporary charts as well as number two in the UK singles chart, going gold. The song was intended to be a duet between Dionne Warwick and Michael McDonald.

Preceded by
"Live to Tell" by Madonna		 Billboard Hot 100 number one single
June 14, 1986- June 28, 1986		 Succeeded by
"There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)" by Billy Ocean
Preceded by
"I Have Learned to Respect the Power of Love" by Stephanie Mills		 Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks number-one single
May 17, 1986		 Succeeded by
"Nasty" by Janet Jackson

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