| "Can't We Try" | ||||
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| Single by Dan Hill and Vonda Shepard | ||||
| from the album Dan Hill | ||||
| B-side | "Pleasure Centre" | |||
| Released | June 1987 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 4:02 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Beverly Chapin Hill, Dan Hill | |||
| Producer(s) | Hank Medress, John Capek | |||
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"Can't We Try" is a 1987 duet performed by Dan Hill and Vonda Shepard. The ballad was Billboard's No. 1 Adult Contemporary Song of the Year for 1987.
"Can't We Try" was released as a single from Dan Hill's 1987 self-titled album. The song reached No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and also on Cash Box,[1] making it Dan Hill's second-biggest hit behind "Sometimes When We Touch", which hit No. 3 back in 1978, and was Vonda Shepard's only Top 10 Pop hit.
It also reached No. 2 for three weeks on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart (behind "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" by Whitney Houston and "Moonlighting" by Al Jarreau). In Canada, the song reached No. 14.