If Only You Knew

"If Only You Knew"
Single by Patti LaBelle
from the album I'm in Love Again
B-side"I'll Never, Never Give Up"
ReleasedOctober 28, 1983
RecordedJuly 28, 1982
StudioSigma Sound, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
GenreR&B[1]
Length3:47 (single edit)
4:48 (album version)
LabelPhiladelphia International
PI 04248
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Patti LaBelle singles chronology
"I'll Never, Never Give Up"
(1983)
"If Only You Knew"
(1983)
"Love Has Finally Come at Last"
(1984)

"If Only You Knew" is a single written and produced primarily by Dexter Wansel and Cynthia Biggs for American singer Patti LaBelle's sixth solo album, I'm in Love Again. It was released as the album's official first single in 1983, spending four weeks at #1 on the U.S. R&B chart during January and February 1984; it reached #46 on the Billboard Hot 100.[2]

  1. ^ Matos, Michaelangelo (8 December 2020). "New Music Seminar, New York City: August 6-8, 1984". Can't Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop's Blockbuster Year. Hachette Books. p. 209. ISBN 978-0-306-90337-3.
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 337.