What If I Said

"What If I Said"
Single by Anita Cochran with Steve Wariner
from the album Back to You
B-side"Daddy Can You See Me"[1]
ReleasedNovember 3, 1997
GenreCountry
Length4:52 (album version)
LabelWarner Bros. Nashville
Songwriter(s)Anita Cochran
Producer(s)
Anita Cochran singles chronology
"Daddy Can You See Me"
(1997) 		"What If I Said"
(1997) 		"Will You Be Here"
(1998)
Steve Wariner singles chronology
"Get Back"
(1995) 		"What If I Said"
(1997) 		"Holes in the Floor of Heaven"
(1998)

"What If I Said" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Anita Cochran as a duet with Steve Wariner. The single was released in November 1997 as was Cochran's only No. 1 single on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, as well as her only Top 40 single on that chart.[1] In addition, the song was Wariner's first chart entry in three years, as well as his first No. 1 since 1989's "I Got Dreams."[2] The song was nominated by the Country Music Association for Vocal Duet of the Year in 1998.[3]

"What If I Said" can be found on Cochran's 1997 album Back to You, as well as Wariner's 1998 album Burnin' the Roadhouse Down.

  1. ^ a b Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
  2. ^ Whitburn, p. 448
  3. ^ Mayor, Alan (18 November 2014). The Nashville Family Album: A Country Music Scrapbook. Macmillan. p. 141. ISBN 9781466885677.