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When We Make Love (Alabama song)

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1984 single by Alabama
"When We Make Love"
Single by Alabama
from the album Roll On
B-side"Carolina Mountain Dewe"
ReleasedApril 1984
Recorded1983
GenreCountry, soft rock
Length3:36
LabelRCA Nashville
Songwriter(s)Troy Seals, Mentor Williams
Producer(s)Harold Shedd and Alabama
Alabama singles chronology
"Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)"
(1983)
"When We Make Love"
(1984)
"If You're Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band)"
(1984)

"When We Make Love" is a song written by Troy Seals and Mentor Williams, and recorded by American country music band Alabama. The song — a love ballad — was released in April 1984 as the second single from the band's album Roll On, and was the group's 13th straight No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart that June.

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1984) Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard) 1
US Billboard Hot 100 72
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks 8
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 1
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks 3

Year-end charts

Chart (1984) Position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard) 38

References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 19.
  2. "Alabama Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  3. "Alabama Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
  4. Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 17.
  5. "Hot Country Songs – Year-End 1984". Billboard. Retrieved June 13, 2021.

Further reading

  • Morris, Edward, "Alabama," Contemporary Books Inc., Chicago, 1985 (ISBN 0809253062)
  • Roland, Tom, "The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits" (Billboard Books, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1991 (ISBN 0-82-307553-2))
Alabama 1977–1989 singles
My Home's in Alabama
Feels So Right
Mountain Music
The Closer You Get...
Roll On
40-Hour Week
Greatest Hits
The Touch
Just Us
Southern Star
Other singles


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