If Ever You're in My Arms Again

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"If Ever You're in My Arms Again"
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Single by Peabo Bryson
from the album Straight from the Heart
B-side "There's No Getting Over You"
ReleasedApril 1984
Genre R&B
Length4:12 (album version)
4:02 (single version)
Label Elektra
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Michael Masser
Peabo Bryson singles chronology
"I Just Came Here to Dance (with Roberta Flack)"
(1984)
"If Ever You're in My Arms Again"
(1984)
"Slow Dancin'"
(1984)

"If Ever You're in My Arms Again" is a 1984 song recorded by American contemporary R&B singer Peabo Bryson. Released as a single from his album Straight from the Heart , the single peaked at number 6 on the R&B chart and was Bryson's first Top 10 single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it peaked at number 10 during the summer of 1984. [1] It also spent four weeks at number 1 on the adult contemporary chart. [2]

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Personnel

Charts

The song was used as a love theme for the Kelly Capwell and Joe Perkins characters on the daytime serial Santa Barbara. [12] [13]

Cover version

This song became a cover version of Toni Gonzaga and Sam Milby in their 2008 movie My Big Love as a soundtrack.

See also

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