Now We're Starting Over Again

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"Now We're Starting Over Again"
Starting Over Again - Dionne Warwick.jpg
Single by Dionne Warwick
from the album Hot! Live and Otherwise
B-side "Hit Record Medley (Anyone Who Had a Heart, The Look of Love, Make It Easy on Yourself)"
ReleasedAugust 1981 [1]
Recorded1981
Genre
Length3:08
Label Arista
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Michael Masser
"Starting Over Again"
Starting Over Again - Natalie Cole.jpg
Single by Natalie Cole
from the album Good to Be Back
B-side "I Do" (duet with Freddie Jackson)
Released1989
Genre
Length4:13
Label EMI
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Michael Masser
  • Gerry Goffin
Natalie Cole singles chronology
"As a Matter of Fact"
(1989)
"Starting Over Again"
(1989)
"Wild Women Do"
(1990)

"Now We're Starting Over Again" is a ballad composed by Michael Masser and lyricist Gerry Goffin and first recorded by Dionne Warwick in 1981. The song was most successful as a 1989 single release by Natalie Cole.

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Background

"Now We're Starting Over Again" was one of five studio recordings by Dionne Warwick to augment the concert tracks on her 1981 album Hot! Live and Otherwise : three of these studio tracks were produced and co-written by Michael Masser being – besides "Now We're Starting Over Again" – "There's a Long Road Ahead of Us" (also co-written with Gerry Goffin) and "Some Changes Are for Good" (co-written with Carole Bayer Sager), with the latter two tracks being chosen for single release in the US. Also, "Now We're Starting Over Again" was afforded a single release in some countries though without becoming a major hit, with its only evident chart showing being in the UK where it peaked at No. 76. [1]

Charts

Chart (1981)Peak
position
UK Singles Chart [1]
76

Natalie Cole version

Natalie Cole's version of "Now We're Starting Over Again" (simply titled as "Starting Over Again") was released in late 1989 in the UK and early 1990 in the U.S., being the fifth of five singles released from her 1989 album Good to Be Back , the first of which, "Miss You Like Crazy" (#7 on the Hot 100 / #1 R&B), also a Michael Masser production and co-write, becoming Cole's second major hit produced by Masser and written by Masser and Gerry Goffin, with the first being "Someone That I Used to Love" in 1980 (#21 Hot 100 / #21 R&B). "Starting Over Again" did not afford Cole a Hot 100 or R&B hit but did chart on Billboard magazine's Adult Contemporary chart at number five, while also reaching number 12 on the Canadian Adult Contemporary chart. "Starting Over Again" was also a minor hit in the UK (#56). [2] The B-side of the single was Cole's duet with Freddie Jackson entitled "I Do" which in a previous release had been a top ten R&B chart hit.

Charts

Chart (1989-90)Peak
position
Canada Adult Contemporary (RPM) [3] 12
US Adult Contemporary ( Billboard ) [4] 5
UK Singles Chart [5]
56

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