Alone With You (Texas song)
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"Alone With You" was the third and last single to be lifted from Scottish
band Texas
' Mothers Heaven
album. It fared better than the previous five singles and returned the band to the UK Singles Chart
top 40, reaching #32. This was the first time since their debut single "I Don't Want a Lover" in 1989 and may well have been helped by the fact that the main CD single contained both "I Don't Want a Lover" and two previous singles.
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
band Texas
Texas (band)
Texas are a Scottish pop band from Bearsden, near Glasgow, Scotland. They were founded by Johnny McElhone in 1986 and feature Sharleen Spiteri on lead vocals. Texas made their performing debut in March 1988 at Scotland's University of Dundee...
' Mothers Heaven
Mothers Heaven
Mothers Heaven is the second album from the Scottish pop band Texas. The album was released on 8 October 1991 by Mercury Records and was the follow on to debut album, Southside...
album. It fared better than the previous five singles and returned the band to the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
top 40, reaching #32. This was the first time since their debut single "I Don't Want a Lover" in 1989 and may well have been helped by the fact that the main CD single contained both "I Don't Want a Lover" and two previous singles.
7" vinyl (TEX 7 / 866 412-7)
- "Alone With You" - 4:44
- "Down in Battlefield"
- "Down in Battlefield" has to date not been issued on CD.
CD1 (TEXCD 7 / 866 413-2)
- "Alone With You" - 4:44
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" - 4:36 - "I Don't Want a LoverI Don't Want A LoverI Don't Want a Lover is the debut single from Texas's first album Southside. It was released in January 1989 and peaked at #8 in the UK Singles Chart. It was remixed in 2001 by Stargate and DJ Stonebridge to promote The Greatest Hits compilation album...
" - 5:02
CD2 (TEXCB 7 / 866 461-2)
- "Alone With You" - 4:44
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- "Can't Get Next to You" and "What Goes On" were recorded live at Antoines, Austin, TexasTexasTexas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
on 23 November 1991. "Sweet Child o' Mine" was recorded live at Wembley StadiumWembley StadiumThe original Wembley Stadium, officially known as the Empire Stadium, was a football stadium in Wembley, a suburb of north-west London, standing on the site now occupied by the new Wembley Stadium that opened in 2007...
on 26 August 1989. - The CD label misprints "What Goes On" as What Goe's On and misspells Barrett Strong as Barrat Strong.
- The digipakDigipakDigipak is a patented style of CD, DVD or BD packaging, and is a registered trademark of AGI World Ltd., an Atlas Holdings company.-Features:...
fold-out sleeve contains pictures of the band taken on their 1991 US tour.
Charts
Chart (1991) | Peak position |
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UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
32 |
French SNEP Singles Chart | 28 |