If I Have to Stand Alone
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| Studio album by Lonnie Gordon | ||||
| Released | 8 April 1991 (Australia) | |||
| Recorded | 1989-1990 | |||
| Genre | Dance-pop, house | |||
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Supreme Records Cherry Pop (2009 reissue) |
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If I Have to Stand Alone is the debut album by Hi-NRG and house singer Lonnie Gordon. It was released in 1990 on Supreme Records. It includes Gordon's breakthrough hit "Happenin' All Over Again", which was a top 10 hit in the UK and Ireland. However, the two follow-up singles, "Beyond Your Wildest Dreams" and "If I Have to Stand Alone" did not fare as well. The album was released in parts of continental Europe, Japan and Australia in late 1990 and early 1991, albeit in limited quantity, and was never released in the UK.
Most of the album was produced by British hitmaking team or their associates Phil Harding and Ian Curnow. The album also includes Gordon's debut single for the label, "It's Not Over", which was released in September 1989. The album incorporates Stock Aitken & Waterman's typical Europop sound, but also adding influences of the Italo house scene that was big in the UK charts in late 1989/1990.
Gordon recorded two more tracks which were not included in the album: "How Could He Do This to Me" (produced by Stock, Aitken & Waterman, and originally the planned follow-up to "Happenin' All Over Again"), and "Just a Matter of Time" (produced by Harding & Curnow). The former was later issued in the late '90s on a dance compilation. Both were later released through iTunes in 2009.
In April 2009, UK label Cherry Pop reissued the album, including several bonus tracks, marking the first time for the album to be available worldwide. The reissue includes "How Could He Do This to Me", a track Gordon recorded for the album but was not originally included, as well as several remixes, some of them previously unreleased.
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