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"When We Make Love"
Single by Alabama
from the album Roll On
B-side"Carolina Mountain Dewe"
ReleasedApril 1984
Recorded1983
Genre Country, soft rock
Length3:36
Label RCA 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. [1]

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1984) Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard) [2] 1
US Billboard Hot 100 [3] 72
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks [4] 8
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 1
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks 3

Year-end charts

Chart (1984) Position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard) [5] 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))