You Could Have Been with Me is Sheena Easton

Sheena Easton

Sheena Easton is a Scottish recording artist. Easton became famous for being the focus of an episode in the British television programme The Big Time, which recorded her attempts to gain a record contract and her eventual signing with EMI Records.Easton rose to fame in the early 1980s with the pop...

's second album, released in 1981 on EMI

EMI

The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...

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Background

Released in late 1981, the album peaked at #47 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums, spending a whole year on the chart, eventually certified Gold by the RIAA, and also peaked at UK #33 (certified Silver). The biggest hit from the album was "You Could Have Been with Me

You Could Have Been with Me (song)

"You Could Have Been with Me" is a 1981 single by Sheena Easton from her album of the same name. The single reached number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100, while its Adult Contemporary peak was number 6....

" (US #15, UK #54). In the UK, the lead single, "Just Another Broken Heart" peaked at #33, while a third single "A Little Tenderness" failed to chart in early 1982. In the US, a track from her first album was included; "When He Shines", which was released as a single and peaked at #30.

You Could Have Been With Me became a Top Ten album in Japan, the use of the track "A Little Tenderness" in a television advertising campaign for Noevir Cosmetics boosting the album to a #3 peak, and also Sweden (#2) and Norway (#7).

A CD reissue in 2000 added the track "For Your Eyes Only" (US #4, UK #8), one of Easton's most successful chart singles.

UK Track listing

Side One

1. "A Little Tenderness" (Peter Vale)
2. "You Could Have Been with Me
   You Could Have Been with Me (song)
   "You Could Have Been with Me" is a 1981 single by Sheena Easton from her album of the same name. The single reached number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100, while its Adult Contemporary peak was number 6....
   
   " (Lea Maalfrid)
3. "Just Another Broken Heart" (Peter Vale)
4. "I'm Not Worth the Hurt" (Deborah Allen
   Deborah Allen
   Deborah Allen is an American country music singer. Since 1976, Allen has issued 12 albums and charted 14 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, most notably the 1983 crossover hit "Baby I Lied" which reached #4 on the country charts and #26 on the Billboard Hot 100. Allen has also...
   
   , Eddie Struzick, Rafe Van Hoy)
5. "(He's Got) Savoir Faire" (Phil Palmer
   Phil Palmer
   Philip 'Phil' John Palmer is a sideman and session guitarist in jazz and rock who has toured, recorded, and worked with numerous famous artists...
   
   , Peter Vale)

Side Two

1. "A Letter from Joey" (Dominic Bugatti)
2. "Telephone Lines" (Chris Christian, Stephen Kipner)
3. "Johnny" (Donovan McKitty)
4. "Trouble in The Shadows" (Lea Maalfrid)
5. "Isn't it So" (K. Floyd)

US Track listing

Side One

1. "A Little Tenderness"
2. "You Could Have Been with Me"
3. "Just Another Broken Heart"
4. "I'm Not Worth the Hurt"
5. "(He's Got) Savoir Faire"

Side Two

1. "A Letter from Joey"
2. "Telephone Lines"
3. "Johnny"
4. "Trouble in The Shadows"
5. "When He Shines" (Dominic Bugatti, Freddie Palmer)

CD Bonus tracks:

1. "Isn't It So"
2. "For Your Eyes Only" (Bill Conti
   Bill Conti
   William "Bill" Conti is an American film music composer who is frequently the conductor at the Academy Awards ceremony.-Early life and career:...
   
   , Michael Leeson)
3. "No-one Ever Knows" (Peter Vale)

Personnel

• Sheena Easton - vocals
• Phil Palmer
  Phil Palmer
  Philip 'Phil' John Palmer is a sideman and session guitarist in jazz and rock who has toured, recorded, and worked with numerous famous artists...
  
   - guitar
• Andy Brown - bass
• Ian Lynn - keyboards, synthesizers
• Peter Van Hooke
  Peter Van Hooke
  Peter Van Hooke was drummer in the English band Mike + The Mechanics as well as having drummed for Cliff Richard, Van Morrison's band, Headstone, and Ezio. During the 1980s he successfully co-produced many of Tanita Tikaram's hits.Van Hooke grew up in Stanmore, Middlesex and attended Mill Hill...
  
   - drums
• Frank Ricotti
  Frank Ricotti
  Frank Ricotti is an English jazz vibraphonist and percussionist.Ricotti played in the National Youth Jazz Orchestra while a teenager, then attended Trinity College of Music...
  
   - percussion
• Alan Carvell, Christopher Neil
  Christopher Neil
  Christopher Neil is a British record producer, songwriter, singer and actor.He has worked with Celine Dion, a-ha, Dollar, Paul Nicholas, Kim Criswell, Morten Harket, Mike + The Mechanics, Johnny Logan, Marillion, The Moody Blues, The Other Ones, Paul Carrack, Rod Stewart, Gerry Rafferty, Cher,...
  
  , Tony Rivers - background vocals