Patti LaBelle – On My Own ft. Michael McDonald

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On My Own (Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald Song)

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“On My Own”

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Single by Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald
from the album Winner in You
B-side“Stir It Up”
ReleasedFebruary 23, 1986
Recorded1985
GenrePop
Length4:50
LabelMCA
SongwritersBurt Bacharach
Carole Bayer Sager
ProducersBurt Bacharach
Carole Bayer Sager
Patti LaBelle singles chronology
“Stir It Up“
(1985)”On My Own“
(1986)”Oh, People“
(1986)
Michael McDonald singles chronology
“No Lookin’ Back”
(1985)”On My Own“
(1986)”Sweet Freedom“
(1986)
Music video
“On My Own” on YouTube

“On My Own” is a duet by American singers Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald. It was written and produced by Burt Bacharach and his then-wife Carole Bayer Sager and originally recorded by singer Dionne Warwick for inclusion on her album Friends (1985). The song was eventually recorded by LaBelle and McDonald for her eighth studio album, Winner in You (1986). It was released as the album’s lead single on March 22, 1986, by MCA Records. Lyrically, “On My Own” was based on a relationship that had reached its end with both parties going their separate ways in a melancholy state with the occasional option of coming back together again one day.

The two performers were in separate cities when they recorded their individual parts, which were then “married” during mixing. This was reflected in the music video produced to promote the song, which depicted LaBelle and McDonald performing the song simultaneously on different coasts.[2] The singers were shown on separate sides of a split screen, each singing the song while walking through apartments that had identical layouts but different decor and furniture. The views from their respective porches, where they finished the song, made clear their separation by the continent.

Commercial performance

“On My Own” became the most successful single ever for both singers as it reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks. The song also reached the number-one spot on the Hot Black Singles chart (for four weeks) and number two on the Hot Adult Contemporary chart. In the United Kingdom, the song peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart and has been certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), becoming the 22nd best-selling single of 1986 in the country. The song was initially not intended to be a duet at all, but LaBelle decided to invite McDonald to help her turn the song into a duet, as she stated: “The song was sent to me and I did a version of it but somehow it just didn’t quite work. We were going over things I’d done and we talked about turning it into a duet. Someone asked, ‘If you could do it with anyone, who would you sing it with?’, and Michael was my first choice.”

Personnel

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Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1986)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)12
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)20
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)3
Canada Top Singles (RPM)1
Canada Adult Contemporary (RPM)2
Europe (European Hot 100 Singles)16
Ireland (IRMA)1
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)2
Netherlands (Single Top 100)1
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)4
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)15
UK Singles (OCC)2
US Billboard Hot 1001
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)2
US Dance Singles Sales (Billboard)1
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)1
US Top 100 Singles (Cash Box)1
US Black Contemporary Singles (Cash Box)1
West Germany (GfK)18

Year-end charts

Chart (1986)Position
Australia (Kent Music Report)88
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)13
Canada Top Singles (RPM)6
Europe (European Hot 100 Singles)58
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)26
Netherlands (Single Top 100)41
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)24
UK Singles (OCC)22
US Billboard Hot 1004
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)9
US Dance Singles Sales (Billboard)5
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)1
US Top 100 Singles (Cash Box)10
US Black Contemporary Singles (Cash Box)8

All-time charts

Chart (1958–2018)Position
US Billboard Hot 100277

Certifications

RegionCertificationCertified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)Silver250,000^
United States (RIAA)Gold1,000,000^
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Reba McEntire version

“On My Own”

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Single by Reba McEntire Featuring Martina McBride, Linda Davis and Trisha Yearwood
from the album Starting Over
B-side“Read My Mind”
ReleasedSeptember 16, 1995
GenreCountry
Length4:34
LabelMCA Nashville
SongwritersBurt BacharachCarole Bayer Sager
ProducersTony BrownReba McEntire
Reba McEntire Featuring Martina McBride, Linda Davis and Trisha Yearwood singles chronology
“And Still“
(1995)”On My Own“
(1995)”Ring on Her Finger, Time on Her Hands“
(1995)

In September 1995, country entertainer Reba McEntire released a cover version of the song as the first single from her album Starting Over. Her version, featuring guest vocals from Martina McBride, Linda Davis and fellow MCA labelmate Trisha Yearwood, peaked at number 20 on Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, although only McEntire received chart credit for it. Its music video was directed by Dominic Orlando and was filmed on the Chaplin Stage.

The four artists performed the song at the 1995 Country Music Association Awards, and again at the 1996 Academy of Country Music Awards.

Charts

Chart (1995)Peak
position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)22
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)20
Reba McEntire – On My Own ft. Trisha Yearwood, Martina McBride, Linda Davis

“On My Own” may refer to :

Songs

Albums

Other uses

On My Own (Film)

On My Own
Directed byAntonio Tibaldi
Written byAntonio Tibaldi
Gill Dennis
John Frizzell
Produced byEllepi Films
Rosa Colosimo Films
StarringJudy Davis
Matthew Ferguson
CinematographyVic Sarin
Edited byEdward McQueen-Mason
Music byFranco Piersanti
Production
company		Alliance Communications Corporation
Distributed byAlliance Films
Release dates1991 (Italy)
1992 (Spain)
1993 (Australia)
Running time97 minutes
CountriesAustralia
Canada
LanguageEnglish
BudgetCan$ 3,885,000
Box officeA$ 60,000 (Australia)

On My Own is a 1991 film starring Judy Davis and Matthew Ferguson. Ferguson plays Simon Henderson, a student at an Ontario boarding school, whose father lives in Hong Kong, and whose mother (played by Davis) is from England. The plot revolves around Simon coming to terms with the revelation that his mother suffers from schizophrenia.

Production

Some of the film’s location shooting was done in London, England (not London, Ontario), St. Catharines, Ontario, Toronto and Stratford, Ontario. The film is primarily set at an “Ontario boarding school” and the scenes showing the school were filmed at two real-life boarding schools in Ontario, Ridley College (with its distinctive bell tower and entrance gates, called the Marriott Gates) and Upper Canada College (including the interior of the Upper School and the interior of Wedd’s boarding house).

Post-production for the film was done in Australia by the South Australian Film Corporation.

Watch The Movie

On My Own (1991 Australian/ Canadian Movie)

On My Own (Memoir)

On My Own: The Years since the White House

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First US edition (1958)
AuthorEleanor Roosevelt
PublisherHarper & Brothers
Publication date1958
Pages241

On My Own: The Years since the White House[1] is a 1958 memoir by Eleanor Roosevelt, an American political figure, diplomat, activist and First Lady of the United States while her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt, was President of the United States. On My Own was the third of four memoirs written by Roosevelt, the other three being: This Is My Story, This I Remember, and The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt.

Background

Roosevelt in 1933

Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1884, in New York City. A member of the prominent Roosevelt family, she grew up surrounded by material wealth, but had a difficult childhood, suffering the deaths of both of her parents and a brother before she was ten. Roosevelt was sent by relatives to the Allenswood School five years later. While there, Marie Souvestre, the founder of the school, influenced her. She wrote in This is My Story that “Whatever I have become had its seeds in those three years of contact with a liberal mind and strong personality.” When she was eighteen, Roosevelt returned to New York and joined the National Consumers League. She married Franklin D. Roosevelt, her cousin, in 1905. They would have five children.

Eleanor was involved in her husband’s political career as he won a seat in the New York State Senate in 1911 and traveled with him to Washington D.C. when he was made United States Secretary of War in Woodrow Wilson‘s cabinet. She became involved in volunteer work during World War I. In 1918, she discovered that Franklin was having an affair with Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd and resolved to develop her own life. She continued to help her husband in his political career but also began working in various reform movements, including the women’s suffrage movement. As First Lady of the United States following Franklin’s election as President of the United States in 1932, Eleanor “set the standard against which president’s wives have been measured ever since”, working to create opportunities for women, the establishment of the National Youth Administration, and championing civil rights for African-Americans. While Franklin was president she wrote 2,500 newspaper columns, 299 magazine articles, 6 books, and traveled around the country giving speeches.[2]

Eleanor remained politically active after her husband’s death, serving as the first United States Representative to the United Nations and chairing the United Nations Commission on Human Rights when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was drafted. She later chaired John F. Kennedy‘s Presidential Commission on the Status of Women before her death in 1962. The American National Biography concludes that she was “perhaps the most influential American woman of the twentieth century”.

Writing and publication

Eleanor Roosevelt’s two previous memoirs, This I Remember and This Is My Story, had covered her life up to Franklin’s death in 1945. On My Own was published in 1958 and covered Eleanor’s life as an individual after the death of her husband. It was published by Harper & Brothers and the first edition was 241 pages.

Reception

Margaret Coit, writing in The New York Times, said that the book is “most of all, Mrs. Roosevelt, warm, down-to-earth and almost over-whelmingly practical.” She felt that “age has not dulled Mrs. Roosevelt’s shrewd observations of her fellow-men” and concluded the book was “chatty and moving.” Kirkus Reviews wrote that the book had a “random, always personal, and usually buoyant manner.” A reviewer in the Richmond Times-Dispatch called her memoir “unquestionable proof” that “Mrs. Roosevelt is a remarkable figure”. A review in the Kansas City Times concluded that:

for all its hopping, jumping and skipping from people to places to things “On My Own” is still a well done book. The style—somewhat unprofessional and garrulous at times, but always free of a ghostly hand—serves Mrs. Roosevelt’s purposes just fine. It is not a major autobiography by any means. On the other hand, it is the autobiography of a major American.

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