Single:
If You Leave Me Now entered the Australian singles chart* on 20 September 1976 and was a #1 hit. The song was #3 on the Top 100 of 1976.
Album:
The song is on Chicago X which entered the Australian albums chart* on 2 August 1976 and peaked at #3.
Songwriter:
Peter Cetera
Producer:
James William Guercio
Record label of Australian release:
CBS
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Songfacts:
Chicago’s bass player Peter Cetera wrote this and sang lead. Cetera specialised in ballads, adding variety to the band’s sound which featured many more rock-oriented songs, often written by Terry Kath or Robert Lamm.
Cetera’s ballads quickly became the band’s biggest hits, with If You Leave Me Now their most successful song to that point.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/chicago/if-you-leave-me-now
Lyrics:
If you leave me now
You′ll take away the biggest part of me
Ooh-ooh-hoo, no
Baby, please don’t go
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