Barbra Streisand - "We're Not Making Love Anymore"

[Hervard]

Prenatt's Top Ten list in the "If You Asked Me To" thread inspired this topic. On that list, that song was racing up to number three (BTW, prenatt, what number did that peak at?)
This song (was it written by Diane Warren, too?) seemed to have a fast rise, fast fall on the R&R A/C chart, but the station I listened to in the fall of 1989 played this song all the time. It, as well as the Patti LaBelle song, both take me back to that time, which was my senior year in high school.
What are your thoughts on this song, which was also covered by Michael Bolton and Patti LaBelle?

[George Tropicana]

Kathie Lee copies her with "We Don't Make Love Anymore"! :o

[prenatt1166]

(BTW, prenatt, what number did that peak at?)

UU-BRU Internet Radio
[red]For Week Ending October 21, 1989[/red]

(Rank This Week, Last Week, Artist, Title)

01 02 Barbra Streisand - We're Not Making Love Anymore
02 03 Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire
03 01 Patti LaBelle - If You Asked Me To
04 04 Janet Jackson - Miss You Much
05 06 Young MC - Bust A Move
06 07 Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time
07 10 Bad English - When I See You Smile
08 09 Aerosmith - Love In An Elevator
09 08 Rolling Stones - Mixed Emotions
10 11 New Kids On The Block - Cover Girl

WNMLA spent a single week at #1, ranking at #21 for 1989.
www.keystonehighways.com/uubru1989.html

I believe the song was co-written by Diane Warren and Michael Bolton. I was glad to see it on Bolton's "Time, Love And Tenderness" LP in 1991, but was dissappointed that it was never released as a single.

I wondered at the time why Bolton hadn't recorded it with Streisand to begin with. They were both on Columbia at the time. I like both versions equally.

A side note: Diane Warren was hot in 1989, the following chart week she would have 5 songs in the Top 10 and would do so again in the summer of 1990.

:)

[Hervard]

Which Diane Warren song would join the existing four the next week?

(I believe they were:
We're Not Making Love Anymore
If You Asked Me To
If I Could Turn Back Time
When I See You Smile)

Was it "Blame It On The Rain", by any chance?

[mst3k]

prenatt1166 said:

I wondered at the time why Bolton hadn't recorded it with Streisand to begin with.  They were both on Columbia at the time. 

Or some DJ could've stuck the two versions together, ala "You Don't Bring Me Flowers". :)

[strong4PMB!]

Mineable1004 said:

Kathie Lee copies her with "We Don't Make Love Anymore"! :o

That's what I was thinking.

[prenatt1166]

Which Diane Warren song would join the existing four the next week?

(I believe they were:
We're Not Making Love Anymore
If You Asked Me To
If I Could Turn Back Time
When I See You Smile)

Was it "Blame It On The Rain", by any chance?

yes indeed!!

UU-BRU Internet Radio
[red]For Week Ending October 28, 1989[/red]

(Rank This Week, Last Week, Artist, Title)

01  02  Billy Joel -  We Didn't Start The Fire
[blue]02  01  Barbra Streisand -  We're Not Making Love Anymore
03  03  Patti LaBelle -  If You Asked Me To
04  07  Bad English -  When I See You Smile
05  12  Milli Vanilli -  Blame It On The Rain[/blue]
06  04  Janet Jackson -  Miss You Much
07  05  Young MC -  Bust A Move
08  08  Aerosmith -  Love In An Elevator
[blue]09  06  Cher -  If I Could Turn Back Time[/blue]
10  11  New Kids On The Block - Didn't I Blow Your Mind

Diane Warren was also at #27 with "Just Like Jesse James" by Cher.

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For good measure, here is the chart that Diane Warren wrote or co-wrote 7 of the Top 15 songs in a single week.

UU-BRU Internet Radio
[red]For Week Ending June 23, 1990[/red]

(Rank This Week, Last Week, Artist, Title)

01  01  Roxette -  It Must Have Been Love
[blue]02  02  Taylor Dayne -  I'll Be Your Shelter[/blue]
03  06  Glenn Mederios & Bobby Brown -  She Ain't Worth It
[blue]04  04  Michael McDonald -  Take It To Heart[/blue]
05  11  Madonna -  Hanky Panky
06  07  Go West -  King Of Wishful Thinking
07  03  Phil Collins -  Do You Remember
[blue]08  10  Michael Bolton -  When I'm Back On My Feet Again
09  05  Expose -  Your Baby Never Looked Good In Blue
10  09  Michael Bolton -  How Can We Be Lovers
11  18  Heart -  I Didn't Want To Need You[/blue]
12  15  Billy Idol -  Cradle Of Love
13  13  MC Hammer -  U Can't Touch This
14  14  New Kids On The Block -  Step By Step
[blue]15  16  Joe Cocker -  What Are You Doing With A Fool Like Me[/blue]

:)

[reception]

I like it.

[areyoureadytojump]

The video:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3i-9Oeahdg

Did not chart on the Hot 100.

[benmcd2000]

Oh i miss the days when Diane Warren pretty much owned pop radio!

[tico]

I don't remember this.

[rfucom]

Aug 27, 2009 7:56:04 GMT -5 benmcd2000 said:

Oh i miss the days when Diane Warren pretty much owned pop radio!

i'll assume your age is 40+

[Hervard]

Ben, I miss those days too (and my age isn't even 40+)

[tico]

Was anybody more dominating than Diane Warren in the late 80s?

[esoteric76]

Aug 28, 2009 15:30:44 GMT -5 Hervard said:

Ben, I miss those days too (and my age isn't even 40+)

Ditto! At this point, I'll take any Diane I can get. I'm always on the lookout to see what new tracks she's got out there, even if they're not radio singles. Love her.
Love this song as well, although I much prefer Bolton/LaBelle's histrionic interpretation of it.

[Deleted]

Peaked at #10 AC in late 1989.

One of the last singles she put out that I enjoyed (that turn of the 90's Bolton/Warren/Walden/Afanasieff gets me for sentimental reasons). It sounds like it was always meant to be a duet though (it was later covered by Michael Bolton and Patti LaBelle as a duet, and Michael also did a live duet with pre-fame Mariah Carey in early 1990, which just leaked this week), so Barbra's version sounds incomplete to me. I think it would have been a bigger hit if originally recorded as a duet with Michael Bolton.