Alexander O'Neal - If You Were Here Tonight
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- Опубліковано 6 січ 2015
- Released in 1985, If You Were Here Tonight was featured on Alexander O’Neal’s self-titled album, Alexander O’Neal, along with two other R&B hits, Innocent and Missing. Reaching No. 13 in UK Singles Chart, the song was O’Neal’s first successful hit in the UK in March 1986 after it peaked at No. 81 in August 1985. Known for its non-rhyming lyrics, the song also reached No. 17 in the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
Who’s playing this classic in 2022 & 2024? (Still here) 😊🌹🥂
I am. Anderson, Sc
Me.. to our young dayz
Me!!! That's who!!🥰🥰🥰💪😎😀♥️♥️🙋🙋
🙋🏽♀️Me!
Me
Who's here in 2024? ❤
Like I ain't never left.
This song defines a big part of my life, serving in Germany. Sang it to my girl over the phone.
I'd go back to those days in a minute.
Meeee
Like the quiet bookworm in the corner in Homeroom ... I'm here
I Love it in 2024 - soooo smoth❤
Black people are gifted.....If we can just start appreciating one another and rebuild our nation.
Dude shut up and stop seeing race in everything you racist
Equally
Totally agree
Enough
we are equal my brother.
I’m only 27 but I got a old soul !!! Even since a kid … it’s something bout these throwbacks that touch my soul 🔥🔥🔥🔥 good music is timeless
Absolutely agree with you ✨🙏🏾😍
Totally feel the same way as you ❤️🎶
hey old soul.
They don’t make music like this anymore
You have great taste
These type of music will never die.
Never ever
Forever!
It gets better through time.
Never ever
Sad thing is we only can go back with this type ..nobody is making it anymore so its in a way dead... I love this type of music.
59 years “young” and this was our wedding song in 1985, still married today , 4 grandchildren, music like this was meant to last back then, we will be celebrating another anniversary soon😁👍✌🏼🎉🎂🍺
God bless my brother 🙏
Happy anniversary to you and your wife 🙂
Awww I love tht for u🎉♥️thts so beautiful and worth being celebrated. I am going to get married to this song too♾️I am speaking it into existence🥰🙏🏾🌸
✊✊💪💪🦅🦅
Happy anniversary!
Almost 2024 and this song is the only one that can still touch that nerve. Sad for our young people, they'll never know the beauty of courtship, no phones, no computers.
im 15 and without internet i wouldnt even get to enjoy the beauty of this masterpiece so
I'm 36 young age but a old soul. I love this type of songs since I was younger as little girl.❤
@@amoretevree1149 yes my mom is around your age and showed me this song from her childhood and i love the 80s synth wave rnb style stuff
The feeling of getting a number from a guy on a piece of paper, or tying up the landline phone telling each other “you hang up 1st” 😂🥹😔❤️
@beautyinthedark7406 man, I remember those days…even falling asleep on the phone. I was born in 81 and this music has always been my first love ❤
Anyone in 2024 here ❤
One of my favs♥️
❤
This was it man!
❤
@@baileytoy1 😊
Can we just collectively decide to go back to these types of songs & instrumentals? 😭
😢
Straight up, I miss the days when artists had to actually be able to sing and not sell sex
Im down for it? What are some more songs like this one?
@@J-God_1999 Bobby caldwell 🤗
Thank you!@@angelac.2384
I'm 56 yrs old and I have one thing to say about our 1980's. "You never know what you had until it's gone forever."
80s simple times with great music! Gen Xers know what’s good.
So very true!! Still grieving heavily about the ending of the '80's! Believe me!! 💘 🎶 Greatest time in history!
@davidwright4495 -I'm the same age as you...and I Completely agree with you! 💯% ❣
❤❤❤
True 💯✔️
Who's playing this classic in 2024?🔥
Me! Almost every night
VIBING OUT BEFORE I GO TO BED
2:00 AM in the morning loves song ,💖
Loves this song ❤️
❤❤
They did Alex dirty on this video. This song deserved a video with 4x the budget.
A lot of the 80's videos were like this somebody just said that same thing about Dennis Edwards' don't look any further clip.
😂😂😂......hilarious! I was caught up in his voice until this comment and really looked at video. It is extremely corny the way he is looking😂😂😂. But most of the 80s videos were like this for R&B. He just looks a little off in this.....but he can sing!
Almost every 80s music video was super-corny and low budget-looking! And we COULD NOT WAIT for them to come on!😂🎉😂
They don't sing like this no more...
They dont have it in em no mo. Trust me.
So true he will forever be a classic
They can’t
Nor is that “sound” around anymore...so smooth!!!! Jam & Lewis 😎😎was the TRUTH!!!!
I miss love songs like this 💗💞
2023, 2024 (and counting )and it still hits like it's full of magic. Sad, don't think music will ever mesmerize like this again.
The likes give me joy on repeat to visit and relisten.
❤❤❤❤❤
This song is amazing
Agreed.
Agree!!
Well said.....it was a magical time for music
"This bed's to big.. All for me to be in alone" Alex delivery of this line is absolute perfection. One of the greatest ballads of all time 🙌🏽
Yessss so romantic...
Who’s here in 2024? Classic gem right here.
July 2024
July 2024 to be specific
This never gets old. This man was so underrated. I love his soulful voice
💯Truth Sista. I miss these days.
@@timothyb3121 Yessss, I wish we could bring these days back again. They just don’t make music like this anymore.
Alexander this music never get old love it
Agreed! Timeless music
Truly he was
This is the perfect song to go for drive on the freeway with the windows open or the sunroof open,playing really loud. I will definitely always remember this song.
Facts!!!!!
Im with you 100%,I will do the same thing.
Yessssss and at night
Reply Ursula Brownman from Denise f i e l v s hi and good morning I have received your comment on Alexander O'Neal if you were here with me tonight and I really love what you had to say nice romantic comment. Well I like to thank you for being a listener to the station and anytime you'd like to comment please feel free to do so and I will be more than happy to get back with you just like I'm doing so now so thank you and please take care. 🎶🎶❣️👍🎉🎉🎉🐈💅🌴💯💦🌈🔥🏠
@@SB-qb7vg phone Denise f i e l d s hi I received your comment and I see that you came in under Alexander O'Neal song title if you were with me tonight very beautiful time and I'm glad that you enjoyed as well. In your comment you said yes yes it would have to be at night lol smile 😁 okay this is your fantasy. I would like to thank you so very much for being a listener and whenever you feel like come and then please do and I will get back with you and I thank you so much take care. 😁🏠🔥🌈💦💯🌴💅🐈👍🎵🥀🥀🥀🥀
HERE IN 2024!!! THIS SONG IS TIMELESS!!! I DONT CARE WHERE I AM IN THE WORLD!! THIS SONG GONE MAKE ME SWAY! 🤎🫶🏾🥰🥰🥰🥰 THANK YOU ALEXANDER FOR GIVING US A TIMELESS PIECE
💪🏿
girl you know how much i care.
Yessss so Beautiful ❤.
This should have won a Grammy
Today's music has no remembrance, no character, no SOUL. Why this music stopped, i have no idea. Takes me back to happier days.
Couldn't have said it better myself!!💯
People won't appreciate this type of music
Same this is so beautiful
Agree..
Says you. Maybe because the singers today aren't all hopped up on cocaine? Well except Bruno Mars...
I always wanted friends who appreciated this type of music. I could listen to this all day. 👌🏾💕
Why don’t they 😣
I can see why a great chill out tune 👍
@BriBri me too
Alex, luther, Freddie and not forgetting uncle Charlie, all great soul singers, and Jeffrey Osborne! Classic
we can be more than friends listenin to this jam 🤷🏿♂️
This reminds me of my mum i am in tears miss her so much, she passed away over 2 years ago and it was her birthday yesterday 😢
❤❤❤❤❤🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🕊️
STAY STRONG FAM. THROUGH WITH TIME COUNSELLING & POSITIVE MIND SET FAITHFUL SELF HELP MINISTRY & STRONG SUPPORT CAN BE YOU COPE.
Me too love still very heart broken.
They don't make em like this anymore. A classic 👌
2020, anyone? Timeless and classic!
🗣 PRESENT!!!! #Since92 #This_is_RealMusic
Hi uk here, yeah classy love song. Love everything about this tune. I do wish luther was alive still, would have loved to have seen him live. Amazing voice!
This music heals the soul
I’m here
25th June 2020 8:23pm PRESENT
Makes me just wanna drive with the top down through the city at night
That part
Come get me! Nothing like a late-night drive and vibes.
Yep
Yes
Yes!!!
This melodious timeless classic sailing into May of 2024 and still fresh like fresh sweet palm wine. Who's enjoying with me in May of 2024?
if nostalgia was a song,this would be it
Agreed ❤
Absolutely
True
Kids !! this is real music!!
Lol
Amen!
We know💥
What's your definition of real music?
@@jakemiles1427 definitely not that 'Trap' music
He’s the definition of 80s aesthetic. I love his videos🥹❤️
He wasn’t playin no games 💯
❤
So true! Makes sense that I hear this song in various vaporwave songs now lol😊
For all those who love the 80s, help me build a time machine so we can go back and have mind-blowing fun
27 heard this for the first time this year. Dont use tiktok and never will. Song hits the soul man, so calming. Music like this just doesnt exist anymore. Greatful to have found this wonderful piece
Same here! Old soul at heart. I’m 27, but 42 on the inside seriously!
@@ilovepink8684you know good music .
The first song I ever dance to with my first girlfriend. Always brings back memories ❤❤
who else is quarantined while grooving to this..,.
Best music ever made you would never hear anything like it now 💕👏
🙌
Right here 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
Me what a fantastic track to listen to
Yesuh
In a era with Luther, Freddie etc this dude held his own
Definitely
Yes he did
Mos Definitely
😂 Alex was a lil mo rugged, round around the edges. He had a little street edge. 💯
Fo real. Wasn’t he an American football star
Anyone else here from the fb reel?
You bet ya ass we grew up with the best music EVER!❤
Spotify messed this song up so I had to come to UA-cam. This song will never expire. Childhood classic right here.. 80s were a great musical era to be alive.
This version is on Spotify now
It sounds terrible on Spotify
I listen to Alexander O'Neal music at least 3 times a week. Keeps me grounded in what real music is. Warms my soul in troubled times.
Soulful voice
Michael Hughes I’m 22 years old and this music speaks to me too
Love this song
Me too💞💞💞💞💞
Ditto!
Give Alexander his 💐 while he's still alive. He was an incredible singer❤
And still is actually.. just seen him on Nov 17th in Virginia at George Mason University arena place.. ojays was on the ticket, whispers, Howard Hewitt and El debarge and I solely went for El and Alexander, My man Al sounded so good, I was shocked and ecstatic at the same time. He is almost 80 and sound so good but he is a bit sick or something I believe but I was in heaven when he sang this, fake, and Saturday love with Cherrelle
Who here is from Southern California and remembers the radio station KJLH back in the late 80's/early 90's?? I'd listen to the slow jams at night with my window open in the warm summer nights. Good old days...
🙋🏽♀️🙋🏽♀️🙋🏽♀️🙋🏽♀️
Classic R&B. The best R&B in my opinion and still knocks spots off of modern "R&B". Still brilliant.
My dad loved this song. The guy would play it in every car ride and I'd think the man is crazy. Now I'm jamming to it. Rest in Power!
👌🙏❤️🙏
L
He knew good music.
👌🙏❤
Rest in peace to your dad.
There isn’t a better song that captures that 80’s vibe than this one. Best R&B song of all time
Real talk
Well said and timeless too 👌🙏
I don't know where to place the credits, without denying artistes their dues, but the songs that were written and/or produced by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis have something Unforgettable about them. Here we are, almost all agreeing there isn't music like this anymore.
There isn’t my brother
One of'em, but yes!
I'm playing this tonight. On a hot summer evening.. In my own world. Wishing for someone to be here with me.. Maybe one....one day in life....💜💜💜
👀
@@sameenergy9414 hello there 😊😊
Still rocking my man Alexander in 2024!!
It's 2022(so called) and this is still one of the coldest R&B songs ever. Peace and prosperity to true music lovers.
Thank you Clarence! I totally agree! 🎶 ❤
Yes indeed it never gets old!
Love the "so called"
Reply clearance m u r p h y from Denise f i e l d s Hi how are you today I just received your comment and I want to take it back with you I see that you came in under Alexander O'Neal if you were here with me tonight beautiful song and I'm so very glad that you enjoy that. And you know very much about Mr O'Neal prior to the song. And what was it about this ridiculous song that was kind of near and dear to your heart because a lot of people are writing in on it and I'm trying to see this what in particularly is gravitating to the listeners from Mr O'Neal and his song lyrics so if you could please let me know that if you have the time I would certainly appreciate it very very much because everybody has their own way of thinking and it would be nice to know how you receive this song again it's very beautiful. I would like to thank you so very much for being a listener to the station and anytime you feel like commenting please feel free to contact me and I'll be more than happy to get back with you okay so meanwhile if you could please reply to those couple of things that I had asked of you I certainly would appreciate it very very much and again I thank you. 😎🌉💔🍒🌃💥💥🌈🌈
@@Chutney1luv from Denise f i e l d s Hi how are you today I hope all is well I just received your comment on this year Alexander O'Neal song title if you were here with me tonight and I'm so very glad that you enjoyed the song. Did you know very much about Mr O'Neill prior to the song and what was it in particular way that really made you enjoy listening to his beautiful craft if you can please let me know that I certainly would appreciate it very much because you have a lot of listeners that every month on him and a lot of people that haven't really known of him that long and I'm just trying to figure out what the connection is I might be so I would like to thank you so very much for being a listener to the station and anytime you feel like commenting the place for free to contact me back and I'll be more than happy to get back with you just like I'm doing so now but if you could please if you have time if you don't mind answering a couple questions that I sent your way I certainly would appreciate it so very much mean well I hope you've enjoyed your day and I thank you again. 😄💥💥💥💥🌃🍒🍒🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🌷💅🎉🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀
This song reminds me of my late aunt.
She even had it as her ringtone for years.
I came here to Jam with her.
May her precious soul continue to rest in peace❤️💐
My dear condolences lv n may she continue 2 rest up
I can't get over my late girlfriend, we used to sing word for word! 5 years now, 😢
@@afronatalza7545
So sorry brother🙏 I can't imagine the pain of losing a lover.
Strength to you 💪💙
Awww mine too rip aunt duck
@@afronatalza7545
My heart goes out to you.
Sitll listening to since my childhood... Who´s with me? 😍🥰
Meee
Being a young teen in the 80s and 90s was a blessing in disguise. Thank you A O for blessing us!
Right
This hit different as a adult that has gone through some relationship...It's called "Grow folk music " for a reason...💯💯💯
Facts
Yes
💯
Ahahaha, yea IKR ! Yep ! Yep ! Lmao
Yes lawd!🙌🏾
I love this song so much. One of my favorites.
Love it to bit too
One of the greatest.......
Mine too. The best times for original artists and lyrics and tracks were the 80's.
Me too
I play it back to back😊
I hope to be that mother father one day, who used to play this classic in the car when fetching my kids from school❤
Timeless great music never expires. 👍🏽❤️
Music was just DIFFERENT the 70's, 80's and 90's. Thank God we have music like this to take us back.
Especially the 80s
It was real back in those days before technology ruined it.
We will always have it.
no its was BETTER!! smooth and classy...
@@AllenPendletonsocial media ruined everything. People are less social now.
I was born in the 1990s , but I am so in love with the 1980s soul and R&B . Alexander O'neal is a perfect example .
Me too ❤
Me too ❤
Ditto
80’s music was such an amazing decade for music no matter the genre.. classic
Me too!
The 80s was the BEST
My daughter, Robyn reminded me about this song - 29th March 2024. Pleased she appreciates the classics. 🩵🦋🫶🏽
This man was a badass R&B singer. Underrated asf. Ahead of his time. Bold, strong and righteous lyrics!!
Yes he was an amazing Vocalist.Peace
Too bad drug took him… he is amazing tho…
Underrated to who? Real ones know how good he is
@@dchrysostom you had to write this negative shit..look him up in Wikipedia and see that he is doing okay
@@dchrysostom Why would you get on this platform And lie like that? The same energy you give! You will get! And now someone’s somewhere else lying 🤥 about you! Smh 🤦♀️ some people just isn’t Human!
I remember falling in love with this song in my 20's and now I'm 57 and still loving it. It never gets old, a true classic...
Same here..55 and still come back to listen to Alexander's amazing voice
@@lisamattison5136 listening now.
I'm 54 youre spot on doesnt get better than this wish I could turn back time they couldn't make a song like this again unbelievable
Same Here same age so I feel you
I’m 58 & still loving it 😍
This excellent song sounds just as good now as it did in 1985 when in first came out.There can't be many better soul singers than Alexander O'Neal around can there?
This song always makes me think about my childhood. My sister used to sleep with the radio on and they played this all the time on the Sunday night segway/slow jams station
My all-time favorite Alexander O'Neal's songs ever
John Johnson Mine too
I remember this as a kid and it brings back so many memories ❤️
Never Knew Love Like This...#1 in MY opinion. 😉
I love this song ❤️❤️😍💃💃🕺🕺
This is my favorite..but Sunshine is a close 2nd. Also, Crying Overtime is tied with 2nd lol
Mine is innocent
I'd give anything to go back to the 80's... these times are so terrible and sad
I too
4 sure l would also do the same
I wish
I'd take the 90's, but I absolutely feel you!!!
@@thep2340 I totally feel u the 90's were nice also
This is definitely a classic
This brother was a gift to the 80s his music was crazy amazing
Seems like everyone on lockdown is listening to the old classics again
Nena Nae Me 2. Sounds like this music just came out yesterday. Sounds better than ever
This type of music is what makes sense to be honest. So calming and heart felt.
Great tune ❤
These classics make you want to wish the old times to come back.... where this covid 19 didn’t exist
Parker what's your snap?
This has become the theme of the 80s high life fantasty on TikTok.
It’s epic!🖤
its more the dan mason remix but yeah
Even on Instagram, but this song really defines the 80s its nostalgic asf
Literally, lol
And it goes so so perfectly with it! Great song!
Alexander brother,U still sounds so for ever "Smooth"! Even "TOMORROW"!!
WILL CONTINUE TO PLAY YOU OVER & OVER TONIGHT. H'mmm U have "Lifted ME UP,"AGAIN ". THANK YOU BRO, OUT OF THIS WORLD"VOICE!
2024 and it's still sounds good. You can't go wrong with it.
Who’s listening to this in 2023? Fell in love with this song in my late teenage years, almost 40 & I still play it! 😩🙌🏾🤞🏾❤️
I am right now @ 9:45 pm 💙🫠
Me!
Me! Nothing like 80's R&B.
This is still a bop!!!
50yo and still listening......😂
You know I think Alexander O'Neill is too underrated, he doesn't get mentioned in the same breath as some other legends but he's one of the greatest in my opinion. So glad my mum brought me up on this kind of music
True
I know especially with that voice
I have always thought he was underrated. He belongs in the same group as Marvin, Luther and Teddy. I love Alexander O'Neill. It makes me feel so good to hear that people who were born after the 80s love his music. Every generation knows what good music sounds like. ❤💝❤️🔥💖
Coming back to the timeless ❤️1984 baby here
I love the lyric “slow burn a candle for our love”. Making everyday count.
In 2020; we still lack great music like this. 🥺
I have all of the good old music in my phone from the 60 to today's music and he's one of them and sometimes I want to see them sing the song so then I look for a video
Io l'ascolto ora 31 marzo 2020 💖
Minneapolis N your House !
MARY J. BLIGE is close, but damn nothing really like the 80's and 90's just in the best class by themselves...
The closest U can come to this is the weeknd earlier albums like trilogy
in my opinion this song is Alexander O’Neil’s magnum opus, you can tell he put his heart & soul into this, shout out to Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis
This was produced by Monte' Moir (former member of The Time, and part of the Flyte Tyme camp)......
Yes it certainly is
Wrong shout out!!
Yesssssss
It was written and produced by Monte Moir 👌
2024 and it still sounds the same as it did in 1985. I was 7 years old. My parents listened to it all of the time.
Still a classic!!!
I remember I was 10 years old. I was lying down in the back seat of my mom's green Nova listening to this while riding down the highway in Birmingham, AL at night. I would look at the street lights playing peek-a-boo while riding in the back seat. I felt so at peace.
Beautiful memory
🥹🥰
Bham in the house.
😂 wow my Dad had a brown Nova , classic just like song
IV always love the city lights off the ham
This man's voice and music was a staple in my childhood........the 80s and 90s produced some of the best R&B ever!
me too
🎉
10000% FACTS
I'm here from when I was a young boy to a grown man where I'am today*~ I 💬 I still jam this til this day in 2024.. hell'yaa
I listen to this over 10 times in a row and it is just getting better. - Thanks for that era of R&B.
I think of my Mom telling me about her first day with my Dad walking the boardwalk in New Jersey and this song came on and they danced, RIP Dad I hope wherever your spirit is you know Mom still dances to this for you…. ❤️🌹
Beautiful story
😢 beautiful
Beautiful...endless love
You just brought tears to my eyes just saying this... God Bless Your wonderful Dad and God preserve your sweet beautiful mother. You stay Blessed FOREVER too Angel.
Thanks Mr. Alexander O'Neill 🙏
I seriously wish the World 🌎 PEACE ✌️
🥺
He's a 80s legend
Yes
“Slow Burn…Light a Candle for Our Love” 💕
Dam can we please get good music like this again…Please🙏🏾
Still gives me chills…
Oh how this song makes a 32 yr old widow feel! 🥰🥰 I miss my husband so much!!! 🥹🙏
My prayers go to you ❤
🙏🙏🙏
My condolences
❤
❤
Amazing how a song can take you right back in time to that very moment no matter how long ago...no matter how many years have passed....
Yeeeeees
Bringing back such beautiful memories!
Yesssss uuuggghhh Memories 😢😅
I wish that moment can last just a little longer
Yes it gives me goosebumps. And sometimes I tear up reminiscing of days past
I ain’t gonna lie, I play this classic everyday in my chill mood 🎶🎵❤️ Thank you Alexander. O’Neal 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
I feel like crying what a beautiful song 🥹😍❤️🥰
2022 and still a hit , Golden voice !
yes honey
❤️
“This beds too big for me to be in all alone...” 😌❤️
Hi
That line is something serious
I was today year's old when I finally learned what that lyric was(and this song is on my phone's playlist so I listen to it often). I've always heard it completely different.
A heart felt line, dont get that anymore in music
😂
I love this!!! One of my top ten songs!
2024 and Alexander is still singing to me 💯❤️
Alexander was the MAN of the 80's
Underrated. Handsome, debonair, a real soulful crooner.
Yesssssss
Jack D'Ripa not really his fault. MPLS in the 80’s it was everywhere. Most musicians used it to stay up for gigs. He just couldn’t put it down
@@chitownbroiler What is MPLS?
@Jack D'Ripa 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂 im using that one
This song NEVER gets old for me. Love this music!
100
This song gives me peace...90s babies, check in
Tampa FL 05/20/2024 love my 70s-90s music. Keeps my heart in a good and loving place ❤❤❤
Never heard this song before and its fire. I know im from the younger generation but classics like this just hit different
Welcome to real music!
Yes, they really do ☺️
As someone born in 92 but I love this type of r&b
@@THFAMOUSONE95 here and I’m totally in love with 80s 90s then. Wish I was mature enough when they were a hit(back then) to enjoy them even better.
This is music that helped make u Get created and still timeless 2 me and still a banger ‼️🤞🏿
Man put this jam back on Spotify
Werd!!
It’s on Spotify now
@@angieb6161 naw that ain't it chief
It’s not on AppleMusic anymore either and I wanna delete the whole thing
@@tonistark33 Yeah it is
Man i wanna listen to this song 24/7 but it make me miss her more than im supposed to😂
Lamo
Great song from the legend Alexander O'Neal ❤