If You Were with Me Now

"If You Were with Me Now" is a song by Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue and American R&B singer Keith Washington. It was written by Minogue, Washington, and British songwriting team Mike Stock and Pete Waterman for Minogue's fourth studio album, Let's Get to It (1991). The song was produced by Stock and Waterman. The song was released as the second single on 21 October 1991 by Mushroom Records and PWL Records. It reached number four on the UK Singles Chart, as well as the top 10 in Ireland and the top 30 in Australia. The song is Minogue's first hit single to feature her as a co-writer.

"If You Were with Me Now"
Single by Kylie Minogue and Keith Washington
from the album Let's Get to It
B-side	"I Guess I Like It Like That"
Released	21 October 1991 (1991-10-21)[1]
Studio	PWL (London, England)[2]
Length	3:11
Label	Mushroom (Australia) PWL (Europe)
Songwriter(s)	Mike Stock Kylie Minogue Pete Waterman Keith Washington
Producer(s)	Mike Stock Pete Waterman
Kylie Minogue singles chronology
"Word Is Out" (1991) "If You Were with Me Now" (1991) "Keep on Pumpin' It" (1991)
Keith Washington singles chronology
"Are You Still in Love with Me" (1991) "If You Were with Me Now" (1991) "Make Time for Love" (1992)
Music video
"If You Were with Me Now" on YouTube

Critical reception

Digital Spy's Nick Levine called the track a "slushy duet".^[3] Betty Page from NME wrote, "As for "If You Were Here with Me Now", well, I predict the world will be hearing an awful lot of this, probably around Christmas. It's a duet with 'mystery singer' Keith Washington, who sounds like Son Of Lionel but could be helping Kylie to be the Big American Hit. It's oozingly schmaltzy and is probably a brilliant career move."^[4] Writing Minogue's biography for her special on Australian music video programme Rage, they called the song one of the "richly beautiful ballads".^[5] In 2023, Robert Moran of Australian daily tabloid newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald ranked the song as Minogue's 178th best song (out of 183), adding that sounds like "a play for the Aladdin soundtrack".^[6]

Track listings

• Australian and UK CD single^[7][2]

1. "If You Were with Me Now" – 3:10
2. "I Guess I Like It Like That" – 5:59
3. "If You Were with Me Now" (extended version) – 5:06

• Australian and UK cassette single, UK 7-inch single^[8][9][10]

1. "If You Were with Me Now" – 3:10
2. "I Guess I Like It Like That" – 3:30

• UK 12-inch single^[11]

1. "If You Were with Me Now" – 5:06
2. "I Guess I Like It Like That" – 5:59

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (1991) Peak position Australia (ARIA)[12] 23 Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[13] 31 Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)[14] 18 Germany (GfK)[15] 61 Ireland (IRMA)[16] 7 Luxembourg (Radio Luxembourg)[17] 3 Netherlands (Dutch Top 40 Tipparade)[18] 9 Netherlands (Single Top 100)[19] 56 UK Singles (OCC)[20] 4

Year-end charts Chart (1991) Position UK Singles (OCC)[21] 91