If We Fall in Love Tonight

Album information

If We Fall in Love Tonight contains one track, the title track, which was written for the album. There were some legal wrangles regarding this track, the copyright and the track title which have now been resolved. The album also includes three newly recorded cover versions of hit songs: "Sometimes When We Touch," originally sung by Dan Hill; "When I Need You," originally sung by Leo Sayer; and "For the First Time," originally sung by Kenny Loggins. Two more of the songs had not been previously released on a Rod Stewart album: "So Far Away", originally by Carole King, which had been released as a single in 1995from that year's Carole King tribute album, Tapestry Revisited, and "All for Love," sung with Bryan Adams and Sting, from the soundtrack to the 1993 film The Three Musketeers. Additionally, two songs were remade for If We Fall in Love Tonight: "Have I Told You Lately" by Van Morrison, which was originally released on Vagabond Heart and was remixed for this album; and "Forever Young", originally on Out of Order, which was completely re-recorded. The remaining tracks had all been previously released on Rod Stewart albums.

Charts

If We Fall in Love Tonight reached #8 in the UK and #19 in the US. On 9 September 1997 it received platinum certification by the RIAA.

US release

1. "If We Fall in Love Tonight" (Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis) – 5:42
2. "For the First Time" (Jud Friedman, Allan Rich, James Newton Howard) – 4:07
3. "When I Need You" (Carole Bayer Sager, Albert Hammond) – 4:52
4. "So Far Away" (Carole King) (previously released on the Carole King tribute album, Tapestry Revisited) – 4:22
5. "Have I Told You Lately" (remix) (Van Morrison) – 3:58
6. "My Heart Can't Tell You No" (previously released on Out of Order) – 5:14
7. "You're in My Heart (The Final Acclaim)" (previously released on Foot Loose & Fancy Free) – 4:28
8. "First Cut Is the Deepest" (previously released on A Night on the Town) – 3:52
9. "I Don't Want to Talk About It (1989)" (previously released on Storyteller) – 4:21
10. "Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)" (previously released on A Night on the Town) – 3:34
11. "Sometimes When We Touch" (Barry Mann, Dan Hill) – 4:20
12. "Downtown Train" (Tom Waits, previously released on Storyteller) – 4:38
13. "Broken Arrow" (previously released on Vagabond Heart) – 4:23
14. "Forever Young" (new version) (Stewart, Jim Cregan, Kevin Savigar) – 4:57
15. "All for Love" (Bryan Adams, Robert Lange, Michael Kamen) (previously released on the Three Musketeers Soundtrack)– 4:44

International release

1. "If We Fall in Love Tonight" – 5:42
2. "For the First Time" – 4:07
3. "When I Need You" – 4:52
4. "Sometimes When We Touch" – 4:20
5. "Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)" – 3:34
6. "I Don't Want to Talk About It (1989)" –4:21
7. "Have I Told You Lately" (Van Morrison) (remix) – 3:58
8. "Broken Arrow" – 4:23
9. "Forever Young" (new version) – 4:57
10. "You're in My Heart (The Final Acclaim)" – 4:28
11. "My Heart Can't Tell You No" – 5:14
12. "The First Cut Is the Deepest" – 3:52
13. "This" (previously released on A Spanner in the Works) - 4:37
14. "Downtown Train" – 4:38
15. “Tom Traubert's Blues (Waltzing Matilda)” (previously released on Lead Vocalist) – 6:10
16. “All for Love” – 4:44

Note: The Japanese release replaces track 8, "Broken Arrow", with "Your Song," from the Elton John tribute album Two Rooms. The track list is otherwise identical.

Production personnel