| If It's Alright with You Baby | |
| Cover: | The Korgis If It's Alright with You Baby 1980 single cover.jpg |
| Border: | yes |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | the Korgis |
| Album: | Dumb Waiters |
| B-Side: | Love Ain't Too Far Away |
| Released: | 1 August 1980 |
| Length: | 3:40 |
| Label: | Rialto |
| Producer: | The Korgis |
| Prev Title: | Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime |
| Prev Year: | 1980 |
| Next Title: | Dumb Waiters |
| Next Year: | 1980 |
"If It's Alright with You Baby" is a song by British pop band the Korgis, released on 1 August 1980 as the second single from their second studio album, Dumb Waiters.[1] The song was written by James Warren and was produced by the Korgis. As the follow-up to their UK top 5 hit "Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime", "If It's Alright with You Baby" reached number 56 in the UK Singles Chart and remained in the top 75 for three weeks.
Speaking to UKRADIO in 2019, James Warren recalled of the song, "It was one of those 'throw everything at it', sort of kitchen sink-type productions. Apart from absolutely loving the Beatles, the other thing we used to like when we first started doing the Korgis was classic 60s pop, the Phil Spector kind of thing: big productions, kitchen sink, everything thrown in. So I think it was one of our attempts at doing one of those, where the song is just huge right from the beginning and it's like a wall of sound. When I hear it now, I wish we could have used a real string section rather than synthesiser strings because to me that would've really made the sound we were looking for."[2]
Upon its release as a single, Mike Nicholls of Record Mirror stated that "no high production gloss can submerge the sweetness of this achingly romantic ballad". He added, "[It] ain't gonna lose the Korgis the tag of thinking men's 'New Musik' or somesuch but is still a very worthy, very memorable slice of schmaltz. Eeh, ah've seen grown men turn t'jelly in t' face of choons like this."[3] Peter Trollope of the Liverpool Echo noted that "once again it's another immaculate production, but it lacks that certain something you need for a top ten hit". He predicted it would "find a way into the lower half of the top thirty".[4]
7–inch single
Production