On My Own (Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald song)

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"On My Own"
Single by Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald
from the album Winner in You
B-side	"Stir It Up"
Released	February 23, 1986
Recorded	1985
Genre	Pop[1]
Length	4:50
Label	MCA
Songwriter(s)	Burt Bacharach Carole Bayer Sager
Producer(s)	Burt Bacharach Carole Bayer Sager
Patti LaBelle singles chronology
"Stir It Up" (1985) "On My Own" (1986) "Oh, People" (1986)
Michael McDonald singles chronology
"No Lookin' Back" (1985) "On My Own" (1986) "Sweet Freedom" (1986)
Music video
"On My Own" on YouTube

"On My Own" is a duet by American singers Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald. It was written and produced by Burt Bacharach and his then-wife Carole Bayer Sager and originally recorded by singer Dionne Warwick for inclusion on her album Friends (1985). The song was eventually recorded by LaBelle and McDonald for her eighth studio album, Winner in You (1986). It was released as the album's lead single on March 22, 1986, by MCA Records. Lyrically, "On My Own" was based on a relationship that had reached its end with both parties going their separate ways in a melancholy state with the occasional option of coming back together again one day.

The two performers were in separate cities when they recorded their individual parts, which were then "married" during mixing. This was reflected in the music video produced to promote the song, which depicted LaBelle and McDonald performing the song simultaneously on different coasts.^[2] The singers were shown on separate sides of a split screen, each singing the song while walking through apartments that had identical layouts but different decor and furniture. The views from their respective porches, where they finished the song, made clear their separation by the continent.