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"If I Had You" is a song recorded by singer Karen Carpenter during her solo sessions in New York with producer Phil Ramone for her subsequently shelved debut solo album. In 1989, "If I Had You" was released as a Karen Carpenter solo single (featuring Richard Carpenter's remix ending), along with "The Uninvited Guest" (an outtake from the Carpenters album Made in America), also credited as a

Karen, who was not interested in remaining idle during my hiatus, elected to record a solo album. To produce the album, Herb Alpert suggested Phil Ramone, a highly-talented and successful producer who had enjoyed both critical and commercial success with such artists as Paul Simon, Billy Joel, et al. Phil signed on and on April 30, 1979, Karen

After Karen's death in 1983, the song was placed on the Carpenters' next album, Voice of the Heart, and was released as a single. Richard Carpenter's arrangement uses far more instrumentation in comparison to Karen's solo version, adds a bridge written specifically for this version, key modulation during the last chorus, and the inclusion of