Right Back Where We Started From is the debut album by British R&B and soul music singer Maxine Nightingale, recorded and released in 1976 by United Artists.

8 in the UK: subsequent to its year-end US release the track would reach #5 in Adult Contemporary, #9 in Dance Music/Club Play, #46 in R&B singles and #2 on the Billboard Hot 100.

"[3] Released in June 1976 – concurrent with the single "Gotta Be the One" – the Right Back Where We Started From album drew little evident critical notice.

Dave Marsh of Rolling Stone in his syndicated capsule review column, while praising the title cut as "one of the most engaging singles of the current Top 40", opined that the album overall "fumbles through mild, unexciting ballads (a little like those Natalie Cole does so well) and the [expected] listless disco forays.

[4] Lynn Short of the Morristown Daily Record agreed: "'Right Back Where We Started From' is definitely a cut above the average Top 40 song.