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Finished my slide show video of
Anne Murray's - You Needed Me
and posted it at host site YouTube.
It was a number one single in the United States in 1978.
Interestingly, the songwriter for the tune discusses how we how he wrote it at the site songfacts.com , in his own words:
"At one point, I got disgusted with it and threw it away."
Anne Murray was struggling with the pressures of juggling her career and her family life with her husband Bill Langstroth and her toddler son William. One day she was going through a box of tapes when she came across a song that expressed just how she was feeling. Unfortunately, only the writer's name, Randy Goodrum, was on the cassette but her producer researched his name in the phone book and she recorded his song. It became her second American #1 and to this day it remains the favorite of her own recordings.
It was about 7 years between when Goodrum started writing this song and Murray recorded it.
In Malaysia, this was #1 for 10 weeks.
The song won the 1978 Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance, and was also a top-five country single and won Song of the Year at the Academy of Country Music awards.
You Needed Me became the second single for Irish Boyband Boyzone from their album By Request and Anne Murrays signature songs have been also covered by Elvis Presley (Snowbird) and Engelbert Humperdinck.
Its actually a kind of funny version (here), I love Engelbert-,..but it is the mellow reserve, the restraint and not the surrender to passion that makes this music and vocals work together so wonderfully.
It is nice though that he gives it a rendition and pays the writer and singer a true compliment and honour by playing it.
Without further adieu, here is my version. Enjoy...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESxXYGi634E
