| "Need You" | ||||
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| Single by Sonny James | ||||
| from the album Need You | ||||
| B-side | "On and On" | |||
| Released | January 1967 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Johnny Blackburn Lou Porter Teepee Mitchell | |||
| Producer(s) | Marvin Hughes | |||
| Sonny James singles chronology | ||||
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"Need You" is a 1967 single by Sonny James. The single went to number one on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart where it spent two weeks at the top.[1] "Need You" spent a total of seventeen weeks on the chart.
"Need You" is known as the song that began a string of 16 consecutive single releases that reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart without a miss. The string would continue into 1971, capped by the song "Here Comes Honey Again," the string finally being broken in 1972 with "Only Love Can Break a Heart." The string of 16 consecutive (non-holiday) single releases would be surpassed in 1985 by the country supergroup Alabama; the band would go on to have 21 No. 1 songs in a row, and to date is the only act to match James' record.