You Needed Me

"You Needed Me"
Single by Anne Murray
from the album Let's Keep It That Way
B-side"I Still Wish the Very Best for You"
ReleasedMay 1978
RecordedJanuary 1978
GenreSoft rock[1][2]
Length3:41
LabelCapitol 4574
Songwriter(s)Randy Goodrum
Producer(s)Jim Ed Norman
Anne Murray singles chronology
"Walk Right Back"
(1978)
"You Needed Me"
(1978)
"Hey, Daddy"
(1978)

"You Needed Me" is a song written by Randy Goodrum, who describes it as being about "unconditional undeserved love".[3] It was a number-one single in the United States in 1978 for Canadian singer Anne Murray, for which she won a Grammy Award. In 1999, Irish pop band Boyzone recorded a hit cover of the song that reached number one on the UK Singles Chart.

  1. ^ "VH1's 40 Most Softsational Soft-Rock Songs". Stereogum. May 31, 2007. Retrieved July 31, 2016.
  2. ^ Smith, Troy L. (14 December 2021). "Every No. 1 song of the 1970s ranked from worst to best". Cleveland.com. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
  3. ^ "You Needed Me by Anne Murray Songfacts". Songfacts.com. Retrieved 2014-04-01.