I Can Help

"I Can Help"
Single by Billy Swan
from the album I Can Help
B-side"Ways of a Woman in Love"[2]
ReleasedJuly 1974[1]
Recorded1974
StudioYoung 'Un Sound, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Genre
Length2:58 (single edit)
4:01 (album version)
LabelMonument
Songwriter(s)Billy Swan
Producer(s)Chip Young and Billy Swan
Billy Swan singles chronology
"I Can Help"
(1974)
"I'm Her Fool"
(1975)

"I Can Help" is a song written[4] and performed by Billy Swan. Released in July 1974,[1] the song was a big crossover smash, reaching No. 1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Country Singles charts late that fall. Although Swan had other charting singles on both the Hot 100 and country charts, the song is generally recognized as being Swan's only major hit single release.[5] However, Swan had continued success as a songwriter for other artists and as a session musician.

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Sound on Sound was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 412. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
  3. ^ Breihan, Tom (June 13, 2019). "The Number Ones: Billy Swan's "I Can Help"". Stereogum. Retrieved June 20, 2023. Billy Swan's "I Can Help" is a weird little #1 hit, a lazy old-timey rockabilly shuffle...
  4. ^ "The Billboard Book of Number One Hits" by Fred Bronson, 4th ed.
  5. ^ "One Hit Wonder Central - #songs.artist#: #songs.song_title#". Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved 2015-01-14.