You Might Need Somebody

"You Might Need Somebody"
Dutch release
Single by Randy Crawford
from the album Secret Combination
B-side"You Bring the Sun Out"
Released1981
GenreR&B
Length4:17
LabelWarner Bros.
Songwriter(s)Nan O'Byrne, Tom Snow
Producer(s)Tommy LiPuma
Randy Crawford singles chronology
"When I Lose My Way"
(1981)
"You Might Need Somebody"
(1981)
"Rainy Night In Georgia"
(1981)

"You Might Need Somebody" is a song written by Tom Snow and Nan O'Byrne, and first recorded in 1980 by American singer and guitarist Turley Richards. The following year, American jazz and R&B singer and songwriter Randy Crawford released her version which reached No. 11 in the United Kingdom and was a modest hit in Flanders (Belgium) and New Zealand. In 1997, English singer Shola Ama's version reached the top-10 in the UK and in several other countries including Ireland, France, the Netherlands, and New Zealand.