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"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.
Goodrum wrote number one songs in each of the four decades after his first number one hit, 1978's "You Needed Me". [1] [2] Goodrum's songs have appeared on the country, pop, jazz, rock, R&B and adult contemporary charts. An accomplished pianist, his music has been used extensively in film and television. [3] [4]
The second single released, "You Needed Me", would ultimately become one of the biggest hits of Murray's career, topping all three Canadian charts; in the U.S. it reached No. 1 on the U.S. pop singles charts (becoming Murray's sole chart-topper on the Hot 100 charts), as well as No. 4 on the country singles charts, and No. 3 on the A/C charts.
Another part of the song has Swift singing about a person battling addiction, while she shapes herself into the person they want her to be: “You needed me, but you needed drugs more/ And I ...
It went platinum, selling over 1,000,000 units, and climbed to No. 35 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart. The first single, "Holy Water", was a No. 1 Billboard Album Rock Tracks hit for two weeks during the summer of 1990 as the band toured the United States with Damn Yankees.
Recorded in summer 1978 and released in early 1979 on Springfield's Living Without Your Love album the same week her record label, United Artists Records, was sold, the track was subsequently never released as a single and went largely unnoticed by the listening public due to the success of Anne Murray's recording of the song, released not long after.
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She also recorded a version of the song in Spanish, which was released on vinyl, and later on CD. In addition, "Broken Hearted Me" just missed the Top 10 on the Hot 100 chart, where it peaked at No. 12. Three of her other singles — "A Love Song", "I Just Fall in Love Again" and "Daydream Believer" — also reached the same summit on the Hot 100.