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"Need You"
Single by Sonny James
from the album Need You
B-side"On and On"
ReleasedJanuary 1967
Genre Country
Label Capitol
Songwriter(s)Johnny Blackburn
Lou Porter
Teepee Mitchell
Producer(s)Marvin Hughes
Sonny James singles chronology
"Room in Your Heart"
(1966)
"Need You"
(1967)
" I'll Never Find Another You"
(1967)

"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.

Chart performance

Chart (1967) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles 1

References

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 172.