HELP ME MAKE IT THROUGH THE NIGHT

Created on 28/10/2003
Latest update on 10/01/2024

Artist: Kris Kristofferson
Author: Kris Kristofferson
Label: Monument
Year: 1969

On his first lp. Two years later also in film Fat City. Rejected by Dottie West for 'immoral connotations'. Adultery was allowed as a topic in country songs but not without guilt. Since there wasn't any in this one, Kristofferson didn't even mind shopping it around. He actually wrote it on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico while working as a helicopter pilot for PHI in Morgan City, LA. (see also: Me And Bobby McGee)

Covers:

1970:

Sammi Smith [n°1 C&W, top 10 US]

1971:

Olivia Newton-John

1971:

Peggy Lee

1971:

Glen Campbell

1971:

Joan Baez

1971:

Mark Lindsay

1971:

Jerry Lee Lewis

1971:

Andy Williams

1971:

Joe Simon

1971:

O.C. Smith

1971:

Gladys Knight & The Pips

1971:

Ben Colder [parody as Help Me Fake It Through The Night]

1971:

Bill Medley

1971:

Percy Sledge

1971:

Lynn Anderson

1971:

Ray Price

1971:

Loretta Lynn

1972:

Johnny Cash & June Carter

1972:

Elvis Presley

1972:

Charlie McCoy

1973:

Joe Simon

1973:

John Holt [hit UK]

1974:

Tammy Wynette

1974:

Bryan Ferry

1974:

Euson

1975:

Charley Pride

1975:

Telly Savalas

1976:

Jack Jersey

1979:

Willie Nelson

1980:

Floyd Cramer

1982:

Johnny Cash

1982:

Tina Turner

1992:

Big Daddy

1996:

Huff & Puff [as Help Me Make It, with the voice of Gladys Knight]

2002:

Chip Taylor

2006:

Bruce Robison [with Kelly Willis]

2009:

John Doe & The Sadies

2011:

LeAnn Rimes

2014:

Harry Dean Stanton

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