(JESUS SAID IF YOU NEED ME) I'LL BE THERE
Created on 08/02/2006Latest update on 18/12/2024
Artist: Swanee Quintet
Author: Rev. Julius Cheeks
Label: Nashboro
Year: 1963
Covers:
- 1963:
Wilson Pickett [as If You Need Me for Double-L; top 30 R&B; crediting Pickett/Bateman/Sanders; with Ivory Joe Hunter on piano and Cissy Houston (backing vocals)]
- 1963:
Solomon Burke [idem; n°2 R&B (see footnote)]
- 1964:
- 1965:
- 1965:
- 1973:
After All [NL band from Enschede; n°1 South Africa]
- 1974:
- 1992:
- 2013:
Gerrit Trip [leadsinger of After All solo as If You Need Me After All]
The song Wilson showed Atlantic A&R man Jerry Wexler, who bought it but passed it over to Solomon Burke. First time Pickett cried in his life. When his next single (It's Too Late) hit, Wexler finally considered seriously to buy Wilson's Double L contract. It's never too late.
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