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"Help Me Make It Through the Night" is a country ballad written and composed by Kris Kristofferson and released on his 1970 album Kristofferson. It was covered later in 1970 by Sammi Smith, on the album Help Me Make It Through the Night. In 1982, Kris did a re-recording with Brenda Lee for the compilation album The Winning Hand.
The song became most famous in a version by Elvis Presley. In 1974, Presley released the song as part of a double A-sided single with "If You Talk in Your Sleep." [1] "Help Me" became the side promoted to country radio, and the song reached No. 6 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart on the week of August 10, 1974. [2] ("
In addition, "Help Me Make It Through the Night" also reached #1 on the RPM Country chart in Canada, as well as #4 on its Top Singles chart. [5] For the song's success, Smith would later win the Country Music Association's "Single of the Year" award and the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance in 1972. [2]
"Why Me" was Kristofferson's lone major country hit as a solo recording artist, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in July 1973. [4] The song peaked only at No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100, but had at that time one of the longer runs (19 weeks) in the top 40 [1] and the most chart reversals (6) in one run on the Hot 100.
Jewel Fay "Sammi" Smith (August 5, 1943 – February 12, 2005) [3] was an American country music singer and songwriter. She is best known for her 1971 crossover hit "Help Me Make It Through the Night", which was written by Kris Kristofferson.
Hank Crawford - alto saxophone; Al DeRisi, Snooky Young - trumpet (track 7) Wayne Andre - trombone (track 7); Grover Washington, Jr. - tenor saxophone (track 7) Pepper Adams - baritone saxophone (track 7)
"The Loving Gift" is a song written by Kris Kristofferson and originally recorded by the duo of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. [2]Released in December 1972 as a single (Columbia 4-45758, with a cover of Kristofferson's "Help Me Make It Through the Night" on the opposite side) [1] [3] [4] and also included on Johnny Cash's album Any Old Wind That Blows out on January 5 of the next year, [5 ...
The Prince song "The Ballad of Dorothy Parker", from his 1987 album Sign o' the Times, mentions the song in the lyrics: "..and it was Joni singing: ‘Help me, I think I'm falling’." Prince was a huge fan of Joni Mitchell's work. [8] A sample can also be heard in "Looking Through Patient Eyes" by P.M. Dawn.