Īfter Céline Dion finished her Falling into You Tour in June 1997, she began to record her next English album. " When I Need You" is a promotional single from Céline Dion's Let's Talk About Love album, released on Septemin Brazil only. When they failed to get him down, they arranged for Crazy Harry to blow it up. In the number, many woodland animals, led by a bear, chased him up a tree. On his guest star appearance on The Muppet Show, Sayer sang the song as the closing number.Mexican group "Yndio" made their own Spanish version during 70's, called "Me haces falta".Czech singer Václav Neckář make cover version in 1978 "Chci tě líbat (I Want To Kiss You)".Joe McElderry covered the song for his fourth studio album, Here's What I Believe.Ryuichi Kawamura recorded a cover in Japanese for his 2011 album The Voice.The Cantonese duet version, known as "For You, I'll Never Give Up," was covered by Gallen Lo and Flora Chan, as the theme song of Hong Kong drama Feminine Masculinity in 1999. Rahul Dev Burman recorded a Hindi version of the song (Tum se mil ke) for a 1989 film Parinda.Lani Hall recorded a Spanish version of the song, "Si Me Amaras (If You Loved Me)", for her 1985 album, Es Fácil Amar, which was produced by Hammond.In the early 1990s he made a new version for a best of -CD. Surinamese balladeer Max Nijman recorded the song as Mi Wan Shi Yu ( Wanna See You) shortly after the original charted at his Dutch home-base.The song was covered by, amongst others, the reggae singer Owen Gray, Céline Dion, Luther Vandross, Perry Como, Rod Stewart (on his compilation album If We Fall in Love Tonight), Barry Manilow (on his compilation album Summer of '78), Alpha Blondy, Edyta Górniak, polish version of album RMF moja i twoja muzyka Brotherhood of Man, Will Mellor, Julio Iglesias, Cliff Richard, Roger Whittaker, Clay Aiken and Gene Pitney on his 2003 album, Blue Angel - The Bronze Sessions. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. This section does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. The same melody can be heard in Elton John's " Little Jeannie" in the lyrics: "Stepped into my life from a bad dream / Making the life that I had seem / Suddenly shiny and new" Cover versions 'Somebody sued them on my behalf … and they did settle', even though, he laughs, 'they hired a musicologist, who said, that particular motif was in the public domain and, in fact, could be traced back as far as Schubert.
Do you remember that song 'When I Need You'?" Cohen sings the chorus of Sayer's number one hit from 1977, then segues into 'And Jane came by with a lock of your hair', a lyric from 'Famous Blue Raincoat'.
I once had that nicking happen with Leo Sayer. In a 2006 interview with the Globe & Mail Cohen said: The melody of the "hook" line, or chorus of "When I Need You" is identical to the part of the Leonard Cohen song " Famous Blue Raincoat", where the lyrics are as follows: "Jane came by with a lock of your hair, she said that you gave it to her that night, that you planned to go clear." The melody of these lyrics matches the lyrics of "When I Need You" as follows: "(When I) need you, I just close my eyes and I'm with you, and all that I so want to give you, is only a heart beat away."
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