"I Need You Now" is a popular

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 song

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 written by Al Jacobs and Jimmie Crane.

The recorded version by Eddie Fisher

Eddie Fisher (singer)

Edwin Jack "Eddie" Fisher , was an American entertainer. He was one of the world's most famous and successful singers in the 1950s, selling millions of records and hosting his own TV show. His divorce from his first wife, Debbie Reynolds, to marry his best friend's widow, Elizabeth Taylor, garnered...

, issued by RCA Victor Records as catalog number

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 20-5830, reached #1 on the Billboard  and Cash Box

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 charts in 1954

1954 in music

-Events:*January 14 - First documented use of the abbreviated term "Rock 'n' Roll" to promote Alan Freed's Rock 'n' Roll Jubillee, held at St. Nicholas Arena in New York, New York...

.

The song was also performed by Russell Arms

Russell Arms

Russell Lee Arms is an American actor and singer.-Career:Arms began his career on radio, moving up to minor screen roles during World War II as a contract player with Warner Brothers and later as a freelance performer, mostly in Westerns...

 on several 1954 episodes of the popular TV series Your Hit Parade

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. A kinescope

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 of one of these performances survives and can be viewed online.

Recorded versions

• Floyd Cramer
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• Ronnie Dove
  Ronnie Dove
  Ronnie Dove is an American pop and country musician.Born in Herndon, VA, Ronnie began his singing career in the clubs of Baltimore. He formed a group, The Belltones, and they played Baltimore and the East Coast for four years...
  
  
• Eddie Fisher
  Eddie Fisher (singer)
  Edwin Jack "Eddie" Fisher , was an American entertainer. He was one of the world's most famous and successful singers in the 1950s, selling millions of records and hosting his own TV show. His divorce from his first wife, Debbie Reynolds, to marry his best friend's widow, Elizabeth Taylor, garnered...
  
   with Hugo Winterhalter
  Hugo Winterhalter
  Hugo Winterhalter was an American musician.An easy listening arranger and composer, Winterhalter was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Mount St. Mary's near Emmitsburg, Maryland in 1931, where he played saxophone for the orchestra and sang in two of the choirs...
  
  's orchestra and chorus recorded it at Webster Hall, New York City, on May 4, 1954
  1954 in music
  -Events:*January 14 - First documented use of the abbreviated term "Rock 'n' Roll" to promote Alan Freed's Rock 'n' Roll Jubillee, held at St. Nicholas Arena in New York, New York...
  
  . The song was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number 20-5830 (in USA) and by EMI
  EMI
  The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...
  
   on the His Master's Voice label as catalog number B 10755.
• Wanda Jackson
  Wanda Jackson
  Wanda Lavonne Jackson is an American singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist who had success in the mid-1950s and 60s as one of the first popular female rockabilly singers and a pioneering rock and roll artist...
  
   (1962
  1962 in music
  -Events:*January 1 – The Beatles and Brian Poole and the Tremeloes both audition at Decca Records, a company which has the option of signing one group only...
  
  )
• Harry James
  Harry James
  Henry Haag “Harry” James was a trumpeter who led a jazz swing band during the Big Band Era of the 1930s and 1940s. He was especially known among musicians for his astonishing technical proficiency as well as his superior tone.-Biography:He was born in Albany, Georgia, the son of a bandleader of a...
  
  
• Joni James
  Joni James
  Joni James is an American singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards.-Biography:...
  
  
• Betty Johnson
  Betty Johnson
  Betty Johnson is an American traditional pop and cabaret singer.-Biography:Johnson was born in Guilford County, North Carolina. Her professional debut was in a family group, The Johnson Family Singers, including her parents and three brothers, singing a repertoire primarily of religious material...
  
  
• Hank Locklin
  Hank Locklin
  Lawrence Hankins Locklin , better known as Hank Locklin, was an American country music singer-songwriter...
  
  (1964)