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“Need Your Love So Bad” sometimes known as “I Need Your Love So Bad”, is a blues song first published in 1955 and written by Mertis John Jr. The first recording of the song was by Mertis John’s younger brother Little Willie John and was released by King Records and the B-side “Home at Last” reached #6 in the same chart. Other artists who have released cover versions of the song include, Whitesnake, Gary Moore (on his tribute album Blues For Greeny), Irma Thomas, Buddy Guy, Joe Cocker, Bonnie Lee, Bonnie Tyler, Eva Cassidy, Deborah Bonham, Sting, B.B. King, The Allman Brothers Band, Pee Wee Crayton, and Robert Palmer. The songwriting credit has often been incorrectly attributed to Little Willie John. An example of this is the 1969 Fleetwood Mac album The Pious Bird of... Read on...