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“You and Me Against the World” is a song written by Kenny Ascher and Paul Williams, recorded by Helen Reddy for her 1974 album Love Song for Jeffrey. “You and Me Against the World” was the first song written by Kenny Ascher and Paul Williams and began as a gag song: Williams and Ascher, a member of Williams’ band, had a discussion about their favorite songwriters which led to the spontaneous composition of a song on the subject whose tune, Ascher then realized, had real hit potential. Williams himself debuted “You and Me Against the World” on his 1974 album Inspiration, singing it as a traditional love ballad. Reddy considered the song’s lyrics too “paternalistic” to be convincing as a woman’s declaration of love for a man. Instead Reddy interpreted the song as a... Read on...