Help Me (Joni Mitchell song)
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| Single by Joni Mitchell | ||||
| from the album Court and Spark | ||||
| B-side | "Just Like This Train" | |||
| Released | March 1974 | |||
| Recorded | 1973 | |||
| Genre | Folk jazz | |||
| Length | 3:22 | |||
| Label | Asylum | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Joni Mitchell | |||
| Producer(s) | Joni Mitchell | |||
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"Help Me" is a love song written, produced, and performed by Joni Mitchell, from her 1974 album Court and Spark. The song was recorded with jazz band Tom Scott's L.A. Express as the backing band. "Help Me" was Mitchell's biggest hit single: it peaked at #7 in June 1974 on the Billboard Hot 100, her only top 10 hit; it hit #1 on the easy listening chart.
The song is ranked #288 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Artists who have recorded cover versions of the song include:
The Prince song "Ballad of Dorothy Parker" (from his 1987 album Sign o' the Times) mentions the song in the lyrics. A reference to "Help Me" - "Joni, help me; I think I'm falling" - can also be heard in "Looking Through Patient Eyes" by P.M. Dawn.
In the show South Park, the character Butters briefly sings this song in episode 2 of season 11, "Cartman Sucks". In the sixth season of TV series Shameless main character Frank Gallagher and his lover Queenie sing during breakfast the first half of the song.
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