I Am Missing You

"I Am Missing You"
UK picture sleeve
Single by Ravi Shankar
from the album Shankar Family & Friends
B-side	"Lust"
Released	13 September 1974 (UK) 6 November 1974 (US)
Format	7"
Genre	Folk rock, pop
Length	3:40
Label	Dark Horse
Songwriter(s)	Ravi Shankar
Producer(s)	George Harrison

"I Am Missing You" is a song by Indian musician Ravi Shankar, sung by his sister-in-law Lakshmi Shankar and released as the lead single from his 1974 album Shankar Family & Friends. The song is a rare Shankar composition in the Western pop genre, with English lyrics, and was written as a love song to the Hindu god Krishna. The recording was produced and arranged by George Harrison, in a style similar to Phil Spector's signature sound, and it was the first single issued on Harrison's Dark Horse record label. Other contributing musicians include Tom Scott, Nicky Hopkins, Billy Preston, Ringo Starr and Jim Keltner. A second version appears on Shankar Family & Friends, titled "I Am Missing You (Reprise)", featuring an arrangement closer to a folk ballad.

Shankar and Harrison performed "I Am Missing You" throughout their North American tour in November–December 1974. As a forerunner to the 1980s world music genre, these live performances of the song brought together Shankar's orchestra of distinguished Indian classical musicians – among them, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Shivkumar Sharma, Alla Rakha, T.V. Gopalkrishnan, L. Subramaniam and Sultan Khan – and Harrison's band of top rock, jazz and funk players. The Harrison-arranged studio version of "I Am Missing You" appeared on Shankar's career-spanning box set Ravi Shankar: In Celebration, released in 1996. Shankar reinterpreted "I Am Missing You" for his 2005 project Jazzmin, featuring Californian jazz musicians and his daughter Anoushka on sitar.