Need Your Love So Bad - wikipedia Need Your Love So Bad `` Need Your Love So Bad '' Single by Little Willie John B - side `` Home at Last '' Released 1955 ( 1955 ) Format 10 '' 78 rpm single Recorded New York City, September 28, 1955 Genre Blues Length 2 : 14 Label King ( Cat. no. 4841 ) Songwriter ( s ) Mertis John Jr. `` 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. Contents 1 Background 2 Covers 3 References 4 External links Background The first recording of the song was by Mertis John 's younger brother Little Willie John and was released by King Records. Willie John 's single achieved No. 5 on the Billboard R&B chart in 1956 and the B - side `` Home at Last '' reached No. 6 in the same chart. While using the AABA form and a harmonic layout typical for the R&B ballad, `` Need Your Love So Bad '' has been described as `` A tightly wound and intense plea for love, (... ) quite different from the usual R&B ballad fare ''. 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 Good Omen, on which the original label gave the credit to Little Willie John. The performing rights organisation BMI credits the song to both John brothers. Little Willie John 's version of the song was used in the soundtrack to the film Wonder Boys in 2000. The song has also appeared on various compilation albums, such as The Very Best of Little Willie John, released in 2001 by Collectables Records as a CD. Covers Fleetwood Mac subsequently released a cover of the song as a single, which reached No. 31 in the UK Singles Chart in August 1968. Whitesnake released a cover version as the B - side to their single, Gambler, from the 1984 album Slide It In. The song was also released as a bonus track on the Japanese version of the same album. Gary Moore included the song on his 1995 album Blues for Greeny. This version was also released as a single in June 1995, reaching No. 48 in the UK single charts. References Jump up ^ `` Little Willie John, Need Your Love So Bad by Mertis John ''. Allmusic.com. Retrieved 2002 - 03 - 20. ^ Jump up to : `` Little Willie John by Richard Tapp ''. Acerecords.co.uk. Retrieved 2010 - 03 - 20. Jump up ^ `` Soul Greats, Marble John ''. Supersoulsisters.com. Retrieved 2010 - 01 - 03. ^ Jump up to : Whitburn, Joel ( 2004 ). Top R&B / Hip - Hop Singles : 1942 -- 2004. Record Research. p. 228. Jump up ^ Appen, Ralf von / Frei - Hauenschild, Markus `` AABA, Refrain, Chorus, Bridge, Prechorus -- Song Forms and their Historical Development ''. In : Samples. Online Publikationen der Gesellschaft für Popularmusikforschung / German Society for Popular Music Studies e.V. Ed. by Ralf von Appen, André Doehring and Thomas Phleps. Vol. 13 ( 2015 ), p. 31, 35. Jump up ^ Grendysa, Peter A. ( 1993 ). Fever : The Best of Little Willie John ( liner notes ). Rhino Records. p. 1. R2 71511. Jump up ^ Ron Wynn. `` Fever : The Best of Little Willie John - Little Willie John - Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards - AllMusic ''. AllMusic. Retrieved December 22, 2014. Jump up ^ Rsindex.pictures-hosting.com Archived December 22, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. Jump up ^ `` Entry for Need Your Love So Bad, BMI ''. Repertoire.bmi.com. Jump up ^ `` The AFI Catalog of Feature Films : Wonder Boys ''. Afi.com. Retrieved March 19, 2010. Jump up ^ `` The Very Best of Little Willie John ''. Allmusic.com. Retrieved 2010 - 03 - 20. Jump up ^ Roberts, David ( 2006 ). British Hit Singles & Albums ( 19th ed. ). London : Guinness World Records Limited. p. 205. ISBN 1 - 904994 - 10 - 5. External links Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Need_Your_Love_So_Bad&oldid=771966081 '' Categories : 1955 songs Blues songs Fleetwood Mac songs 1955 singles 1968 singles King Records ( United States ) singles Hidden categories : Webarchive template wayback links Use mdy dates from October 2014 Articles with hAudio microformats Talk Contents About Wikipedia Norsk nynorsk Edit links This page was last edited on 24 March 2017, at 14 : 48. About Wikipedia

Question: who wrote i need your love so bad
Answer: Mertis John Jr.