Save Me (Clodagh Rodgers song)

"Save Me"
Single by Louise Mandrell
from the album Close Up
B-side "Trust Me"
Released February 26, 1983
Genre Country
Length 3:21
Label RCA
Writer(s) R.C. Bannon, Doug Flett, Guy Fletcher
Producer(s) Eddie Kilroy
Louise Mandrell singles chronology
"Romance"
(1982)		 "Save Me"
(1983)		 "Too Hot to Sleep"
(1983)

"Save Me" is a song written by Guy Fletcher and Doug Flett and originally recorded in 1976 by the Irish singer Clodagh Rodgers, for her album of the same title, and released as a single.[1] Rodgers' version failed to chart, but a version recorded the following year by the South African group Clout reached the top ten in South Africa[2] and other countries.

"Save Me" was covered again in 1983 by American country music artist Louise Mandrell. It was released in February as the second single from her album Close Up, and Mandrell's then-husband, R.C. Bannon, is credited as a co-writer on her version. The song reached #6 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.[3] It was also her first Billboard top 10 single on that chart.

Chart performance

Chart (1983) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks 6
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 2

References

  1. ↑ "Clodagh Rodgers – Save Me". Discogs. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
  2. ↑ "Clout". The South African Rock Encyclopedia. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
  3. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 214.