Confide In Me by Diana Ross

Album: Baby, It's Me (1977)

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"Confide In Me" is a very intimate song where Diana Ross makes a real connection to her lover. This relationship is based on trust, which can be powerful stuff.
The song was written by Melissa Manchester and Stan Schwartz. "We wrote it as an old-fashioned torch song ballad, very slow, very vibrato and kind of sultry," Manchester explained to Songfacts.

Manchester is best known as a solo artist with hits like "Midnight Blue" and "You Should Hear How She Talks About You," but she's also an accomplished songwriter - among her co-writes is the Kenny Loggins duet with Stevie Nicks, "Whenever I Call You "Friend"."
Raquel Welch Welch sang "Confide In Me" to Fozzie Bear when she appeared on The Muppet Show in 1978.
Ross released this song on her eighth solo album, Baby, It's Me. She was still on Motown and very prolific around this time. A year earlier, she had a big hit with "Love Hangover."

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