Confide In Me

Album: Baby, It's Me (1977)
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Songfacts®:

  • "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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