You're All I Need to Get By

Album: You're All I Need (1968)
Charted: 19 7
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  • You're all I need to get by, oh, oh
    You're all I need to get by, oh, oh
    Like sweet morning dew, I took one look at you (you're all I need to get by)
    And it was plain to see, you were my destiny (you're all I need to get by)
    With my arms open wide (you're all I need to get by)
    I threw away my pride
    I'll sacrifice for you
    Dedicate my life for you, oh, oh

    I will go where you lead, c'mon, baby, always there in time of need, oh, oh
    And when I lose my will you'll be there to push me up the hill
    There's no, no looking back for us
    We got love sure 'nough, that's enough
    You're all, You're all I need to get by

    (You're all I need to get by), oh, oh, yeah, yeah, tammi, listen
    Like an eagle protects his nest, for you I'll do my best (you're all I need to get by)
    Stand by you like a tree, dare anybody to try and move me (you're all I need to get by)
    Darling, in you I found (you're all I need to get by)
    Strength where I was torn down (you're all I need to get by)
    Don't know what's in store but together we can open any door
    Oh, baby, just to do what's good for you and inspire you a little higher
    Oh, I know you can make a man out of a soul that didn't have a goal
    'Cause we, we got the right foundation and with love and determination
    You're all I want to strive for and do a little more
    You're all, all the joys under the sun wrapped up into one, you're
    All, you're all I need
    You're all I need
    You're all I need, oh, to get by (you're all I need to get by)
    Ooh, baby, oh, baby (you're all I need to get by)
    Honey, honey, honey, honey, honey, yeah (you're all I need to get by)
    I need you darlin' (you're all I need to get by)
    Oh, I need you, all your love, you're all I need, oh (you're all I need to get by)
    Oh, baby, you're all I need, I need your love, you're all I want
    Oh, oh, all your love, now, yeah Writer/s: Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Comments: 2

  • Cam from OhioI was thrilled to hear this song heavily featured in the fabulous 2021 movie CODA which is nominated for three Academy Awards including best picture. Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell together are one of my very favorite duet partners!
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn August 15, 1978, Johnny Mathis was a guest on the Los Angeles-based syndicated television program 'The Merv Griffin Show'...
    At the time Johnny Mathis, in a duet with Deniece Williams, was at #56 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart with "You're All I Need To Get By", two weeks later it would peak at #47 {for 1 week}, the following week it dropped down to #61 and that would be was it's seventh and final week on the Top 100...
    It reached #10 on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart...
    Between 1957 and 1984 Mr. Mathis had forty-three* Top 100 records; six made the Top 10 with two reaching #1, "Chances Are" for 1 week in 1957 and "Too Much, Too Little, Too Late", a duet with Deniece Williams, for 1 week in 1978...
    John Royce Mathis will celebrate his 82nd birthday next month on September 30th {2017}...
    * Three of his forty-three Top 100 records were duets; two with Deniece Williams and one with Dionne Warwick.
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