"I Need You Now" is a popular song written by Jimmie Crane and Al Jacobs.
Eddie Fisher subsequently recorded a version of it accompanied by Hugo Winterhalter and his Orchestra at Webster Hall, New York City, on May 4, 1954.
The song was released by RCA Victor Records backed with "Heaven Was Never Like This" (catalog number 20-5830) in August 1954.
Fisher's recording reached number 1 on Billboard as well as Cash Box charts in November 1954.
[8] Jacobs and Crane later gave James another song "My Believing Heart," which became the follow-up to her million selling "You Are My Love."