"Need All My Friends" is a song written and performed by southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd.

[citation needed] In May 1969, David Griffin, the manager of a small town music store, Marvin Kay’s Music Center, arranged with a local record company, Shade Tree Records, to finance a session for the band at a studio owned by Norm Vincent.

Van Zant and Collins co-wrote two songs that were produced in mono on an eight-track recorder in about an hour.

It was produced as a "sassy blues riff" with Van Zant trying hard to sound like Gregg Allman.

Markham and Suttion, thinking they might be onto something, decided to go ahead and press three hundred copies of the two-sided 45-rpm by "Lynyard Skynard" and flooded radio stations with the record.