# Help Me!

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For the song by Morning Musume, see [Help Me!!](/source/Help_Me!!), [other uses](/source/Other_uses), [Help Me](/source/Help_Me_(disambiguation)).

"**Help Me!**" is a song by [Marcy Levy](/source/Marcella_Detroit) (better known now as [Marcella Detroit](/source/Marcella_Detroit)) and [Robin Gibb](/source/Robin_Gibb). The song was recorded for the official [soundtrack](/source/Soundtrack) of *[Times Square](/source/Times_Square_(soundtrack))*, and released as the album's lead single, going on to peak at #50 on the Billboard Top 100. It was also considered as Levy's first single and her only song that was charted in the United States.

## Background

After working on [Jimmy Ruffin](/source/Jimmy_Ruffin)'s *[Sunrise](/source/Sunrise_(Jimmy_Ruffin_album))* (including the track "Where Do I Go", a duet by Ruffin and Marcy Levy) Robin Gibb and [Bee Gees](/source/Bee_Gees) keyboardist [Blue Weaver](/source/Blue_Weaver) work together again by supplying tracks for the soundtrack of the film *[Times Square](/source/Times_Square)* (an [RSO](/source/RSO_Records) movie). And the result was the song "Help Me!" sung by Levy and Gibb. The song was heard in the film's closing credits.[1]

Related session outtake, "Touch Me", a song also written by Gibb and Weaver with lead vocals provided by Levy as a demo for [Linda Clifford](/source/Linda_Clifford), but was not recorded by Clifford herself. Weaver says he and Levy didn't like its sexually charged lyrics and Gibb had to talk Levy into singing it. The B-side of the single, an instrumental version of "Help Me!" on which they made two instrumental versions of the same track, one with Gary Brown playing a [sax](/source/Saxophone) solo.[1]

It was released September 1980 and peaked at #50 in the [Billboard Hot 100](/source/Billboard_Hot_100),[2] #65 in [*Cashbox*](/source/Cashbox_(magazine)) and #64 in *[Record World](/source/Record_World)*.

## Charts

Chart (1980) Peak position US Billboard Hot 100[2] 50 US Cash Box[3] 65 US Record World[4] 64

## Personnel

Adapted from the *Times Square Soundtrack* album booklet:[5]

- [Robin Gibb](/source/Robin_Gibb) — [lead](/source/Lead_vocal) and [harmony vocal](/source/Harmony_vocal)
- [Marcy Levy](/source/Marcella_Detroit) — lead and harmony vocal
- [Blue Weaver](/source/Blue_Weaver) — [keyboards](/source/Keyboard_instrument), [synthesizer](/source/Synthesizer)
- Gary Brown — [saxophone](/source/Saxophone)
- Uncredited — [guitar](/source/Guitar)
- Uncredited — [bass](/source/Bass_guitar)
- Uncredited — [drums](/source/Drums)
- Uncredited — [handclaps](/source/Handclaps)

## References

1. Brennan, Joseph. ["Gibb Songs: 1980"](http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/80.html). Retrieved 20 December 2014.

1. ["Allmusic > Robin Gibb (for 'Help Me!')"](http://www.allmusic.com/artist/robin-gibb-mn0000835671/awards). allmusic.com. Retrieved 2012-11-27.

1. ["Cash Box Top 100 Singles"](http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/80s_files/19801206.html). Cashbox. 6 December 1980. Retrieved 28 December 2014.

1. ["Songs Written by the Gibb Family on the International Charts"](https://web.archive.org/web/20150923194743/http://www.brothersgibb.org/download/page-4.pdf). brothersgibb.org. Archived from [the original](http://www.brothersgibb.org/download/page-4.pdf) on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 28 December 2014.

1. *[Times Square Soundtrack](/source/Times_Square_(soundtrack))* liner notes

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