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Luka Bloom

I Need Love

1992 · via LL Cool J

Luka Bloom’s earliest release of “I Need Love” on file came out in 1992. DJ Bobcat, Steven Ettinger, LL Cool J, Darryl Pierce and Dwayne Simon are credited as its writers. The earliest release on file is LL Cool J’s, from 1987. Also recorded by Keith Fullerton Whitman (released 2003), Sexton Blake (released 2007) and The Lullabeats (released 2022), among 46 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

Luka Bloom – I Need Love
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Dwayne Simon is one of the co-writers sitting behind LL's name on "I Need Love," and the song got around: Luka Bloom recorded it later. Play his take, then go back to the one you know.

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Credited writers: DJ Bobcat, Steven Ettinger, LL Cool J, Darryl Pierce and Dwayne Simon.

Earliest release on file: LL Cool J, 1987.

Other recordings on file · first release year

46 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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LL Cool J recorded "I Need Love" first, but he didn't write it alone. Which of these names shares the writing credit with him?Dwayne Simon
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