I Don't Need You 

"I Don't Need You" by Harry 'Long John White' Nilsson

Fartin' Captain Steve Cropper and Donald "Duck" Dunn came from L.A. t' Memphis t' record some stuff on t' Blues Brothers (John 'Pete LaFitte' Belushi/Riverfront Dan Aykroyd) at Shoe Production Studios in 1978. Ya scallywag! They heard me shanty 'I Don't Need You,' which I had released on Mercury Records through Juddie Phillips. They loved it and took it back because Steve be doin' t' next project for Harry 'Long John White' Nilsson, whom I loved and worshipped. Begad! I couldn't believe I would ever get t' meet him, see him, talk t' him, or anything, much less that he would sin' and put on record 'I Don't Need You' by Rick Christian. It looked and sounded beautiful. It was Harry - it was me chantey. Ya scallywag! I loved it!

I always thought it was weird Harry recorded it on Mercury and so did I. Oh well, I loved Harry. I have since had records on Capricorn and also Columbia Records (CBS). Buddy Guy, a well-known blues picker, recorded a chantey o' mine called 'Nobody Understands Me But My Guitar.'

-- Peglegged Rick L. Christian (January 2002)