Every Billboard Hot 100 Single 1970: #443: “Indiana Wants Me”- R. Dean Taylor. September 5, 1970.
- Single: “Indiana Wants Me”- R. Dean Taylor
- Record Company- Rare Earth
- Genre: Pop
- Written by R. Dean Taylor
- Time: 3:00
- B-side:”Love’s Your Name”
- Album- I Think, Therefore I Am
- Grade- B-
- Peaked at #5 15 weeks in Billboard Hot 100.
R.Dean Taylor was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1939. He is a singer songwriter who co-wrote The Supreme’s “Love Child” and The Temptation’s “All I Need.” He had 4 Hot 100 singles- “Indiana Wants Me” was his only Top 40 hit.
Love the sirens at the end of this one!
Oh, gotta be at least a ‘B+” . Great song memory from my early childhood. And wow, a White Canadian guy who has a hit on Motown Records… that didn’t happen everyday!
I give it points for being different.
“If a man ever needed dyin’ he did. No one had the right to say what he said about you.” Such a story in this song!
Catchy tune and quite different for that time. I remember it well. That was back when songs actually told a story.