ray stevens wrote help me make it through the night lyrics.
ray stevens wrote help me make it through the night lyrics.
who wrote help me make it through the night lyrics?
ray stevens
"help me make it through the night" is a country music ballad written and composed by kris kristofferson and released on his 1970 album "kristofferson". it was covered later in 1970 by sammi smith, on the album "help me make it through the night". smith's recording of the song remains the most commercially successful and most well-known version in the united states. her recording ranks among the most successful country singles of all time in terms of sales, popularity, and radio airplay. it topped the country singles chart, and was also a crossover hit, reaching number eight on the u.s. pop singles chart. "help me make it through the night" also became smith's signature song. in 1975 the title appeared in the lyrics of paul anka's "i don't like to sleep alone".
help me make it through the night
her first mainstream solo exhibition was in 1991 at richard/bennett gallery in los angeles. titled "portraits from the dingle library", it combined images of her mother, cram, with portraits of iconic figures like george washington, queen elizabeth ii and george foreman as a baby. shortly after this, she created the "paintings of the west" series employing vintage wallpaper and other imagery as her canvas along with a hundred curated drawings of "horses by teenage girls". in "untitled (girls with dresspole)" (1998), dingle’s girls raise a flagpole "dresspole" (a long pole with a dress attached to the top) in a pose reminiscent of the famous photograph of soldiers raising the flag on iwo jima.
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