"You Needed Me" is a song written by Randy Goodrum. It was a number one single in the United States in 1978 for Canadian singer Anne Murray. The song, included on her 1978 album Let's Keep It That Way, was also a top-five country single and won Song of the Year at the Academy of Country Music awards. The song won Murray the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 21st Grammy Awards, the first to be awarded to a Canadian artist. Stewie Griffin sings "You Needed Me" to Brian and an audience of his toys in "Chris Cross" in a successful effort to win Brian over to Anne's music.