R. Dean Taylor – “Indiana Wants Me”

“Indiana Wants Me” was a hit for Canadian-born Motown artist and songwriter R. Dean Taylor in 1970, going to Number One in his native Canada, No. 2 in the UK and reaching No. 5 in the United States on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

In addition to his own moderate success as an artist in his own right, Taylor wrote or co-wrote and co-produced hits for such classic Motown acts as Diana Ross and the Supremes, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Gladys Knight and the Pips or Marvin Gaye.

I’ll be honest and tell you that until now his name meant nothing to me, but the chorus of that song is as familiar now as it was 40 years ago.

In fact, every time I think of or hear the name of my niece’s baby daughter in Australia, those lines come back to me:

“Indiana wants me, Lord I can’t go back there…”

So here it is, “Indiana Wants Me”, the original single:

Unlike the protagonist in the song, we can go to Indiana any time we like. 🙂

Paul

Tags: Diana Ross and the Supremes, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Indiana Wants Me, Marvin Gaye, Motown, Music of the Seventies, R. Dean Taylor, The Four Tops, The Temptations

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