"I'm the One You Need" is a song by American singer-songwriter Jody Watley, released in February 1992 by MCA Records as the second single from her third album, Affairs of the Heart (1991).[1] Co-written by Watley with house music pioneer, David Morales and Alec Shantzis, the song constitutes Watley's initial foray into house music (though its "Affairs of the Heart" predecessor, "I Want You", boasted a house version). "I'm the One You Need" was Watley's seventh top 20 pop single in the US, and sixth top five dance single, charting at number 19 on the Billboard Hot 100, and number three on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play charts, respectively.[2] The accompanying music video features a topless Watley reciting the song's spoken word intro, and then performing the rest of the song with her backup band.
"I'm the One You Need" is often credited with introducing DJ David Morales' then-darker sound to the worldwide remixing community. Indeed, British DJ, John Digweed re-edited [3] the Morales' “Dead Zone” version of the song for its inclusion on his [Digweed] edition of the Azuli Records compilation, Choice - A Collection of classics,[4] and cited it as an influence on the UK DJing community in the compilation's liner notes:
This track was really hard to get hold of at the time, but on one of my trips to Chicago, Derrick Carter gave me a copy of it - it's one of Morales' best mixes. It had a big influence on the UK producers who really picked up on Morales' dark hypnotic sound.[5]
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