Pat Benatar--I Need A Lover (1979)

    By the time of Pat Benatar's first album in 1979, she was still a relative newcomer to rock. She grew up studying classical music and theater with the initial goal of going to Jullard. Instead, she married and worked as a bank teller for several years. Seeing Liza Minnelli in concert inspired her to give music another try, and over the next several years sang and performed at different venues in Virgina, then in New York after her husband's discharge (he was in the army). She never starting singing in a rock style until 1975 and a few years later started wearing her catsuit that would soon become her trademark. She was signed to Chrysails records in 1979 and soon released her debut, "In the Heat of the Night".
     "I Need A Lover" was written by another up and comer known by his stage name of Johnny Cougar (later known by his real name, John Mellencamp) and was on his debut album, "A Biography" in 1978 which was not released in the states, and again on his first album stateside, "John Cougar".