Anytime You Need A Friend

Written and produced by Mariah Carey and Walter Afanasieff for her 1993 album Music Box, "Anytime You Need a Friend" was released in May 1994 as the album's fifth and final single. The gospel-infused song reached number one in Finland and the top ten in Canada, Iceland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Panama, and the United Kingdom. The music video, filmed in black-and-white by Danielle Federici in New York during summer 1994, features Carey singing by a large church choir and marks her first image makeover with a straightened hairstyle.