In 2014, this song was covered by Katy Perry and Kacey Musgraves on a Jepisode of CMT Crossroads.It remains one of the few times the singer Kikki Danielsson was self-involved in songwriting. Kikki Danielsson covered the song on her 1981 album Just Like a Woman, with lyrics written by herself in Swedish as Här är jag igen (translated: "Here I am again").Patti Labelle recorded the song for her 1981 “The Spirit’s In It” album.Randy Bishop recorded the song in 1976, released as a single on A&M Records.This version was released before Parton's. Thomas recorded the song for his self-titled 1977 album. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. The song has sold 271,000 digital copies in the United States as of February 2019 since becoming available for digital download. It earned Parton the award for "Best Female Country Vocal Performance" at the Grammy Awards. The single spent five weeks at the top of the U.S Billboard country charts and reached number three on the U.S. "Here You Come Again" was the centerpiece of Parton's pop crossover in the late 1970s. The song moves at a swinging tempo of 106 beats per minute in common time, with Parton's vocals ranging from G ♭ 3 to D 5. The first two verses are set in G ♭ major, followed by A major for the first bridge, G major for the third verse, B ♭ major for the second bridge, and finally A ♭ major for the last verse and outro. It was like her life sentence was reprieved." "She wanted people to be able to hear the steel guitar, so if someone said it isn't country, she could say it and prove it," Klein told journalist Tom Roland. Thomas's recently released self-titled album, reported that Parton had begged him to add a steel guitar to avoid sounding too pop, and he called in Al Perkins to fill that role. Her producer, Gary Klein, who had heard the song on B.J. The songwriting duo originally composed "Here You Come Again" in 1975 as a potential comeback hit for Brenda Lee, but when Lee decided not to record it, the song made its way to Parton, who was looking for something to broaden her appeal. The song was composed by Mann and Weil, and it was a rare example of a Parton hit that she did not write herself.