Joni Mitchell - Help Me (live in London 1974) “Help Me” is a love song written, produced, and performed by Joni Mitchell and released on her 1974 album Court and Spark. The song was recorded with jazz band Tom Scott’s L.A. Express as the backing band. “Help Me” was Mitchell’s biggest hit single, her only Top 10 hit. It peaked at #7 in June 1974 on the Billboard Hot 100, and it hit #1 on the easy listening chart. The song would later be referenced in “The Ballad of Dorothy Parker” by Prince, who