Normie Rowe - Born To Be By Your Side (1968)

Brenda Lee - Born To Be By Your Side (1967)

(Jerry Reid Hubbard* [Jerry Reed])
 USA
Original version

Single on Decca, released on Brunswick in Britain. Brenda Lee (b. 1944) started out young as a country singer but at 15 she had a hit with Sweet Nothin's (1960, #4 USA), the first of twelve Top 10 pop hits that included the #1s I'm Sorry and I Want To Be Wanted (both 1960). After taking a career break from 1967, she made a successful return to country music in the 70s, working out of Nashville.

The References in popular culture section in Wikipedia's Brenda Lee article gives some idea of her stature in pop history:

❝ Chuck Berry wrote a song about Lee on the album St. Louis to Liverpool. She was also immortalized in Golden Earring's 1973 hit Radar Love: Radio's playing some forgotten song/Brenda Lee's 'Coming on Strong'. She was also remembered as a heroine to Burton Cummings on his 1978 album in the song Dream of a Child including the lines When I was a child, dreamed that Elvis Presley, was standing on the corner, kissing Brenda Lee, and in the closing line, I love Brenda Lee/Brenda Lee loves me/yeah…. Ben Vaughn wrote and released I'm Sorry (But So Is Brenda Lee) (1985) which has been covered by Marshall Crenshaw. Lee is also referenced in Smokey and the Bandit ❞

Image: Brenda Lee in 1962, © Peter Denton, (cropped; original via Wikipedia).

The writer:

Nashville singer-singwriter and actor Jerry Reed (1937-2008, full name Jerry Reid Hubbard) also wrote Brenda Lee's That's All You Gotta Do (1960, #6 USA).

Reed charted under his own name in 1971 with Amos Moses (#8 USA) and When You're Hot You're Hot (#9). He wrote and recorded two songs that became better known through Elvis Presley's versions: Guitar Man (1967, #43 USA) and US Male (1968, #28 USA). Reed's own 1967 version of Guitar Man charted at #53.

As an actor Jerry Reed appeared in a number of films and TV series but is perhaps best known for his role as Cledus in Smokey and the Bandit (1977) and its sequels.

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References, further reading:
1. Brenda Lee article at Wikipedia.
2. Jerry Reed biography at Nashville Songwriters Foundation.
3. BrendaLee.com.
4. Detailed Jerrry Reed tribute by Walt Trott at JerryReed.nl.
5. Label shot and release details of UK Brunswick single at 45cat.com; other label shots via this Google Image search result.
6. Hardy & Laing, Encyclopedia of Rock, Vol. 1 (1975) pp.190-191.
7. US Copyright Office. "Born To Be By Your Side" has Copyright No. RE0000670176, 1966: search here.

* Writer credit: Most of Jerry Reed's compositions are listed at US Copyright Office under Jerry Reid Hubbard (Reid with an "i").  Depending on the label or the pressing, such variations of the writer's name as Jerry Reed – Hubbard may be seen.