David Hasselhoff did not write that song. It is a cover tune of an awful old '70's number.

Hasselhoff.... jeezzuz... Bad enough in the original by Björn Skifs (swede) from '74. For some reason the song struck big in the US where the group went by the name Blue Swede.

Hmmm, seems that wasn't the real original, but a remake of a song by a B.J Thomas from 1969 - according to this site

/Michael