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Best Viewed With GFS!Baby I'm Yours (Barbara Lewis song)
| "Baby I'm Yours" | ||||
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| Single by Barbara Lewis | ||||
| from the album Baby I'm Yours | ||||
| B-side | "I Say Love" | |||
| Released | 1965 | |||
| Format | 7" single | |||
| Genre | R&B | |||
| Length | 2:30 | |||
| Label | Atlantic | |||
| Writer(s) | Van McCoy | |||
| Producer | Bert Berns | |||
| Barbara Lewis singles chronology | ||||
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| "Baby I'm Yours" | ||||
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| Single by Peter and Gordon | ||||
| from the album Lady Godiva | ||||
| B-side | "When The Black Of Your Eyes Turns To Grey" | |||
| Released | 1965 | |||
| Recorded | Abbey Road Studios | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 2:39 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Writer(s) | Van McCoy | |||
| Producer | Norman Newell | |||
| Peter and Gordon singles chronology | ||||
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| "Baby I'm Yours" | ||||
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| Single by Cass Elliot | ||||
| from the album Cass Elliot | ||||
| B-side | "Cherries Jubilee" | |||
| Released | February 1972 | |||
| Recorded | 1971 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 2:28 | |||
| Label | RCA | |||
| Writer(s) | Van McCoy | |||
| Producer | Lewis Merenstein | |||
| Cass Elliot singles chronology | ||||
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| "Baby I'm Yours" | ||||
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| Single by Linda Lewis | ||||
| B-side | "The Other Side" | |||
| Released | 1976 | |||
| Recorded | Media Sound, NYC | |||
| Genre | Disco | |||
| Length | 3:37 | |||
| Label | Arista | |||
| Writer(s) | Van McCoy | |||
| Producer | Bert DeCoteaux, Tony Silvester | |||
| Linda Lewis singles chronology | ||||
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| "Baby I'm Yours" | ||||
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| Single by Cher | ||||
| from the album Mermaids Soundtrack | ||||
| Released | 1990 | |||
| Recorded | 1990 | |||
| Genre | Pop rock | |||
| Length | 3:19 | |||
| Label | Geffen | |||
| Writer(s) | Van McCoy | |||
| Producer | Peter Asher | |||
| Cher European singles chronology | ||||
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"Baby I'm Yours" is a song written by Van McCoy which was a hit for Barbara Lewis in 1965.
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Barbara Lewis version
Van McCoy wrote "Baby I'm Yours" while working as a staff writer for April-Blackwood Music, the publishing arm of Columbia Records: however the first evident recording of the song was made by Atlantic artist Barbara Lewis with Bert Berns producing the track in a New York City recording session which featured Van McCoy and Kendra Spotswood on background vocals. Released in July 1965, Lewis' "Baby I'm Yours" reached reach #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 that August, also reaching #5 R&B charts. the Personnel on the Barbara Lewis recording included Clark Terry and Dud Bascomb on trumpets, Jimmy Cleveland and Tony Studd on trombones, Frank Haywood Henry on baritone sax, Charlie Brown on tenor sax, Paul Griffith on Piano, Bill Suyker on Guitar, Jimmy Lewis on bass, and Gary Chester on Drums
UK single versions
The first UK recording of "Baby, I'm Yours" was made by the Paramounts at Abbey Road Studio in the summer of 1965: however the track went unreleased until their 1998 compilation release The Paramounts at Abbey Road 1963 to 1970 while a higher-profile act also on the Columbia [UK]1 roster: Peter and Gordon, had the UK hit version of "Baby, I'm Yours", released October 15 1965 to reach #19 UK, the Peter and Gordon version of "Baby, I'm Yours" having been recorded in an Abbey Road session produced by Norman Newell and featuring Big Jim Sullivan on guitar,1
"Baby I'm Yours" is unique among Peter and Gordon singles as their sole collaboration with arranger Tony Osborne who took over from the duo's original regular collaborator Geoff Love (subsequent to "Baby I'm Yours" Peter and Gordon regularly collaborated with arranger/conductor Bob Leaper). Also in deference to the US success of the Barbara Lewis version, Capitol Records - Peter and Gordon's US label of release - did not issue the duo's "Baby I'm Yours" single, the Peter and Gordon US single release concurrent with their UK "Baby I'm Yours" single release being "Don't Pity Me" a composition by the duo which peaked at #83. "Baby I'm Yours" was thus the first Peter and Gordon UK single not be released concurrently in the US, a situation which would occur one more time, specifically with Peter and Gordon's April 1968 UK single release "I Feel Like Going Out".
In May of 1976 Linda Lewis reached #33 UK with a disco remake of "Baby, I'm Yours".
In 2006 "Baby I'm Yours" served as the B-side of Arctic Monkeys' UK hit "Leave Before the Lights Come On" (#4); that version featured the 747's with shared vocals by Arctic Monkeys' lead singer Alex Turner and the 747s' lead singer Oisin Leech.
- 1The Paramounts recorded for Parlophone a subsidiary of Columbia [UK]. Columbia [UK] should not be confused with the unrelated American company Columbia Records for whose publishing arm "Baby, I'm Yours" was written.
Cher version
Background
Cher remade "Baby I'm Yours" for the soundtrack of her 1990 film vehicle Mermaids; her version - arranged to replicate Barbara Lewis' hit and produced by Peter Asher who as a member of Peter and Gordon had had the UK hit of "Baby I'm Yours" - was not featured in the film but was elected as the lead single from the soundtrack for release in the UK and Europe after the US single release "The Shoop Shoop Song" - which as remade by Cher had played under the film's closing credits - fell short of the Billboard Top Thirty. "Baby I'm Yours" failed as a single - its only apparent charting was in the UK at #89 - but it was decided to follow it up with the single release of "The Shoop Shoop Song" in the spring of 1991 and this single - which utilized "Baby I'm Yours" as B-side - spent five weeks at #1 in the UK and achieved Top Ten status in several European countries as well as Australia and New Zealand; click for chart specifics. (Coincidentally the precedent single to Linda Lewis 1976 UK hit remake of "Baby I'm Yours" had been the first major UK hit version of "The Shoop Shoop Song", entitled "It's in His Kiss".)
Formats and track listings
"Baby I'm Yours" European CD single
- Baby I'm Yours
- Hard Enough Getting Over You
- Just Like Jesse James
"Baby I'm Yours" European 7" single
- A: Baby I'm Yours
- B: Hard Enough Getting Over You
Other versions
"Baby I'm Yours" has never had a major pop remake in the US but has reached the C&W Top 40 three times via remakes by Jody Miller (#5 in 1971), Debby Boone (#33 in 1978) and Tanya Tucker (#22 in 1983), with Miller and Boone's remakes reaching the lower Pop charts at respectively #91 and #74.1
The song's composer Van McCoy produced a recording of "Baby, I'm Yours" by Chris Bartley was a non-charting 1968 single release.
Cass Elliot's remake of "Baby I'm Yours" was released in February 1972 at the same time as its parent album Cass Elliot produced by Lewis Merenstein and arranged/conducted by Benny Golson. The album was Elliot's debut for RCA Victor who insisted on "Baby I'm Yours" release as the lead single over Elliott and Merenstein's choice: "That Song" a new song by Bill Dean ("That Song" was a single release in April 1972; neither track charted).2
"Baby I'm Yours" has also been recorded by Cilla Black (album Cilla Sings a Rainbow), Petula Clark, Jack Jones, KC and the Sunshine Band (album The Painter), Diane Marino,2 Maureen McGovern (as the title track of her 1992 covers album), Dianne Steinberg, Bobby Vee (in medley with "Make It Easy on Yourself"), and Bobby Vinton. In 1996, Phoebe Snow and Avenue Blue (featuring Jeff Golub) released their version on their album Naked City.
- 1Debby Boone's version of "Baby I'm Yours" was a double-sided Pop chart entrant in tandem with "God Knows".
- 2 Fiegel, Eddi. Dream a Little Dream of Me: the Life of "Mama" Cass Elliot (London: Sidgwick & Jackson. 2005. ISBN 0-283-07331-4) p. 336.
Charts
| Barbara Lewis (1965) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 11 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles | 5 |
| Peter & Gordon (1965) | Peak position |
| UK Singles Chart | 19 |
| Jody Miller (1971) | Peak position |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 91 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles | 5 |
| U.S. Billboard Easy Listening | 21 |
| Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 8 |
| Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks | 25 |
| Linda Lewis (1976) | Peak position |
| UK Singles Chart | 33 |
| Debby Boone (1978) | Peak position |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 74 |
| U.S. Billboard Easy Listening | 18 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles | 33 |
| Tanya Tucker (1983) | Peak position |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles | 22 |
| Cher (1990) | Peak position |
| UK Singles Chart | 89 |
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