Baby Baby
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| "Baby Baby" | ||
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| Single by Amy Grant | ||
| from the album Heart in Motion | ||
| Released | 1991 | |
| Format | 7" single, Cassette single, Promotional single, CD single | |
| Genre | CCM, Adult Contemporary, Pop | |
| Length | 3:57 | |
| Label | A&M Records | |
| Writer(s) | Amy Grant, Keith Thomas | |
| Producer(s) | Brown Bannister | |
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| Amy Grant singles chronology | ||
| Lead Me On (1988) |
Baby Baby (1991) |
Every Heartbeat (1991) |
"Baby Baby" is a 1991 single by Christian music and pop music singer Amy Grant. It was released as the first single from the Heart In Motion album.
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[edit] Official versions
[edit] Audio versions
- Original album version (3:59), available on the album Heart In Motion
- 7" Heart In Motion mix
- 12" Heart In Motion mix
- 7" No Getting Over You mix
- 12" No Getting Over You mix
- iTunes Originals Version (acoustic rendition recorded in studio and released on 2005 iTunes-exclusive album)
- Time Again Live Version (live concert recording from the 2006 Time Again...Amy Grant Live album)
[edit] Video versions
- Original album version, available on the 1992 VHS The Heart In Motion Video Collection and 2004 DVD Greatest Videos 1986-2004
- Live performance, available on the 2006 DVD Time Again...Amy Grant Live
[edit] Singles
[edit] U.S. retail CD single
- "Baby Baby" (7" Heart In Motion mix)
- "Baby Baby" (12" Heart In Motion mix)
- "Lead Me On" (LP version)
[edit] U.S. promotional CD single
- "Baby Baby" (LP version)
- "Baby Baby" (7" No Getting Over You mix)
- "Baby Baby" (7" Heart In Motion mix)
- "Baby Baby" (12" No Getting Over You mix)
- "Baby Baby" (12" Heart In Motion mix)
[edit] UK retail CD single
- "Baby Baby" (No Getting Over You mix)
- "Baby Baby" (Heart In Motion mix)
- "Lead Me On"
[edit] Background
During the 1980s, Amy Grant was a very popular Christian singer. In 1985, she also made a successful attempt to cross over onto mainstream charts. She achieved this with the Top 40 album Unguarded and the Top 40 single "Find a Way." She scored several other hits in Christian and mainstream radio off the album. Unguarded became her second most successful album up to that point, and it was her fastest-selling. The next year, she scored her first #1 pop song with "The Next Time I Fall", a duet with Chicago's Peter Cetera. But soon after, her marriage began to strain, and she took time off from recording to work things out and start a family.
In 1988 she returned to music with the album Lead Me On. It was well-received critically, and it was a success with the Christian music market as well. The three singles released to mainstream radio from the album had each flourished on Christian radio but found only modest success on the pop charts, and the album itself only reached number seventy-one on the Billboard 200 (despite going #1 on the Christian charts). In 1989, Grant began writing songs for a pop album. It was completed the following year, and the lead-off single from the album, "Baby Baby," was released in February 1991.
[edit] Chart success
"Baby Baby," which was originally written for Grant's six-month old daughter Millie, was an enormous success on secular charts, reaching the top spot on both the pop and adult contemporary charts, and was also a Top 40 dance hit. It was her first (and last) Top Ten single in Britain, where it reached number two. Like Unguarded six years before, however, the album put off some of her longtime Christian fans for "crossing over." Despite this, "Baby Baby" went on to become her most successful single and one of the most successful singles of 1991.
[edit] Music sample
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[edit] Trivia
- The song was covered by The Swirling Eddies in 1996 on their CD Sacred Cows.
- "Baby Baby" was the first Christian song to top the Billboard Hot 100, and was the first of Amy Grant's singles to reach the Hot 100 without receiving significant Christian radio airplay (aside from her #1 1986 duet with Peter Cetera, "The Next Time I Fall").
- The 2004 film, "Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle" features "Baby Baby" as part of its diegetic soundtrack.
- A cover of "Baby Baby" by Alana D plays in the 2005 film "Mr. & Mrs. Smith".
- Grant performed the song at the Grammys and notably brought her daughter, Millie (for whom the song was written), out onto stage for the dance number.
- Grant appeared on "Monday Night Football" in a promotional music video for "Baby Baby" that featured new lyrics custom-made for the night's game.
- The song is referenced in Grant's Got Milk? ad.
- Though the line "Stop for a minute" does repeatedly occur in the song's chorus, it is not the song's title (despite popular misconception).
- Grant has said that though an artist can never be sure that a song will win over the public, she and her team had a very good feeling about the "catchy" nature of "Baby Baby" from the moment she wrote it.
- One of the aspects of "Baby Baby" that her more conservative Christian fans found offensive was the song's video clip, which featured Grant singing the song to a man portraying her boyfriend (actor/model Jme Stein, who would also star in the video for her fourth single from Heart In Motion, "Good For Me"). In The Billboard Book of Number One Adult Contemporary Hits by Wesley Hyatt, Grant is quoted as saying her original concept for the song's video involved many infants in one room, but that her record company nixed the idea and came up with the more romantic angle.
- When Grant performed "Baby Baby" at the 1992 Grammy Awards ceremony, her young daughter Millie, for whom she had written the song, walked onstage toward her mother toward the end of the performance. "Baby Baby" received nominations for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Record of the Year, and Song of the Year, but lost in all three categories.
[edit] Charts
[edit] US
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
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| 1991 | "Baby Baby" | Adult Contemporary | 1 (3 weeks) |
| 1991 | "Baby Baby" | Billboard Hot 100 | 1 (2 weeks) |
| 1991 | "Baby Baby" | Hot Dance Music/Club Play | 23 |
[edit] UK
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
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| 1991 | "Baby Baby" | UK Singles Chart | 2 |
[edit] Other songs titled "Baby Baby"
"Baby Baby" is also the title of at least two other songs unrelated to Amy Grant's hit. Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers had a top ten hit in the United Kingdom in 1957 with a different song titled "Baby Baby." Another song titled "Baby Baby" was an international hit in 1995 for the Italian dance outfit Corona, reaching number five in the UK and number 57 pop and number five dance in the USA.
| Preceded by "You're in Love" by Wilson Phillips |
Billboard Hot 100 number one single April 27, 1991- May 4, 1991 |
Succeeded by "Joyride" by Roxette |
