Anybody Seen My Baby?

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“Anybody Seen My Baby?”
Single by Rolling Stones from the album Bridges to Babylon
Released	September 22, 1997
Format	CD
Recorded	March - July, 1997
Genre	Rock
Length	4 min 31 s
Label	Virgin
Writer(s)	Jagger/Richards/lang/Mink
Producer	Don Was, The Dust Brothers & The Glimmer Twins
Rolling Stones singles chronology
"Like a Rolling Stone" (1995) "Anybody Seen My Baby?" (1997) "Saint of Me" (1998)

"Anybody Seen My Baby?" is a song by the English rock band The Rolling Stones featured on their 1997 album Bridges to Babylon.

Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, the song also carries writing credits for k.d. lang and Ben Mink. The song is known for its chorus, which sounds strikingly similar to lang's 1992 hit song "Constant Craving". Though claiming to have never heard the song before, Jagger and Richards ended up giving lang credit, along with her co-writer Mink, for the song in order to avoid any possible lawsuits. Afterwards, lang said she was "completely honored and flattered" by receiving the songwriting credit.

"Anybody Seen My Baby?" is a typical song from the Bridges to Babylon-era Stones. It features wide-ranging inspirations, including sampling of hip-hop artist Biz Markie, making it one of the few songs by The Rolling Stones to include sampling (Bridges to Babylon is the only Rolling Stones album to include sampling). Bass and keyboards on the song is performed by Jamie Muhoberac while Waddy Wachtel performs acoustic guitar. The song has a distinctive R&B feel, driven by Muhoberac's bass. Jagger, Richards, and Wachtel perform electric guitars.

The song was a worldwide hit in 1997, reaching Top 20 in Europe and #3 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks. Angelina Jolie appears in the video as a stripper who leaves mid-performance to wander New York City.

"Anybody Seen My Baby?" would go on to be the only track from Bridges to Babylon to appear on the Stones' 2002 career retrospective Forty Licks.

v • d • e The Rolling Stones singles Decca/London singles 1963: Come On, I Wanna Be Your Man • 1964: Not Fade Away, It's All Over Now, Tell Me, Time Is on My Side, Little Red Rooster, Heart of Stone • 1965: The Last Time / Play with Fire, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, Get off of My Cloud, As Tears Go By • 1966: 19th Nervous Breakdown, Paint It, Black, Mother's Little Helper / Lady Jane, Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow? • 1967: Let's Spend the Night Together / Ruby Tuesday, We Love You / Dandelion, In Another Land, She's a Rainbow • 1968: Jumpin' Jack Flash, Street Fighting Man • 1969: Honky Tonk Women • Rolling Stones/ Atlantic singles 1971: Brown Sugar, Wild Horses • 1972: Tumbling Dice, Happy • 1973: Angie, Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) • 1974: It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It), Ain't Too Proud to Beg • 1976: Fool to Cry, Hot Stuff • Rolling Stones/Virgin singles 1978: Miss You, Beast of Burden, Respectable, Shattered • 1980: Emotional Rescue, She's So Cold • 1981: Start Me Up, Waiting on a Friend • 1982: Hang Fire, Going to a Go-Go (live), Time Is on My Side (live) • 1983: Undercover of the Night • 1984: She Was Hot • 1986: Harlem Shuffle, One Hit (to the Body) • 1989: Mixed Emotions, Rock and a Hard Place • 1990: Almost Hear You Sigh, Terrifying • 1991: Highwire, Ruby Tuesday (live) • Virgin singles 1994: Love Is Strong, You Got Me Rocking, Out of Tears • 1995: I Go Wild • 1997: Anybody Seen My Baby? • 1998: Saint of Me, Out of Control • 2002: Don't Stop, Sympathy for the Devil (remix) • 2005: Streets of Love / Rough Justice, Rain Fall Down • 2006: Biggest Mistake •