Ruby Baby

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"Ruby Baby" is a song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. It was originally recorded by The Drifters and was a major R&B hit for them in 1956. It later became a top ten Billboard Hot 100 hit when Dion released his remake as a single in 1963.

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• It became a number one country hit when released by Billy "Crash" Craddock on the album Rub It In in 1974.
• The song has been recorded by several other artists, including The Beach Boys. This version was released on the band's 1993 box set Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of The Beach Boys as an outtake from the 1965 Beach Boys' Party! album.
• Björk Guðmundsdóttir & Tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar
• Ronnie Hawkins and The Hawks
• Del Shannon
• Tony Sheridan
• Donald Fagen, of Steely Dan, also recorded a version on his 1982 solo album, The Nightfly.
• Korean singer BoA uses elements of this song in her single, "Rock with You".

Preceded by "The Door" by George Jones

Billboard Hot Country Singles number one single by Billy "Crash" Craddock January 11, 1975

Succeeded by "Kentucky Gambler" by Merle Haggard