Since I Met You Baby (song)
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| “Since I Met You Baby” | ||
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| Single by Ivory Joe Hunter | ||
| Released | 1956 (U.S.) | |
| Format | 7" | |
| Recorded | 1956 | |
| Genre | rhythm and blues, pop | |
| Length | 2:41 | |
| Label | Atlantic Records | |
| Writer(s) | Ivory Joe Hunter | |
| “Since I Met You Baby” | |||||
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| Single by Sonny James from the album The Astrodome Presents in Person Sonny James |
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| Released | August 1969 (U.S.) | ||||
| Format | 7" | ||||
| Recorded | 1969 | ||||
| Genre | Country | ||||
| Length | 2:48 | ||||
| Label | Capitol Records | ||||
| Writer(s) | Ivory Joe Hunter | ||||
| Producer | George Richey | ||||
| Sonny James singles chronology | |||||
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"Since I Met You Baby" is an American rhythm and blues song written and recorded by pianist Ivory Joe Hunter. The song, which Hunter recorded in 1956, became an American standard, and saw renewed popularity in 1969 when country music artist Sonny James released his hit version.
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[edit] Song background
Hunter had already tasted major success with popular and rhythm and blues audiences with songs such as "I Almost Lost My Mind." He moved to Atlantic Records by 1954, and around that time wrote "Since I Met You Baby."
The song was described by All Music Guide critic Steve Huey as "a masterpiece of smooth, bluesy elegance" and "decidedly removed from the tide of raucous rock & roll sweeping the country." In fact, compared to many of the other uptempo, rock-beat songs of the period, the song was "augmented by a wordless vocal choir that's strongly reminiscent of traditional pop recordings of the period," wrote Huey. A saxophone provided the harmony on the second verse.[1]
"Since I Met You Baby" topped the Billboard magazine Billboard Rhythm and Blues Records chart for three weeks in 1956, and became Hunter's only Billboard Hot 100 entry, stopping at No. 12.
[edit] Cover versions
[edit] Sonny James
Sonny James had major success covering pop standards, both of the present time and of the past, during the 1960s. In 1969 alone, he had reached the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart with two such covers: "Only the Lonely" and "Running Bear."
"Since I Met You Baby" was James' third cover song released during 1969. Supposedly recorded live (the song's introduction and fade out features a cheering audience), the audience was added to James' studio recording. Any audiophile can tell the deception. James took the song to No. 1 on the Hot Country Singles chart that October. His 13th chart-topper overall, the song was his ninth consecutive country No. 1 in an eventual string of 16 straight chart-toppers in as many single releases, dating between 1967 and 1971.
[edit] Other artists
Mindy Carson had a chart version of the song in 1957.
Country-Tejano artist Freddy Fender had a major country hit in the mid-1970s with a cover version of the song.
Countless other artists have recorded "Since I Met You Baby," and they represented a wide range of genres. A partial listing includes Pat Boone, Bill Anderson, Mickey Gilley, Bruce Channel, Sam Cooke, José Feliciano, Narvel Felts, B.B. King, Wanda Jackson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Dean Martin, Lou Rawls and Johnny "Guitar" Watson.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ [1] Huey, Steve, "Since I Met You Baby" at All Music Guide
- ^ [2] All Music Guide — listing for "Since I Met You Baby."
[edit] See also
- Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs: 1944-2005," 2006.
[edit] Succession
| Preceded by "Tall Dark Stranger" by Buck Owens and the Buckaroos |
Billboard Hot Country Singles number one single by Sonny James October 4-October 18, 1969 |
Succeeded by "The Ways to Love a Man" by Tammy Wynette |
