There Goes My Baby (song)
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| Single by The Drifters | ||
| Released | 1959 | |
| Format | 7" single | |
| Genre | Soul, R&B | |
| Label | Atlantic | |
| Writer(s) | Benjamin Nelson, Lover Patterson, George Treadwell | |
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| Single by Donna Summer from the album Cats Without Claws |
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| B-side | Maybe It's Over | ||||
| Released | 1984 | ||||
| Format | 7" single, 12" single | ||||
| Genre | Pop, Soul, R&B | ||||
| Label | Geffen (U.S.) | ||||
| Writer(s) | Benjamin Nelson, Lover Patterson, George Treadwell | ||||
| Producer | Michael Omartian | ||||
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"There Goes My Baby" is a song written by Ben E. King and the songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller for The Drifters, Ben E. King does lead. They used a different song structure than they had in their previous successes with Clyde McPhatter. The combination of new style and new group fit and the song made the pop Top Ten Charts in the summer of 1959 when it was released by Atlantic Records. This song was used in the classic baseball movie "The Sandlot."[1]
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[edit] Song
The lyrics are loosely structured, almost free form at a time when rhyming lines were mandatory. The accompaniment features a violin section playing saxophone-like riffs in rock and roll style. The lead voice is in high gospel-style.[1][2]
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- (There goes my baby) Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh
- (There goes my baby) Yeah, yeah, yeah,yeah
- (There goes my baby) Whoa-oh-oh-oh
- (There she goes) Yeah! (There she goes)
[edit] Legacy
This recording introduced the idea of using strings and elaborate production values on an R&B recording to enhance the emotional power of black music. This pointed the way to the coming era of soul music as the popularity of the doo-wop vocal groups peaked and faded. Phil Spector studied this production model under Leiber and Stoller, working on The Drifters records.[3]
The song ranked 193 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list.
[edit] Donna Summer version
Donna Summer's version of "There Goes My Baby" was the first single from her 1984 Cats Without Claws album. At this time Summer had a contract with Geffen Records who had refused to release much of her work (including her previous album, which in the end had been released by Mercury Records). After the success of that album, Geffen hired its producer, Michael Omartian to produce Summer's new album. This version of the song features an electro-pop sound and was accompanied by a high-quality promotional video featuring Donna and husband Bruce Sudano as a down-on-their-luck couple at the outbreak of World War 2.
[edit] Other cover versions, appearances in other media
- The Walker Brothers recorded a version of the song for their debut album, Take It Easy With The Walker Brothers in 1965.
- A 1998 cover by Trisha Yearwood reached #93 on the Hot 100 and #2 on the country charts.
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b Gillett, Charlie (1996). The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll, (2nd Ed.), New York, N.Y.: Da Capo Press, p. 192-194. ISBN 0-306-80683-5.
- ^ The Drifters Lyrics - There Goes My Baby Lyrics. Retrieved on 2006-11-27.
- ^ Holly George-Warren &, Anthony Decurtis (Eds.) (1976). The RollingStone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll, 3rd Edition, New York: Random House, p. 148-149. ISBN 0-679-73728-6.
