| "Baby I'm Yours" | ||||
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| Single by Barbara Lewis | ||||
| from the album Baby I'm Yours | ||||
| B-side | "I Say Love" | |||
| Released | 1965 | |||
| Format | 7" single | |||
| Genre | R&B | |||
| Length | 2:30 | |||
| Label | Atlantic | |||
| Writer(s) | Van McCoy | |||
| Producer | Bert Berns | |||
| Barbara Lewis singles chronology | ||||
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| "Baby I'm Yours" | ||||
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| Single by Peter and Gordon | ||||
| from the album Lady Godiva | ||||
| B-side | "When The Black Of Your Eyes Turns To Grey" | |||
| Released | 1965 | |||
| Recorded | Abbey Road Studios | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 2:39 | |||
| Label | Columbia Records | |||
| Producer | Norman Newell | |||
| Peter and Gordon singles chronology | ||||
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| "Baby I'm Yours" | ||||
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| Single by Linda Lewis | ||||
| B-side | "The Other Side" | |||
| Released | 1976 | |||
| Recorded | Media Sound, NYC | |||
| Genre | Disco | |||
| Length | 3:37 | |||
| Label | Arista | |||
| Producer | Bert DeCoteaux, Tony Silvester | |||
| Linda Lewis singles chronology | ||||
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| Single by Cher | ||||
| from the album Mermaids Soundtrack | ||||
| Released | 1990 | |||
| Recorded | 1990 | |||
| Genre | Pop/Rock | |||
| Length | 3:19 | |||
| Label | Geffen Records | |||
| Producer | Peter Asher | |||
| Cher European singles chronology | ||||
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"Baby I'm Yours" is the name of a song written by Van McCoy which was a hit for Barbara Lewis in 1965.
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Van McCoy wrote "Baby I'm Yours" while working as a staff writer for April Blackwood Music, the publishing arm of Columbia Records and it was a Columbia act: Peter and Gordon, who would have the UK hit version of the song in the fall of 1965; produced by Norman Newell the track was recorded in an Abbey Road Studio session which featured Big Jim Sullivan on guitar.[1] However the first evident recording of "Baby I'm Yours" was made by Atlantic artist Barbara Lewis; Bert Berns produced this version in a New York City recording session which featured Van McCoy and Kendra Spotswood on background vocals. Released in July 1965, Lewis' "Baby I'm Yours" reached reach #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 that August also reaching #5 R&B charts. The song was also featured on 1965 single releases by the Olympics and Dee Dee Warwick.
"Baby I'm Yours" has never had a major Pop hit remake in the US but has reached the C&W Top 40 three times via remakes by Jody Miller (#5 in 1971), Debby Boone (#33 in 1978) and Tanya Tucker (#22 in 1983), with Miller and Boone's remakes reaching the lower Pop charts at respectively #91 and #74.1 (Steve Wariner's C&W hit "Baby I'm Yours" - #2 in 1988 - is a Wariner original written with Guy Clark and has no connection with the Van McCoy song. Also, the R&B group Shai had a hit in 1993 with yet another different song with the same title.)
Cass Elliot's remake of "Baby I'm Yours" was released in February 1972 at the same time as its parent album Cass Elliot produced by Lewis Merenstein and arranged/conducted by Benny Golson. The album was Elliot's debut for RCA Victor who insisted on "Baby I'm Yours" release as the lead single over Elliott and Merenstein's choice: "That Song" a new song by Bill Dean ("That Song" was a single release in April 1972; neither track charted).2
In the UK, Linda Lewis hit #33 with a disco remake of "Baby I'm Yours" in 1976.
Cher remade "Baby I'm Yours" for the soundtrack of her 1990 film vehicle Mermaids; her version - arranged to replicate Barbara Lewis' hit and produced by Peter Asher who as a member of Peter and Gordon had had the UK hit of "Baby I'm Yours" - was not featured in the film but was elected as the lead single from the soundtrack for release in the UK and Europe after the US single release "The Shoop Shoop Song" - which as remade by Cher had played under the film's closing credits - fell short of the Billboard Top Thirty. "Baby I'm Yours" failed as a single - its only apparent charting was in the UK at #89 - but it was decided to follow it up with the single release of "The Shoop Shoop Song" in the spring of 1991 and this single - which utilized "Baby I'm Yours" as B-side - spent five weeks at #1 in the UK and achieved Top Ten status in several European countries as well as Australia and New Zealand; click for chart specifics. (Coincidentally the precedent single to Linda Lewis' "Baby I'm Yours" had been the first major UK hit version of "The Shoop Shoop Song", entitled "It's in His Kiss".)
In 2006 "Baby I'm Yours" served as the B-side of Arctic Monkeys' UK hit "Leave Before the Lights Come On" (#4); that version featured the 747's with shared vocals by Arctic Monkeys' lead singer Alex Turner and the 747s' lead singer Oisin Leech.
"Baby I'm Yours" has also been recorded by Cilla Black, Petula Clark, Jack Jones, Maureen McGovern (as the title track of her 1992 covers album), the Paramounts, Dianne Steinberg, Bobby Vee (in medley with "Make It Easy on Yourself"), Bobby Vinton. In 1996, Phoebe Snow and Avenue Blue (featuring Jeff Golub) released their version on their album Naked City.
"Baby I'm Yours" European CD single
"Baby I'm Yours" European 7" single
| Barbara Lewis (1965) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 11 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles | 5 |
| Peter & Gordon (1965) | Peak position |
| UK Singles Chart | 19 |
| Jody Miller (1971) | Peak position |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 91 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles | 5 |
| U.S. Billboard Easy Listening | 21 |
| Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 8 |
| Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks | 25 |
| Linda Lewis (1976) | Peak position |
| UK Singles Chart | 33 |
| Debby Boone (1978) | Peak position |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 74 |
| U.S. Billboard Easy Listening | 18 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles | 33 |
| Tanya Tucker (1983) | Peak position |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles | 22 |
| Cher (1990) | Peak position |
| UK Singles Chart | 89 |
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