| "When Something Is Wrong with My Baby" | ||||
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| Single by Sam & Dave | ||||
| B-side | "Small Portion of Your Love" | |||
| Released | 1967 | |||
| Format | 7", 45rpm | |||
| Recorded | 1967 | |||
| Genre | Soul | |||
| Length | 3:17 | |||
| Label | Stax/Atlantic S-210 |
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| Writer(s) | Isaac Hayes, David Porter | |||
| Producer | Isaac Hayes David Porter Booker T. & the MG's |
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"When Something Is Wrong with My Baby" is a popular hit song, a soul ballad, written by Isaac Hayes and David Porter, sung by Sam & Dave, and first released in 1967 by Stax Records.[1][2]
The song was covered by Hall & Oates with David Ruffin and Eddie Kendrick of the Temptations at their Apollo Theatre concert in New York City 1985; Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville as a duet in 1989 for the album "Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind", Johnny Gill on his 1983 self-titled debut album, and again by Patti LaBelle and Travis Tritt in 1994. In Australia, the song was also covered by John Farnham and Jimmy Barnes at the middle of 1991. It has also been covered by the Dutch singer Herman Brood. Guy Sebastian sung the song in a duet with Jimmy Barnes and original Stax band Booker T. & the MG's in Sydney during the Memphis Tour Concert (Friday, 7 March 2008).