Baby Won't You Please Come Home

"Baby Won't You Please Come Home"
Song by Charles Warfield and Clarence Williams
Published	1919
Genre	Blues
Writer	Charles Warfield, Clarence Williams
Language	English

"Baby Won't You Please Come Home" is a blues song written by Charles Warfield and Clarence Williams in 1919. The song's authorship is disputed; Warfield claims that he was the sole composer of the song.^[1]

The song has been covered by a large number of musicians and has become a jazz standard. The first hit version was Bessie Smith's 1923 recording, which stayed on four weeks on the charts peaking at #6.^[2]

Renditions

Bessie Smith (1923)
Clarence Williams' Blue Five (1927)
George Thomas with McKinney's Cotton Pickers (1930)
The Mills Brothers (1932)
Django Reinhardt (1937)
Lionel Hampton (1938)
Louis Armstrong (1939)
Count Basie Orchestra(1944)
Benny Goodman and His Orchestra (1945)
Jo Stafford with the Nat King Cole Trio (1946)
Sidney Bechet & His Feetwarmers (1949)
Ray Charles (1952)
Jack Teagarden (1954)
Albert Nicholas, clarinet, with The Big Chief Jazz Band. Recorded in Oslo August 29, 1955. Released on the 78 rpm record Philips P 53036 H
Frank Sinatra (1957)
Billie Holiday (1959)
Ricky Nelson (1960)
Della Reese (1960)
Ella Fitzgerald on her 1961 Verve release Ella in Hollywood
Sam Cooke (1962)
Sarah Vaughan (1962)
Al Hirt (1962) on his album, Horn A-Plenty^[3]
Miles Davis - Seven Steps to Heaven (1963)
Dean Martin (1964)
Gloria Lynne (1965)
Julie London - Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast (1967)
Coco Briaval (France 1999 album Minor Swing)
David Sanborn - Only Everything (2010)
Elisabeth Bougerol (2011) with The Hot Sardines Band

Notes

↑ David A. Jasen, Gene Jones: Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters, 1880–1930. Routledge, 2005. ISBN 0-415-97704-5
↑ Baby Won't You Please Come Home at jazzstandards.com - retrieved on 26 April 2009
↑ Al Hirt, Horn A-Plenty Retrieved April 8, 2013.

Bessie Smith

Singles	"Downhearted Blues" "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" "T'ain't Nobody's Biz-Ness If I Do" "The St. Louis Blues" "Careless Love Blues" "I Ain't Got Nobody" "After You've Gone" "Alexander's Ragtime Band" "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out"

Related articles	St. Louis Blues

Book:Bessie Smith

Al Hirt

Studio albums	Al Hirt in New Orleans Al Hirt's Jazz Band Ball Al Hirt and His New Orleans All Stars Blockbustin' Dixie! Swingin' Dixie at Dan's Pier 600 in New Orleans, Vol. 1 Swingin' Dixie, Vol. 3 Swingin' Dixie at Dan's Pier 600 in New Orleans, Vol. 2 He's the King and His Band The Greatest Horn in the World At the Mardi Gras Horn A-Plenty Trumpet and Strings Honey in the Horn Our Man in New Orleans Personalities Beauty and the Beard Sugar Lips Cotton Candy The Best of Al Hirt Live at Carnegie Hall That Honey Horn Sound They're Playing Our Song The Happy Trumpet The Horn Meets The Hornet Soul in the Horn Al Hirt Plays Bert Kaempfert Super Jazz 1 That's a Plenty Cotton Candy Jazzin' at the Pops Al's Place Raw Sugar, Sweet Sauce The Sound of Christmas Have a Merry Little Christmas Bourbon Street Parade Al Hirt & His Golden Trumpet Live on Bourbon Street Music to Watch Girls By

Singles	"Java" "Cotton Candy" "Sugar Lips" "Up Above My Head (I Hear Music in the Air)" "Feelin' Fruggy" "Fancy Pants" "Al's Place" "The Silence (Il Silenzio)" "Mame" "Trumpet Pickin'" "The Arena" "Green Hornet Theme" "Ludwig" "Music to Watch Girls By" "Puppet on a String" "Keep the Ball Rollin'" "We Can Fly/Up-Up and Away" "If"

B-sides	"I Can't Get Started" "Walkin'" "Poupee Brisee (Broken Doll)" "September Song" (A-Side) "Louisiana Lullaby" "Star Dust" "Mister Sandman" "Love Theme from The Sandpiper" "Seven Days To Tahiti" "Skillet Lickin'" "Yesterday" (A-Side) "Strawberry Jam" "His Girl" "Big Honey" "Manhattan Safari" "Penny Arcade" (A-Side)

Cover songs	"Alley Cat" "As Time Goes By" "Autumn Leaves" "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" "Baby, It's Cold Outside" "Begin the Beguine" "The Birth of the Blues" "Bye Bye Blues" "Cherry Pink (and Apple Blossom White)" "Danny Boy" "Dear Old Southland" "Deep Purple" "Do Nothing till You Hear from Me" "Down by the Riverside" "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" "Everybody Loves My Baby" "Fly Me to the Moon" "Fools Rush In" "Georgia on My Mind" "The Gypsy in My Soul" "Hello, Dolly!" "How Deep Is the Ocean?" "I Cried for You" "I Had the Craziest Dream" "I Love Paris" "I'll Be Seeing You" "I'll Get By" "I'll Never Smile Again" "I'm Moving On" "I've Heard That Song Before" "It's Been a Long, Long Time" "Jitterbug Waltz" "Just Because" "Last Date" "Laura" "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love" "Love for Sale" "Love Makes the World Go 'Round (Theme From ''Carnival!'')" "Lover, Come Back to Me" "Margie" "Memories of You" "Muskrat Ramble" "Mutual Admiration Society" "My Baby Just Cares for Me" "New Orleans" "Ol' Man River" "One O'Clock Jump" "Out of Nowhere" "Panama" "Personality" "Poor Butterfly" "The Song from Moulin Rouge" "Stella by Starlight" "Stompin' at the Savoy" "Stranger in Paradise" "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" "Tenderly" "Tennessee Waltz" "That Old Feeling" "There! I've Said It Again" "Three Little Words" "Till There Was You" "True Love" "Undecided" "Walk Right In" "What's New?" "When It's Sleepy Time Down South" "When the Saints Go Marching In" "Willow Weep for Me" "Bill Bailey" "You Took Advantage of Me" "You'll Never Know"

Baby Won't You Please Come Home

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