There Goes My Baby (song)

Infobox Single
Name = There Goes my Baby


Artist = The Drifters
from Album =
B-side =
Released = 1959
Format = 7" single
Recorded =
Genre = Soul, R&B
Length =
Label = Atlantic
Writer = Benjamin Nelson, Lover Patterson, George Treadwell
Producer =
Certification =
Chart position =
Last single =
This single =
Next single =
Misc =

Infobox Single
Name = There Goes my Baby


Artist = Donna Summer
from Album = Cats Without Claws
B-side = Maybe It's Over
Released = 1984
Format = 7" single, 12" single
Recorded =
Genre = Pop, Soul, R&B
Length =
Label = Geffen (U.S.)
* Warner Bros. Records (Europe)
Writer = Benjamin Nelson, Lover Patterson, George Treadwell
Producer = Michael Omartian
Certification =
Chart position = * #21 (US)
Last single = "Love Has a Mind of Its Own" (1984)
This single = "There Goes My Baby" (1984)
Next single = "Supernatural Love" (1984)
Misc =

"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 reached number two on 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."cite book
first=Charlie
last=Gillett
year= 1996
title= The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll
edition= (2nd Ed.)
publisher= Da Capo Press
location=New York, N.Y.
pages= p. 192-194
id= ISBN 0-306-80683-5]

ong

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. [cite web
url=http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/coldfeetmoresongs/theregoesmybaby.htm
title=The Drifters Lyrics - There Goes My Baby Lyrics
publisher=
accessdate=2006-11-27 ] ::"(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)"

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.cite book
first= Anthony Decurtis (Eds.)
last= Holly George-Warren &
authorlink=
coauthors=
year= 1976
title= The RollingStone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll
edition= 3rd Edition
publisher= Random House
location=New York
pages= p. 148-149
id= ISBN 0-679-73728-6 ]

The song ranked 193 on "Rolling Stone's" 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list.

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.Fact|date=September 2008

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.Fact|date=September 2008
* In 1987, Diana Ross recorded the tune for her "Red Hot Rhythm and Blues" album. Ross' take on the classic, produced by Tom Dowd, was true to the classic sound of the original, albeit a bit slowed down. Ross lip synced the song on her television special of the same name as the album. In her autobiography 'Secrets of a Sparrow', Ross states that the song was sung by The Primettes (early incarnation of The Supremes) as an audition to Motown founder Berry Gordy, Jr.Fact|date=September 2008
* The Walkmen recorded a version fo the song for the Stubbs the Zombie soundtrack.Fact|date=September 2008

Notes

External links

* [http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/coldfeetmoresongs/theregoesmybaby.htm Drifter lyrics]