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There Goes My Baby

from I'll Come Back to You by Larry Santos

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Flip-side of "I'll Come Back To You"

"There Goes My Baby" is a song written by Ben E. King (Benjamin Nelson), Lover Patterson, George Treadwell, Jerry Leiber, and Mike Stoller, and produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller for The Drifters.[2] This was the first single by the second incarnation of the Drifters (previously known as the 5 Crowns), who assumed the group name in 1958 after manager George Treadwell fired the remaining members of the original lineup.

Leiber and Stoller used a radically different approach to production than Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler had employed with the original Clyde McPhatter-led Drifters. The combination of new style and new group fit, and the song reached number two on the Hot 100 and number one on the Billboard R&B chart and on the Cash Box sales chart for two weeks, in the summer of 1959.[3] The Atlantic Records release was King's debut recording as lead singer of the group.

The song was included in the musical revue "Smokey Joe's Cafe".

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.[4]

(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)[2]

Legacy

This recording introduced the idea of using strings, a Brazilian baion and elaborate production values[2] 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.[5]

The song ranked 196 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list and has been covered by many artists, including Jay and the Americans and soft-voiced pop star Larry Santos.
Donna Summer version

Donna Summer's version of "There Goes My Baby" was the first single from her 1984 album Cats Without Claws. The single became a moderate hit, peaking at #21 on the US Hot 100, and in the top twenty of the US R&B chart. Summer's version of this song features an electro-pop sound and was accompanied by a high-quality music video featuring Summer and husband Bruce Sudano as a down-on-their-luck couple at the outbreak of World War II. The video was played in heavy rotation on the MTV network, showing MTV's continued support of Summer as an artist. With this single, Summer earned her nineteenth - and second to last - US Top 40 hit.

lyrics

There goes my baby
Movin' on down the line
Wonder where, wonder where
Wonder where she is bound

I broke her heart and made her cry
Now I'm alone, so all alone
What can I do, what can I do?

There goes my baby
There goes my baby
There goes my baby
There she goes

I wanna know if she loved me
Did she really love me?
Was she just playing me for a fool?

I wonder why she left me
Why did she leave me so all alone
So all alone

I was gonna tell her that I loved her
And that I need her
Beside my side to be my guide

I wanna know where is my
Where is my baby
I want my baby
I need my baby, yeah

There goes my baby
There goes my baby

credits

from I'll Come Back to You, track released December 1, 1980
Produced by Larry Santos
Written by Benjamin Nelson, Lover Patterson, George Treadwell, Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller

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Larry Santos Oneonta, New York

Larry Santos (born 2 June 1941, Oneonta, NY) is an American pop singer-songwriter compared with other popular pianist/singers such as Carole King and Barry Manilow. His soft, smooth baritone was influenced by Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Gordon Lightfoot, John Sebastian and Jack Jones. ... more

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