Her rendition was produced by Michael Omartian. The song was included in the musical revue Smokey Joe's Cafe.ĭonna Summer version "There Goes My Baby"īenjamin Nelson, Lover Patterson, George Treadwell, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stollerĭonna Summer's version of "There Goes My Baby" was issued as the first single on July 5, 1984, from her 1984 album Cats Without Claws by Geffen Records and Warner Bros. The song has been covered by many artists, including Jay and the Americans. In 2010, the song was ranked #196 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Phil Spector studied this production model under Leiber and Stoller. This pointed the way to the coming era of soul music as the popularity of the doo-wop vocal groups peaked and faded. The string arrangement is by Stan Applebaum. This recording introduced the idea of using strings, a Brazilian baion and elaborate production values on an R&B recording to enhance the emotional power of black music. (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 The accompaniment features a violin section playing saxophone-like riffs in rock and roll style.
The lyrics are loosely structured, almost free-form at a time when rhyming lines were mandatory. On the Cash Box sales chart, it likewise went to number one for two weeks, in the summer of 1959. "There Goes My Baby also hit number one on the Billboard R&B chart. The combination of new style and new group fit, and the song reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100, behind " A Big Hunk o' Love" by Elvis Presley. 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.
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