There Goes My Baby (song)
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"There Goes My Baby" is a song written by the songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller for The Drifters, a doo wop group. They used a different song structure than they had in their previous successes with The Coasters. The combination of new style and new group fit and the song made the pop Top Ten Charts in 1959 when it was released by Atlantic Records.[1]
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[edit] 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.[1][2]
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- (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)
[edit] 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.[3]
The Walker Brothers recorded a version of the song for their debut album, Take It Easy With The Walker Brothers in 1965.
Donna Summer also released a cover version in 1984 from her album Cats Without Claws, reaching #21 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #20 on the R&B charts.
A 1998 cover by Trisha Yearwood reached #93 on the Hot 100 and #2 on the country charts.
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b Gillett, Charlie (1996). The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll, (2nd Ed.), New York, N.Y.: Da Capo Press, p. 192-194. ISBN 0-306-80683-5.
- ^ The Drifters Lyrics - There Goes My Baby Lyrics. Retrieved on November 27, 2006.
- ^ Holly George-Warren &, Anthony Decurtis (Eds.) (1976). The RollingStone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll, 3rd Edition, New York: Random House, p. 148-149. ISBN 0-679-73728-6.
