"Baby Come Back" is a song by the British-American rock band Player. It was released in late 1977 as the lead single from their 1977 self-titled debut album,and was the breakthrough single for the band,gaining them mainstream success,hitting #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 for the three consecutive weeks of January 14,21 and 28,1978 and #10 on the R&B charts in 1978.[5] Their biggest hit single,the song was written and performed by Peter Beckett and J. C. Crowley,the founders of Player.
As reported on the American Top 40 replay broadcast of November 5,1977,"Baby Come Back" was written after two of the band members had broken up with their girlfriends.
In 2008 the song was used in a commercial for a cleaning product called the Swiffer WetJet.[7]
In 2011 it was the source of a parody by Chicago artist Magic 1 entitled "Cutty Come Back", which alludes to the Chicago Bears' woes without quarterback Jay Cutler.[8][9]
The song is also used in the Michael Bay blockbuster Transformers, when the AutobotBumblebee communicates with its new owner Sam Witwicky through songs on the radio. In this case, after an incident with the girl he is attracted to, Mikaela, gets out of the car and Sam tries to persuade her to "come back". The lyrics of the song are expected to accomplish this desire, as laid out by the filmmakers, though it is unlikely given the context that she would actually come back anyway.
Actress/singer Vanessa Hudgens sampled the song for her 2006 debut single "Come Back to Me", from her debut album V. 18 years later, Hudgens covered the original song during the 11th season of The Masked Singer while disguised as Goldfish.
In The Simpsons episode "Homer Alone", when Homer calls the "Department of Missing Babies" after losing Maggie, the hold music is a newly recorded version of the song, by Peter Beckett and J.C. Crowley.
This song was sung by Hank Hill and Elroy "Lucky" Kleinschmidt in the Point After Lounge in the "Church Hopping" episode of King of the Hill.
In a May 2014 episode of General Hospital, precocious Spencer Cassadine attempted to woo back Emma Scorpio-Drake by hiring Player to perform the song at the Nurses Ball. Spencer's great-grandmother Lesley Webber was supposedly a groupie of the band in the 1970s.
↑ Molanphy, Chris (July 31, 2021). "What a Fool Believes Edition". Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia (Podcast). Slate. Retrieved February 22, 2024.
↑ Billboard Staff (October 19, 2023). "The 500 Best Pop Songs: Staff List". Billboard. Retrieved February 10, 2024. Late-'70s pop-rockers Player followed the "She's Gone" playbook to a T with their own blue-eyed breakup ballad "Baby Come Back
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