Baby Come Back (Player song)

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"Baby Come Back"
Baby Come Back by Player (US single, side A).png
Side A of the US single
Single by Player
from the album Player
B-side "Love Is Where You Find It"
ReleasedOctober 13, 1977 (1977-10-13)
Recorded1977
Genre
Length
  • 3:28 (Single Version)
  • 4:15 (Album Version)
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Player singles chronology
"Baby Come Back"
(1977)		"This Time I'm in It for Love"
(1977)
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Baby Come Back by Player (UK single, side A).png
Side A of the UK single

"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.

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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.

Personnel

additional personnel

Cover versions

In 1980, the song was covered by O.C. Smith.

Lisa Stansfield, in 1997, released the song as a bonus track on the Japanese version of her self-titled album.

Singer Pianist Joe Mcbride covered his version from his album "Double Take" in 1998.

Alternative rock band Lazlo Bane, in 2007, covered the song for their covers album Guilty Pleasures . [6] [ better source needed ]

In 2018, Australian band Ocean Alley included it as part of the "Like a Version" segment on the Australian radio station Triple J. The cover reached #16 on Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2018 [ citation needed ] and was certified gold by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). [7]

Uses in other media

In 2008, the song was used in a commercial for a cleaning product called the [8] Swiffer WetJet .

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. [9] [10]

The song is also used in the Michael Bay blockbuster Transformers , when the Autobot Bumblebee 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 .

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 .

The song was sung by Steve Smith (Scott Grimes) in the American Dad! episode "The Unbrave One".

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.

In 2016, Peter Beckett performed a parody "Brady Come Back" on The Herd with Colin Cowherd about the return of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady from suspension.

In 2018, rapper Yung Gravy sampled the song in his single "Cheryl".

In 2022, this song is played in the movie Black Adam.

Chart performance

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