Baby Don't Cry (INXS song)

"Baby Don't Cry"
Single by INXS
from the album Welcome to Wherever You Are
Released	10 August 1992 (1992-08-10)
Genre	Pop [1]
Length	4:54
Label	EastWest
Songwriter(s)	Andrew Farriss Michael Hutchence
Producer(s)	Mark Opitz
INXS singles chronology
"Heaven Sent" (1992) "Baby Don't Cry" (1992) "Not Enough Time" (1992)

"Baby Don't Cry" is the second single released from Australian rock band INXS's eighth studio album, Welcome to Wherever You Are (1992). It was written by Andrew Farriss and Michael Hutchence about Farriss's daughter, Grace. The single was released only in Europe and Australia.

Incorporating the 60-piece Australian Concert Orchestra, ^[2] the song reached number 20 in the United Kingdom, number 30 in Australia and Belgium, number 34 in New Zealand, and number 46 in the Netherlands. In 1993, the song's engineer, Niven Garland, was nominated for Engineer of the Year at the 1993 ARIA Music Award for his work on "Baby Don't Cry", "Heaven Sent", and "Taste It".

Background

The song was written by Andrew Farriss and Michael Hutchence about Farriss's daughter, Grace. Farriss said in a December 2001 interview with Debbie Kruger for the Australasian Performing Right Association:

On the following album, Welcome to Wherever You Are , I just had the birth of my first daughter, Grace, and I was very much realising that life had changed for me dramatically because I became a parent and I’d just gone that next step in my life. I was writing lyrics like "Baby Don't Cry" and "Beautiful Girl’ and lyrics just about how wonderful it is to have something else in your life besides yourself to worry about and think about. So I began to have some interesting conversations with Michael, where he was still interested in writing fairly dark introspective lyrics, and I was trying to write very positive happy songs at a point in my life. ^[3]

Accolades

In 1993, the song's engineer, Niven Garland, was nominated for Engineer of the Year at the 1993 ARIA Music Award for his work on "Baby Don't Cry", "Heaven Sent", and "Taste It". ^[4]

Track listings

Australian CD and cassette single ^{[5] [6]}

1. "Baby Don't Cry"
2. "Questions"
3. "Ptar Speaks"
4. "Baby Don't Cry" (vocal and orchestra mix)

UK 7-inch and cassette single ^{[7] [8]}

1. "Baby Don't Cry"
2. "Questions" (instrumental)

UK CD single and Dutch 12-inch single ^{[9] [10]}

1. "Baby Don't Cry"
2. "Questions" (instrumental)
3. "Ptar Speaks"
4. "Baby Don't Cry" (vocal and orchestra mix)

Charts

Chart (1992)	Peak position
Australia (ARIA) [11]	30
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) [12]	30
Europe (Eurochart Hot 100) [13]	59
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40 Tipparade) [14]	3
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [15]	46
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) [16]	34
UK Singles (OCC) [17]	20

Release history

Region	Date	Format(s)	Label(s)	Ref.
Australia	10 August 1992	CD cassette	EastWest	[18]
United Kingdom	24 August 1992	7-inch vinyl CD cassette	Mercury	[19]

References

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2. "Year by Year: 1992". www.inxs.com. Archived from the original on 30 March 2009. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
3. Kruger, Debbie (December 2001). "Andrew Farriss - APrap". Australasian Performing Right Association – via www.debbiekruger.com.
4. "Winners by Year 1993". ARIA. Archived from the original on 14 December 2007. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
5. Baby Don't Cry (Australian CD single liner notes). EastWest Records. 1992. 4509-90592-2.
6. Baby Don't Cry (Australian cassette single sleeve). EastWest Records. 1992. 450990592-4.
7. Baby Don't Cry (UK 7-inch single sleeve). Mercury Records. 1992. INXS 20, 864 364-7.
8. Baby Don't Cry (UK cassette single sleeve). Mercury Records. 1992. INXMC 20.
9. Baby Don't Cry (UK CD single liner notes). Mercury Records. 1992. INXCD 20, 864 365-2.
10. Baby Don't Cry (Dutch 12-inch single sleeve). Mercury Records. 1992. INXS X 20, 864 367-1.
11. "INXS – Baby Don't Cry". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
12. "INXS – Baby Don't Cry" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
13. "Eurochart Hot 100 Singles" (PDF). Music & Media . Vol. 9, no. 38. 19 September 1992. p. 21. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
14. "Tipparade-lijst van week 41, 1992" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40 . Retrieved 20 March 2023.
15. "INXS – Baby Don't Cry" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
16. "INXS – Baby Don't Cry". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
17. "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
18. "New Release Summary – Product Available from : 10/08/92: Singles". The ARIA Report . No. 132. 9 August 1992. p. 20.
19. "New Releases: Singles". Music Week . 22 August 1992. p. 19.