Everybody Loves My Baby

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"Everybody Loves My Baby"
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Published1924 (1924) by Clarence Williams Music
Genre Jazz
Composer(s) Spencer Williams
Lyricist(s) Jack Palmer

"Everybody Loves My Baby", also known as "Everybody Loves My Baby, but My Baby Don't Love Nobody but Me", is a popular and jazz standard song composed by Spencer Williams in 1924. Lyrics were written by Jack Palmer.

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1925 Okeh Records ad for recording by Clarence Williams Blue Five Everybody Loves My Baby Clarence Williams OKeh ad 1925.jpg
1925 Okeh Records ad for recording by Clarence Williams Blue Five

One important early recording was by the young Louis Armstrong with Clarence Williams' Blue Five on November 6, 1924, New York, NY. Released as a single: "Everybody Loves My Baby (but My Baby Don't Love Nobody But Me)" (Palmer, Jack; Williams, Spencer) [master S-72-959-B] – Okeh 8181. Featuring: Williams, Clarence (Piano, Director); Taylor, Eva (Vocal); Armstrong, Louis (Cornet); Thompson, Aaron (Trombone); Bailey, Buster (Soprano Saxophone); and Christian, Buddy (Banjo). [1] Before this recording, Armstrong won a vaudeville night at the Roseland Ballroom singing and playing this tune. [2] Another popular recording in 1925 was by Aileen Stanley. [3]

The song remained popular for decades and continues to be performed regularly in the 21st century.

Other notable recordings

Grammar notes

The song is often sung by a woman about her man, but the lyrics are adaptable enough that either a man or a woman may sing it.

The song title (more specifically, the double negative grammatically corrected "...but my baby loves nobody but me" in some covered versions) has frequently led teachers and students of predicate logic to jestingly accuse [16] the song's narrator of narcissism: The first half of the title, "everybody loves my baby," implies "my baby loves my baby." The second half, "my baby loves nobody but me" (formally, "if I am not a given person, then my baby does not love that person"), is logically equivalent to "if my baby loves a given person, then I am that person." The latter statement implies "if my baby loves my baby, then I am my baby." From "if my baby loves my baby, then I am my baby" and "my baby loves my baby" it follows that "I am my baby." [17] (Throughout the above, the universe of discourse is restricted to persons.)

See also

Notes

  1. See the online Louis Armstrong Discography Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine for more information.
  2. Brothers, Thomas (2014). Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company. p. 151. ISBN   978-0-393-06582-4.
  3. Whitburn, Joel (1986). Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954 . Wisconsin, USA: Record Research Inc. p.  408. ISBN   0-89820-083-0.
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  14. Al Hirt, Beauty and the Beard Retrieved April 10, 2013.
  15. Everybody Loves My Baby at jazzstandards.com - retrieved on March 23, 2009
  16. See, e.g., http://cstl-cla.semo.edu/hill/pl330/Homework.htm: problem set 13, problem 4
  17. An alternative route changes the order of the contrapositive and the instantiation: As above, "everybody loves my baby" implies that "my baby loves my baby." As for the second half of the title, "if I am not a given person, my baby does not love that person" implies "if I am not my baby, then my baby does not love my baby." The latter is logically equivalent to "if my baby loves my baby, then I am my baby." From "if my baby loves my baby, then I am my baby" and "my baby loves my baby" it follows that "I am my baby." Again, universe of discourse is restricted to persons.