Here Comes My Baby (Cat Stevens song)

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"Here Comes My Baby"
Song by Cat Stevens
from the album Matthew and Son
Released10 March 1967 (1967-03-10)
Recorded1966
Studio Decca Studios, London
Genre
Length2:58
Label Deram
Songwriter(s) Cat Stevens
Producer(s) Mike Hurst

"Here Comes My Baby" is a song written by British singer-songwriter Cat Stevens. It is well known for being an international hit for the Tremeloes in 1967.

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Original version

In 1966, Stevens was discovered by Mike Hurst, formerly of the Springfields, who after their split in 1963, decided to become a record producer. Whilst working for American producer Jim Economides, Hurst was introduced to Stevens who was trying to find a record label who would sign him. He played "Here Comes My Baby", which Hurst thought was great and took it to Economides. However Economides disliked it, so Stevens wasn't signed. The company eventually went bust and some time later, Stevens went to Hurst's house asking if he was still interested after being rejected by every record label in London. Stevens played him a new song, "I Love My Dog", which Hurst thought was "so unusual and really weird" and agreed to record it, with the song eventually being released as Stevens' debut single and to launch Decca Records' flagship label Deram. [1] Meanwhile, "Here Comes My Baby" was shelved after "I Love My Dog" was seen as the stronger song to release as a single, and it was later included on Stevens' debut album Matthew and Son , released in March 1967. [2]

Stevens' version notably features in the 1998 Wes Anderson film Rushmore along with "The Wind"; it was the first film he granted permission to use his songs after his conversion to Islam in the late 1970s. [3]

The Tremeloes version

"Here Comes My Baby"
Here Comes My Baby - Tremeloes.jpg
Cover of the single released in Germany
Single by the Tremeloes
from the album Here Come the Tremeloes
B-side "Gentleman of Pleasure"
Released13 January 1967 (1967-01-13)
Genre
Length2:48
Label CBS
Songwriter(s) Cat Stevens
Producer(s) Mike Smith
The Tremeloes singles chronology
"Good Day Sunshine"
(1966)		"Here Comes My Baby"
(1967)		"Silence Is Golden"
(1967)

After Stevens shelved "Here Comes My Baby", it was recorded by beat group the Tremeloes. Their version was released several months prior to Stevens' album release, with it being released as a single in January 1967. It became the group's first top-ten hit since the departure of lead singer Brian Poole the year before, and their first top-twenty hit in the US. [4]

The Tremeloes' version is slightly different, lyrically, from the original, with the beginning lyrics altered and the final verse left out. [2] Stevens' lyrics begin "In the midnight moonlight I'll / Be walking a long and lonely mile", whereas in the Tremeloes' version, this has been changed to "In the midnight, moonlight hour / he's walking that long and lonely mile". [5] Most cover versions of the song sing this altered version. The group's version is also more upbeat that the original, with Stevens calling it "a complete Xmas-party take on an originally sad song". [6] However, the success of the Tremeloes' version helped establish Stevens as a songwriter, who had his own top-ten hit with "Matthew and Son" in early 1967, and another of his songs, "The First Cut Is the Deepest", would become a hit for P. P. Arnold later in 1967. [7] [2]

Charts

Personnel

Other cover versions and appearances

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