Keep Your Hands off My Baby

"Keep Your Hands off My Baby"
Single by Little Eva
B-side	"Where Do I Go?"
Released	1962
Genre	Pop
Length	2:29
Label	Dimension Records
Songwriter(s)	Gerry Goffin, Carole King
Producer(s)	Gerry Goffin
Little Eva singles chronology
"The Loco-Motion" (1962) "Keep Your Hands off My Baby" (1962) "Let's Turkey Trot" (1963)

"Keep Your Hands off My Baby"
Song by The Beatles
from the album Live at the BBC
Released	30 November 1994
Recorded	22 January 1963
Genre	Merseybeat, pop
Length	2:31
Label	Apple Records
Songwriter(s)	Gerry Goffin, Carole King
Producer(s)	George Martin (Executive producer)

"Keep Your Hands off My Baby"
Single by Kirsty MacColl
B-side	"I Don't Need You"
Released	23 January 1981
Label	Polydor
Songwriter(s)	Gerry Goffin, Carole King
Producer(s)	Barry Farmer
Kirsty MacColl singles chronology
"They Don't Know" (1979) "Keep Your Hands off My Baby" (1981) "There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis" (1981)

"Keep Your Hands off My Baby" is a song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. ^[1]

The most notable recording was by Little Eva, whose version reached No. 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and No. 30 on the UK Singles Chart in 1962.

Chart history

Chart (1962)	Peak position
Canada (CHUM Chart) [2]	11
UK Singles Chart [3]	30
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [4]	12
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B Singles [5]	6

Other recordings

Other artists who have recorded versions of the song include:

• The Beatles who recorded the song for the BBC radio show Saturday Club on 22 January 1963, which was first broadcast four days later. They also performed it the following month on their first British tour. It was later released on their album Live at the BBC , in 1994. ^[6]
• Kirsty MacColl's version was released as a single in the UK on 23 January 1981 and peaked at number 123 on the Record Business singles chart in February 1981. ^{[7] [8]}
• Helen Shapiro ^[9]
• Lindisfarne
• Skeeter Davis
• Kahoru Kohiruimaki (on 1985 album Call My Name) ^[10]
• The Trashmen
• Ol' 55
• Wayne Fontana ^[11]

References

1. "discogs.com". discogs.com. 1962. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
2. "CHUM Hit Parade - December 10, 1962".
3. "officialcharts.com". officialcharts.com. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
4. Whitburn, Joel (2013). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012. Record Research. p. 505.
5. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 355.
6. The Beatles Bible: Keep Your Hands Off My Baby Retrieved on 15 September 2008.
7. "Data Control: Record News". New Musical Express . 24 January 1981. p. 30. ISSN   0028-6362.
8. "The Singles Chart - Ones to Watch". Record Business . Vol. 3, no. 46. 16 February 1981. p. 11. ISSN   0144-0691.
9. "At Abbey Road 1961–1967 – Helen Shapiro". AllMusic. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
10. "Call My Name, Discogs.com".
11. "CaroleKing.com" . Retrieved 24 March 2008.