"Run, Baby Run (Back Into My Arms)" | ||||
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Single by The Newbeats | ||||
from the album Run Baby Run | ||||
B-side | "Mean Woolly Willie" | |||
Released | September 1965 (US) October 1965 (UK) September 3, 1971 (UK) | |||
Genre | Pop rock | |||
Length | 2:59 | |||
Label | Hickory 1332 (1965 release) London 10341 (1971 UK release) | |||
Songwriter(s) | Joe Melson, Don Gant | |||
The Newbeats singles chronology | ||||
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"Run, Baby Run (Back Into My Arms)" is a song written by Joe Melson and Don Gant and performed by The Newbeats. It reached #4 in Canada, [1] #12 on the Billboard Hot 100, [2] and #66 in Australia in 1965. The song was also released in the United Kingdom as a single, but it did not chart on its original release. [3] The group re-released the song as the B-side to their 1971 single, "Am I Not My Brother's Keeper", and in that year, "Run, Baby Run (Back Into My Arms)" reached #10 in the U.K., following extensive playing in Northern Soul clubs in England.
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