"Baby I'm Yours" is a song written by

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which was a hit in 1965 for

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, the original recording artist. The song was featured in the 1995 film ''

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'' and was included on the soundtrack album. It was also featured in the TV movies '' The Midnight Hour'' (1985) and ''

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'' (2007), as well as being briefly featured in ''

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''.

Composition and original recording

Barbara Lewis first recorded "Baby I'm Yours" in a January 8, 1965 Atlantic Recording Studios (NYC) session directed by

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with the producer credit assigned to Lewis's manager Ollie McLaughlin. The session for the track featured Teacho Wiltshire conducting his orchestra, whose personnel included

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and

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(trumpets),

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and Tony Studd (trombones), Frank Haywood Henry (baritone sax), Charlie Brown (tenor sax), Paul Griffin (piano), Bill Suyker (guitar), Jimmy Lewis (bass),

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(drums), and

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(percussion/ handclaps); the harmony background vocals on the track were provided by the song's composer, Van McCoy, singing with

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Barbara Lewis has stated that Van McCoy wrote "Baby I'm Yours" specifically for her. When she first heard the

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for "Baby I'm Yours" Lewis disliked the song—she has suggested that she actually was daunted by the high quality of the vocal, by McCoy himself, on the demo—and at the original session "I didn't really put 100% into my vocal performance" hoping that Atlantic would shelve the track as sub-par. "Ollie cLaughlintold me 'Barbara, we're gonna have to go back to Detroit and dub you in. We gotta do your vocals over. You're just not giving like you should on the song.' We did several takes

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and he was wondering 'How am I going to get this girl to give? She's so hard-headed.' He said 'You know, Barbara, Karen can sing that song better than you.' That was his little daughter. And it pissed me off. I did one more take, and that was the take that they selected." It has also been reported that Lewis dubbed her vocal in a Chicago studio.

Commercial performance

Released in April 1965, Lewis' "Baby I'm Yours" enjoyed staggered regional success exemplified by the single reaching #1 in Detroit as early as June 1965 and peaking at #4 in Chicago that August: the national peak of the single was #11 achieved on the Hot 100 in ''

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'' dated August 21, 1965. "Baby I'm Yours" afforded Lewis a #5

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hit.

Charts

The Paramounts/ Peter and Gordon versions

A version by

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was released in 1965 by

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: the track would be included on the duo's 1966 ''Lady Godiva'' album.

Development

The first UK recording of "Baby I'm Yours" was made by

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at Abbey Road Studios in the summer of 1965, but the track went unreleased until their 1998 compilation release ''The Paramounts at Abbey Road 1963 to 1970''. A higher-profile act also on the Columbia Kroster,

, had the UK hit version of the song, released October 15, 1965, which reached #19 in the UK. The Peter and Gordon version was recorded in an Abbey Road session produced by

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and featuring

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on guitar.

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—who was partnered with

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as Peter and Gordon—would recall: "We did 'Baby I'm Yours' because I loved the original Barbara Lewis record."

Commercial performance

"Baby I'm Yours" is unique among Peter and Gordon singles as their sole collaboration with arranger

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, who took over from the duo's original regular collaborator

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(subsequent to "Baby I'm Yours" Peter and Gordon regularly collaborated with arranger/conductor Bob Leaper). Also in deference to the US success of the Barbara Lewis version,

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(Peter and Gordon's US label of release) did not issue the duo's "Baby I'm Yours" single; the Peter and Gordon US single release concurrent with their UK "Baby I'm Yours" single release was "Don't Pity Me", a composition by the duo which peaked at #83. "Baby I'm Yours" was the first Peter and Gordon UK single not be released concurrently in the US.

Charts

Jody Miller version

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recorded "Baby I'm Yours" with producer

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¹ in a June 16, 1971 session at the Columbia studio in Nashville for inclusion on the album ''He's So Fine'', entitled for Miller's current Top Ten C&W remake of the Chiffons' 1963 #1 hit.

Development

Miller's recording of "Baby I'm Yours" featured

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chorale. Impressed by the 1968

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hit "

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", Miller had contacted that track's producer Billy Sherrill in the hopes of reviving her own flagging recording career. After ''Look at Mine''—Miller's first album in Sherrill's charge—generated two Top Twenty C&W hits in 1970, Sherrill opted for a new musical direction for Miller, who recalls: "He said I didn't phrase my words like a country singer, so we took some old, sexy pop songs and put in a little boppy steel guitar." Issued September 1, 1971 as the second single off ''He's So Fine'', "Baby I'm Yours" reached #5 C&W and #21 Adult Contemporary and afforded Miller her fifth and final Hot 100 showing with a Hot 100 peak of #91.

Charts

Cass Elliot version

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's remake of "Baby I'm Yours" was released in February 1972 at the same time as its parent album ''

''.

Development

Elliot's version was produced by

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and arranged/conducted by

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. The album was Elliot's debut for

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who insisted on "Baby I'm Yours" release as the lead single over Elliott and Merenstein's choice: "That Song", a new song by Bill Dean, which would be given single release in April 1972. Neither "Baby I'm Yours" or "That Song" afforded Elliot an appearance on a ''Billboard'' chart. Elliot's "Baby I'm Yours" charted on the Canadian

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hitlist, peaking at #18.

Track list

;CD single #"Baby I'm Yours" #"Cherries Jubilee"

Charts

Linda Lewis version

In May 1976, a disco remake of "Baby I'm Yours" was released by

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, who in 1967 had chosen Lewis as her professional surname in honor of

, the original singer of "Baby I'm Yours".

Development

Recorded subsequent to Lewis' 1975 album '' Not a Little Girl Anymore'', and not included on her next album release ''

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'' (1977), "Baby I'm Yours" was included as a bonus track on the 2001 CD release of ''Not a Little Girl Anymore''. The song reached #33 in United Kingdom charts.

Track list

;CD single #"Baby I'm Yours" #"The Other Side"

Charts

Debby Boone version

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recorded "Baby I'm Yours" in the summer of 1977 with the track included on Boone's album '' You Light Up My Life''

Development

The song was issued as a single in March 1978 with "God Knows", a track from Boone's ''

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'' album, as its flip side.

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, the co-writer of "God Knows", has alleged " God Knows'was originally intended to be the A-side. But the record company chickened out and went with hecover of 'Baby I'm Yours' instead." Boone's "Baby I'm Yours" peaked at #22 C&W while on the Hot 100 the track peaked at #74 and on the

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it reached #14, both in a tandem ranking with "God Knows".

Track list

;CD single #"Baby I'm Yours" #"God Knows"

Charts

Tanya Tucker version

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recorded "Baby I'm Yours" for her sole

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'', from which the song was issued as the third single in July 1983, peaking at C&W #22.

Track list

;CD single 1 #"Baby I'm Yours" #"I Don't Want You to Go" ;CD single 2 #"Baby I'm Yours" #"Baby I'm Yours" (Radio edit) #"Baby I'm Yours" (Remix) #"I Don't Want You to Go"

Charts

Cher version

Background

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remade "Baby I'm Yours" for the soundtrack of her 1990 film vehicle ''

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''. Cher's version was arranged to replicate Barbara Lewis' hit, and was produced by

, who as a member of Peter and Gordon had had the UK hit of "Baby I'm Yours". The song was not featured in the film but was selected as the lead single from the soundtrack for release in the UK and Europe after the US single release "

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"—which as remade by Cher had played under the film's closing credits—fell short of the

Top Thirty. "Baby I'm Yours" failed as a single; its only apparent charting was in the UK at #89 and its estimated global sales tally is 100,000 units. "The Shoop Shoop Song" was released in the spring of 1991 with "Baby I'm Yours" as the B-side, and spent five weeks at #1 in the UK and achieved Top Ten status in several European countries as well as Australia and New Zealand. (Coincidentally the precedent charting single to the

1976 UK hit remake of "Baby I'm Yours" had been the first major UK hit version of "The Shoop Shoop Song", entitled "It's in His Kiss".)

Track listing

*European 7" and cassette single #"Baby I'm Yours" – 3:16 #"

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" – 3:46 *European 12" and CD single #"Baby I'm Yours" – 3:16 #"Hard Enough Getting Over You" – 3:46 #"

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Charts

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by a cappella group Double Dare featuring

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'' entitled "And Promises to Keep", Barbara Lewis—portrayed by Vanessa Soul—is seen rehearsing "Baby I'm Yours" for an ''

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'', "Baby I'm Yours" is apparently performed live at a wedding reception, although the track was in fact recorded by a session group credited as

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, none of whose members appear in the film; the track was produced and arranged by

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, heard on piano, while the vocalist is Connie Petruk. * In the 13th episode of the 3rd season of the CBC original series ''

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'', Moira (

Catherine O'Hara Catherine Anne O'Hara (born March 4, 1954) is a Canadian-American actress. She is known for her comedy work on '' Second City Television'' (1976–84) and ''Schitt's Creek'' (2015–2020) and in films such as '' After Hours'' (1985), '' Beetle ...

) sings this song with her choir to her daughter Alexis (

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) on Alexis' graduation day.

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Official Cher site
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