Baby Come Back (Player song)

"Baby Come Back"
Single by Player
from the album Player
B-side "Love Is Where You Find It"
Released October 13, 1977
Format 7" vinyl single
Recorded 1977
Genre Soft rock
Length 4:12 (45 version 3:28)
Label Philips, RSO
Songwriter(s) Peter Beckett, J.C. Crowley
Producer(s) Dennis Lambert, Brian Potter
Player singles chronology
"Baby Come Back"
(1977)		 "This Time I'm in It for Love"
(1977)

"Baby Come Back"
(1977)		 "This Time I'm in It for Love"
(1977)

"Baby Come Back" is a song by the American rock band Player. It was released in late 1977 as the lead single from their 1977 self-titled debut album. The song was their biggest hit single, hitting number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number ten on the R&B charts in 1978. It was the breakthrough single for the band, gaining them mainstream success, and hit number one, knocking label-mates The Bee Gees' "How Deep Is Your Love" from the top spot. Written by lead singer Peter Beckett and J.C. Crowley, the founders of Player, and sung by Beckett and Crowley that sang the line, "Nothing left for me" during the bridge.

Two versions of the song exist. The album version ends with a guitar solo fade out, while the single version has a shorter opening and ends with the chorus being repeated on a fade out.

Personnel

  • Peter Beckett – lead vocals, lead and rhythm guitars
  • J.C. Crowley – co-lead vocals, backing vocals, keyboards
  • Ronn Moss – backing vocals, bass guitar
  • John Friesen – drums, percussion

Cover versions

In 1997, Lisa Stansfield released the song as a bonus track on the Japanese version of her self-titled album.

The band Ocean Alley also covered this song as part of the Australian radio show Triple J's 'Like A Version' segment.

Uses in other media

The song has been used in the film Safe Men (1998). In 2011, it was the source of a parody by Chicago artist, Magic 1, entitled "Cutty Come Back", which alludes to the Chicago Bears' woes without quarterback Jay Cutler.[1][2][3][4][5]

The song is also used in the Michael Bay blockbuster Transformers, when the Autobot Bumblebee communicates with its new owner Sam Witwicky through songs on the radio. In this case, after an incident with the girl he is attracted to, Mikaela, gets out of the car and Sam tries to persuade her to "come back". The lyrics of the song are expected to accomplish this desire, as laid out by the filmmakers, though it is unlikely given the context that she would actually come back anyway.

Actress/singer Vanessa Hudgens sampled the song in her debut single, "Come Back To Me" on her debut album, V in 2006.

Alternative rock band Lazlo Bane covered the song for their 2007 cover album Guilty Pleasures.[6]

In The Simpsons episode "Homer Alone," when Homer calls the "Department of Missing Babies" after losing Maggie, the hold music is a newly recorded version of the song, by Peter Beckett and J.C. Crowley.

This song was sung by Hank Hill and Elroy "Lucky" Kleinschmidt in the Point After Lounge in the "Church Hopping" episode of King of the Hill.

The song was sung by Steve Smith (Scott Grimes) in the American Dad episode, "The Unbrave One."

On a May 2014 episode of General Hospital, precocious Spencer Cassadine attempted to woo back Emma Scorpio-Drake by hiring Player to perform the song at the Nurses Ball. Spencer's great-grandmother Lesley Webber was supposedly a groupie of the band in the 1970s.

In 2016, Peter Beckett performed a parody "Brady Come Back" on The Herd with Colin Cowherd about the return of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady from suspension.

The song was being used in the Toyota Hilux commercial.

Chart performance

References

  1. ↑ "Cutty Come Back". YouTube. 2011-12-03. Retrieved 2012-02-29.
  2. ↑ "Jay Cutler Injury Song: Listen to Epic Slow Jam "Cutty Come Back"". Bleacher Report. 2012-01-01. Retrieved 2012-02-29.
  3. ↑
  4. ↑ "Chicago Saturday sing-along: "Cutty Come Back" - NFL.com". Blogs.nfl.com. 2011-12-10. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  5. ↑ "'Cutty come back': Parody bemoans Cutler's absence". Chicago Tribune. 2011-12-08.
  6. ↑ "Lazlo Bane's Guilty Pleasures". cdbaby.com. Retrieved 2017-01-10.
  7. 1 2 Steffen Hung. "Forum - 1970 (ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts)". Australian-charts.com. Archived from the original on 2016-06-02. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  8. ↑ "Top RPM Singles: Issue 5533a." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved October 8, 2017.
  9. ↑ "Dutchcharts.nl – Player – Baby Come Back" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved October 8, 2017.
  10. ↑ "Nederlandse Top 40 – Player" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40.
  11. ↑ "Charts.nz – Player – Baby Come Back". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved October 8, 2017.
  12. ↑ "Springbok SA Top 20". Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  13. ↑ "Player: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved October 8, 2017.
  14. ↑ "Player Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved October 8, 2017.
  15. ↑ "Player Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard. Retrieved October 8, 2017.
  16. ↑ "Player Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved October 8, 2017.
  17. ↑
  18. ↑ "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  19. ↑ "Top 100 Hits of 1978/Top 100 Songs of 1978". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  20. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-11-03.

Bibliography

  • Joel Whitburn's Presents Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004, 2004, Record Research Inc., ISBN 978-0898201604

See also

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