Make Me Your Baby

"Make Me Your Baby"
Single by Barbara Lewis
B-side	"Love to Be Loved"
Released	1965
Format	7" single
Genre	R&B
Length	2:25
Label	Atlantic
Writer(s)	Roger Atkins and Helen Miller
Producer	Bert Berns
Barbara Lewis singles chronology
"Baby I'm Yours" (1965) Make Me Your Baby (1965) "Don't Forget About Me" (1965)

"Make Me Your Baby" is the name of a song written by Helen Miller and Roger Atkins which was a hit for Barbara Lewis in 1965.

The demo for "Make Me Your Baby" was cut by journeyman session singer Jean Thomas on 22 January 1965 at the behest of Atlantic Records president Jerry Wexler who wanted to offer the song to Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles, then a Cameo-Parkway act Wexler was hoping to woo over to Atlantic. Although Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles did sign with Atlantic "Make Me Your Baby" was still unrecorded in the summer of 1965 when the success of "Baby I'm Yours" alerted Wexler to the suitability of "Make Me Your Baby" as a vehicle for its singer Barbara Lewis and - working with "Baby I'm Yours" producer Bert Berns - Lewis recorded "Make Me Your Baby" in New York City for a September 1965 release.

In the interim the song had been recorded by the Pixies Three whose version had successfully been pitched to Cameo Parkway; however before the relevant contract had been finalized the Barbara Lewis single had begun to break causing Cameo Parkway to opt out; the Pixies Three consequently disbanded.

The Barbara Lewis version of "Make Me Your Baby" matched the #11 peak of the precedent "Baby I'm Yours" in November 1965.

Barbara Lewis' "Make Me Your Baby" had an unsuccessful September 1965 release in the UK, where a local cover was cut by producer Shel Talmy with vocalist Liz Shelley: released 10 September 1965 on Brunswick this version also failed to chart but, despite the advance of Lewis' version on the US charts, Shelley's single was given an American release by Decca Records.

Bobby Vinton remade the song a "I'll Make You My Baby": Billy Sherrill produced the track which as the lead single for the Ev'ry Day of My Life reached #30 on the Easy Listening chart in Billboard in April 1971, just missing the Billboard Hot 100 by peaking at #101 on the Bubbling Under chart.

"Make Me Your Baby" was covered in late 1975 in a disco style by Canadian singer Suzanne Stevens. Her version reached #23 on Canada's RPM singles chart in December, 1975. Lewis' version had reached the top 10 in Canada in late 1965.