Baby Now That I've Found You

Infobox Single
Name = Baby, Now That I've Found You


Artist = The Foundations
from Album = Baby, Now That I've Found You
B-side = "Come On Back to Me"
Released = 1967
Format = 7"
Recorded =
Genre = Pop
Length = 3:04
Label = Pye, UK Uni, US
Writer = Tony Macaulay, John MacLeod
Producer = Tony Macaulay
Certification =
Last single =
This single = Baby, Now That I've Found You
(1967)
Next single = Back on My Feet Again
(1968)

"Baby, Now That I've Found You" is a song written by Tony Macaulay and John MacLeod. In 1967, The Foundations released it as their debut single. When "Baby Now That I've Found You" was first released it went nowhere. Luckily BBC's newly founded Radio 1 were looking to avoid any records being played by the pirate radio stations and they looked back at some recent releases that the pirate stations had missed. Baby, Now That I've Found You was one of them. The single then took off and by November Baby Now That I've Found You was number one in the British charts. It met with great success, becoming a number 11 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and topping the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in November 1967. ["Baby Now That I've Found You" a number one hit in the UK charts on 8 November 1967 for two weeks" http://www.theofficialcharts.com/all_the_no1_songs.php?show=2 /Retrieved 01/09/07] Another version was recorded by The Foundations in 1968 that featured Colin Young instead of Clem Curtis, this was on a Marble Arch album that feaured newer versions of their previous hits.

The lyrics are a plea that an unnamed subject not break up with the singer. The song was also recorded by Dan Schafer in 1978 on Tortoise International Records, an RCA Records subsidiary. This version did not chart but received lots of airplay in certain areas & dance clubs as it had a slight disco flair to it.

Original lead singer Clem Curtis recorded his own version of it and it was released on the Opium label OPIN 001 as a 7" single and a 12" version OPINT001 in 1987.

The song was later a 1995 country hit for Alison Krauss from the album "".

In the Philippines the song was revived by MYMP on the album "MYMP Live at the Music Museum". It also appeared on the soundtrack to the film Shallow Hal starring Gwenyth Paltrow and Jack Black and the Australian film, The Castle. ["The Castle (1997) - Soundtracks" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118826/soundtrack /Retrieved 04/08/08]

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