Baby, Please Don't Go

Infobox Single
Name = Baby, Please Don't Go


Artist = Joe Williams' Washboard Blues Singers
from Album =
B-side = "Wild Cow Blues"
Released = 1935
Format = Vinyl Record
Recorded = October 31, 1935
Genre = Blues
Length =
Label = Bluebird Records B6200
Producer = Lester Melrose
Last single =
This single = "Baby, Please Don't Go" (1935)
Next single =Infobox Single
Name = Baby, Please Don't Go


Artist = Big Joe Williams
from Album =
B-side = "Wild Cow Moan"
Released = 1945
Format = Vinyl Record
Recorded = July 22, 1945
Genre = Blues
Length = 3:24
Label = Columbia Records
Producer =
Last single =
This single = "Baby, Please Don't Go" (1945)
Next single =Infobox Single
Name = Baby, Please Don't Go


Caption =
Artist = Them
from Album =
A-side = "Baby, Please Don't Go" (Williams)
B-side = "Gloria" (Morrison)
Released = November 1964
Format =
Recorded =
Genre =
Length = 2:38
Label = Decca Records (UK), Parrot Records (USA)
Writer = Van Morrison, Big Joe Williams
Producer =
Certification =
Last single = "One Two Brown Eyes" (1964)
This single = "Baby, Please Don't Go" (1964)
Next single = "Gloria" (1965)
Misc =Infobox Song
Name = Baby, Please Don't Go
Artist = AC/DC
Album = High Voltage
Released = February 17 1975
track_no = 1
Recorded = September 1974
Genre = Hard rock
Length = 4:50
Writer = Big Joe Williams
Label = Albert Productions
Producer = Harry Vanda, George Young
prev =
prev_no =
next = "She's Got Balls"
next_no = 2Infobox Song
Name = Baby, Please Don't Go


Artist = AC/DC
Album = '74 Jailbreak
Released = October 1984
track_no = 5
prev = "Soul Stripper"
prev_no = 4
next =
next_no = Infobox Single
Name = Baby, Please Don't Go


Artist = Aerosmith
from Album = Honkin' on Bobo
B-side =
Released = 2004
Format = CD, Vinyl
Recorded = 2003
Genre = Hard rock
Length = 3:23
Label = Columbia
Producer = Jack Douglas, Marti Frederiksen, Steven Tyler, Joe Perry
Last single = "Sing for the Moment" (2003)
This single = "Baby, Please Don't Go" (2004)
Next single = "Devil's Got a New Disguise" (2006)Infobox Single
Name = Baby Please Don't Go (American Idol Performance)


Artist = Amanda Overmyer
Released = February 21, 2008
Format = iTunes download
Recorded = Hollywood, CA USA 2008
Genre = Pop
Length = 1:41
Label = 19 TV Limited/Fremantle Media North America, Inc.
Writer =
Producer =
Last single = -
This single = "Baby Please Don't Go (American Idol Performance)" (2008)
Next single = "Carry On Wayward Son (American Idol Performance)" (2008)"Baby, Please Don't Go" is a blues song first recorded by Big Joe Williams in 1935. It is related to a group of early 20th century blues and work songs that include "Alabama Bound", "Another Man Done Gone", and "Don't Leave Me Here", and "Turn Your Lamp Down Low".

It has become a blues and rock standard, and has been recorded by many artists (see list below).

1935 version

The original single by Joe Williams' Washboard Blues Singers can be heard on Harry Smith's "Anthology of American Folk Music", Vol. 4 (Revenant, 2000).

1941 version

Personnel

* Big Joe Williams - Guitar, Vocals
* Sonny Boy Williamson I - HarpFact|date=December 2007
* Ransom Knowling - Double Bass
* Judge Riley - Drums

Notable cover versions

Van Morrison and Them

The band Them fronted by Van Morrison, released "Baby, Please Don't Go" as the A side of a single in late 1964. Boosted by the B side, a ditty entitled "Gloria", the single became their first hit, reaching #10 on the UK Singles Chart. This version is included on the double CD compilation "The Story of Them Featuring Van Morrison", Van Morrison's 1990s greatest hits album, "The Best of Van Morrison" and various compilations of Morrison's work. Session guitar work was played by a then little-known Jimmy Page.

John Lee Hooker's posthumously released DVD "Come See About Me" includes a 1992 performance where Hooker plays "Baby, Please Don't Go" on his guitar while sitting on a dock. He is accompanied on harmonica by Them's Van Morrison.

Amboy Dukes / Ted Nugent

Since it was the Amboy Dukes' debut single, former Dukes guitarist Ted Nugent has covered the song in live performances throughout his career.

The single is included on the 1967 album "Amboy Dukes", and also appears on the "" compilation. A live version from Nugent's 1978 "Double Live Gonzo!" is included on his greatest hits collections "Great Gonzos" and "The Ultimate Ted Nugent".

Budgie

Welsh band Budgie recorded this song on their 1973 album Never Turn Your Back on a Friend, with the original line-up of Burke Shelly on bass and vocals, Tony Bourge on Guitar and Ray Philips on drums.

AC/DC

AC/DC recorded this song with their original singer Dave Evans; this version was never released. Guitarist Malcolm Young sings it on the AC/DC bootleg album "In The Beginning - Sydney Hampton Court Hotel, 1974", the only live recording from the band's Dave Evans period.

A version with new singer Bon Scott was recorded for their 1974 Australia-only album "High Voltage"; it was released internationally in 1984 on their compilation EP "'74 Jailbreak". The video, as released on "Family Jewels", was recorded on the Australian music program "Countdown", and features Bon Scott in drag, singing over a studio-recorded backing track. Scott performed the song live with AC/DC in various concerts up until 1979.

Aerosmith

Aerosmith released a version of "Baby, Please Don't Go" on their blues cover album, "Honkin' on Bobo" in 2004. It was the only single from the album, and hit #7 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. Since its release, it has been a staple song in the band's concert performances. As it followed a period in the 1990s and early 2000s when the band charted with several power ballads, this recording is considered a return to hard rock music for Aerosmith.Fact|date=July 2007

elective list of recorded versions

*1935 Big Joe Williams (Bluebird records), also re-recorded in 1941
*1936 Tampa Kid (Decca records)
*1936 Sam Montgomery (ARC records)
*1939 Leonard 'Baby Doo' Caston
*1960 Mance Lipscomb (Arhoolie)
*1962 Mose Allison (Atlantic)(Rhino)
*1962 Bob Dylan, officially released 2005 as a download only
*1964 Them (Decca UK)
*1967 Amboy Dukes
*1975 AC/DC (Alberts/EMI)
*2004 Aerosmith
*The Clash (frequently played at sound checks, Strummer had performed Gloria with his previous band, the 101'ers)
*Budgie
*Zakk Wylde's Pride & Glory
*Paul Butterfield
*The Doors
*Tony Joe White
*Beausoleil
*Lightnin' Hopkins
*Al Kooper
*John Mellencamp
*Van Morrison
*Ted Nugent
*Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
*Paul Revere & the Raiders
*Taste
*Muddy Waters
*The Animals
*Bill Wyman
*The Damn Fine Band
*John Lee Hooker
*Mississippi Fred McDowell
*Gary Glitter
*The Tragically Hip (live version found on the popular Bootleg Roxy Revisited)

References

External links

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