Have Mercy Baby

Have Mercy Baby

Infobox Single
Name =Have Mercy Baby


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Artist =Billy Ward and the Dominoes
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B-side ="Deep Sea Blues"
Released =April 1952
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Recorded =January 28, 1952
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Label =Federal Records
Writer =Billy Ward, Rose Marks
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Last single ="That's What You're Doing To Me"
(1952)
This single ="Have Mercy Baby"
(1952)
Next single ="No Room"
(1952)
Misc = "Have Mercy Baby" is a popular rhythm and blues song, written by Billy Ward and Rose Marks, recorded by The Dominoes in Cincinnati, produced by Ralph Bass, and released by Federal Records in 1952. It was Number One on the R&B Charts for 10 weeks. Influenced by the recordings of Hank Ballard and Little Richard and its lead singer Clyde McPhatter, its importance lies in that it was the first popular R&B recording highlighting passionate black gospel music features.cite book
first=& Steve Propes
last= Jim Dawson
authorlink=
coauthors=
year= 1992
title= What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record
edition=
publisher= Faber & Faber
location= Boston & London
pages= pp 105-108
id=ISBN 0-571-12939-0 ]

Description

Clyde McPhatter's roots were in the black church. The song is essentially the gospel song "Have Mercy, Jesus" sung in the call-and-response style of a gospel quartet, although it is in the straight twelve-bar blues form that gospel singers disdained. In the first chorus McPhatter simply follows the melody, but subsequently he freely improvises in the gospel style with short but spectacular melismas, stringing out phrases to overlap the backup singers responses, interjecting screams and "yeahs", shouting a gospel funk. The backup band lays down the rhythm and provides the expected tenor sax solo.cite book
first= Anthony Decurtis (Eds.)
last= Holly George-Warren &
authorlink=
coauthors=
year= 1976
title= The RollingStone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll
edition= 3rd Edition
publisher= Random House
location=New York
pages= pp 18-20
id= ISBN 0-679-73728-6 ]

Impact

The Dominoes' version of "Have Mercy Baby" was the definitive rhythm and gospel record. Other significant recordings of the song were made by The Bobbettes (1960) and James Brown (1965).

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