My Baby (Cold Chisel song)

"My Baby"
Single by Cold Chisel
from the album East
A-side	"My Baby"
B-side	"Misfits"
Released	August 1980
Format	7" vinyl
Recorded	1980
Genre	Pop
Label	WEA
Writer(s)	Phil Small
Producer	Mark Opitz
Cold Chisel singles chronology
"Cheap Wine" (1980) "My Baby" (1980) "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (1981)

"My Baby" was a 1980 single from Australian rock band Cold Chisel, the third released from the album East and the first of the band's singles not to be written by organist Don Walker. This was the only track credited solely to bass player Phil Small on any of the band's albums apart from "Notion For You" on the 1994 rarities album Teenage Love (Small co-wrote "The Game" from Twentieth Century with Walker).

The song proved to be one of the band's most popular, featuring a clearly defined pop sound quite different from Cold Chisel's more usual hard-edged rock. Guitarist Ian Moss provides lead vocals and Joe Camilleri of Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons contributed a saxophone solo. While "My Baby" was the third single released from East in Australia, in the U.S. it was the first. Promotional copies sent to radio stations there were wrapped in a baby's nappy as a marketing gimmick. It was the only Cold Chisel single to chart in America, reaching 32 on the Mainstream Rock chart.^[1] It spent 14 weeks in the Australian charts, peaking at number 40.^[2]

On the 2007 tribute album Standing on the Outside: The Songs of Cold Chisel, "My Baby" was covered by Thirsty Merc.

References

1. ^ "Cold Chisel - Billboard Singles". allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p16572/charts-awards/billboard-singles. Retrieved 6 August 2010. 
2. ^ David Kent (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970-1992. St Ives, New South Wales: Australian Chart Book. p. 72. ISBN 0646119176.