There Goes My Baby (The Drifters song)#Donna Summer version
{{short description|1959 single by The Drifters}}
{{Infobox song
| name = There Goes My Baby
| image = There Goes My Baby by The Drifters US 7-inch 45 RPM Side-A.png
| alt =
| caption = One of side-A labels of the US 7-inch (45 RPM) single
| type = single
| artist = The Drifters
| album = The Drifters' Greatest Hits
| B-side = Oh My Love
| released = April 24, 1959
| recorded = March 6, 1959
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Soul, rhythm and blues, doo-wop
| length = {{Duration|m=2|s=08}}
| label = Atlantic
| writer = Benjamin Nelson, Lover Patterson, George Treadwell{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-20110407/the-drifters-there-goes-my-baby-20110526|title=The Drifters, 'There Goes My Baby' {{!}} 500 Greatest Songs of All Time|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=2011-04-07|access-date=2018-05-05|language=en}}
| producer = Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
| prev_title = Drip Drop
| prev_year = 1958
| next_title = (If You Cry) True Love, True Love"/"Dance with Me
| next_year = 1959
}}
"There Goes My Baby" is a song written by Ben E. King (Benjamin Earl Nelson), Lover Patterson, George Treadwell and produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller for The Drifters. This was the first single by the second incarnation of the Drifters (previously known as the 5 Crowns), who assumed the group name in 1958 after manager George Treadwell fired the remaining members of the original lineup. The Atlantic Records release was Ben E. King's debut recording as the lead singer of the group.
History
Leiber and Stoller used a radically different approach to production from what Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler had employed with the original Clyde McPhatter-led Drifters. The combination of new style and new group fit, and the song reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100, behind "A Big Hunk o' Love" by Elvis Presley.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1959-08-17|title=The Hot 100 Chart|magazine=Billboard}} "There Goes My Baby" also hit number one on the Billboard R&B chart.{{cite book |title= Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=173}} On the Cash Box sales chart, it likewise went to number one for two weeks, in the summer of 1959.
Song
The lyrics are loosely structured, almost free-form at a time when rhyming lines were mandatory. The accompaniment features a violin section playing saxophone-like riffs in rock and roll style. The lead voice is in high gospel-style.{{cite book
| first=Charlie
| last=Gillett
| year= 1996
| title= The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll
| edition= (2nd Ed.)
| publisher= Da Capo Press
| location=New York, N.Y.
| pages= 192–194
| isbn= 0-306-80683-5}}
::(There goes my baby) Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh
::(There goes my baby) Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
::(There goes my baby) Whoa-oh-oh-oh
::(There she goes) Yeah! (There she goes){{cite web|url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19763/m1/ |title=Show 14 - Big Rock Candy Mountain: Rock 'n' roll in the late fifties. [Part 4] : UNT Digital Library |last=Gilliland
|first=John
|year=1969
|author-link=John Gilliland
|work=Pop Chronicles
|publisher=Digital.library.unt.edu
|format=audio
|access-date=2011-05-02}}
Legacy
This recording introduced the idea of using strings, a Brazilian baion and elaborate production values on an R&B recording to enhance the emotional power of black music. The string arrangement is by Stan Applebaum.[https://theartofrockmusic.voices.wooster.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/180/2015/01/There-Goes-My-Baby-The-Drifters-1959.pdf "There Goes My Baby", The Art of Rock Music] This pointed the way to the coming era of soul music as the popularity of the doo-wop vocal groups peaked and faded. Phil Spector studied this production model under Leiber and Stoller.{{cite book
| editor-first1= Anthony
| editor-last1 = DeCurtis
| editor-first2= James
| editor-last2 = Henke
| editor-first3= Holly
| editor-last3 = George-Warren
| year= 1976
| title= The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll
| edition= 3rd
| publisher= Random House
| location=New York
| pages= 148–149
| isbn= 0-679-73728-6 }}
In 2010, the song was ranked #196 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.{{cite magazine |title=Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-20110407/the-drifters-there-goes-my-baby-20110526 |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=April 2010 |access-date=September 25, 2015}} The song has been covered by many artists, including Jay and the Americans, the Walker Brothers, and The Walkmen. The song was included in the musical revue Smokey Joe's Cafe.
Charts
| class="wikitable sortable"
! Chart (1959) ! Peak |
| US Billboard Hot 100{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1959-08-15 |title= Billboard Hot 100 Week of August 17, 1959 |magazine= Billboard |access-date=July 30, 2020}}
| style="text-align:center;"|2 |
| US Billboard Hot R&B Sides{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/r-b-hip-hop-songs/1959-07-27 |title= Billboard Hot 100 Week of July 27, 1959 |magazine= Billboard |access-date=July 30, 2020}}
| style="text-align:center;"|1 |
Donna Summer version
{{Infobox song
| name = There Goes My Baby
| cover = Donnatheregoesmybaby.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Donna Summer
| album = Cats Without Claws
| B-side = Maybe It's Over
| released = July 5, 1984
| recorded =
| studio =
| venue =
| genre =
- Rock{{cite journal|title= Fall Preview |date= 27 August 1984 |journal= People |url= http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20088525,00.html |volume= 22 |issue= 9 |quote= such post-disco rock tracks as Supernatural Love and There Goes My Baby |issn= 0093-7673}}
- post-disco
- synth-pop{{Cite podcast|url=https://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/hit_parade/2017/11/donna_summer_s_three_decade_chart_reign.html|title= Queen of Disco Edition|website=Hit Parade {{!}} Music History and Music Trivia|publisher=Slate|last=Molanphy|first=Chris|date=November 27, 2017|access-date=July 13, 2023}}
| length = {{Duration|m=4|s=05}}
| label = Geffen (U.S.)
Warner Bros. (Europe)
| writer = Benjamin Nelson, Lover Patterson, George Treadwell, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller
| producer = Michael Omartian
| prev_title = Love Has a Mind of Its Own
| prev_year = 1984
| next_title = Supernatural Love
| next_year = 1984
| misc = {{External music video|type=single|header=Music video|1={{YouTube|11LzTieJvRA|"There Goes My Baby"}}}}
}}
Donna Summer's version of "There Goes My Baby" was issued as the first single on July 5, 1984, from her 1984 album Cats Without Claws by Geffen Records and Warner Bros. Records. Her rendition was produced by Michael Omartian. The single became a moderate hit, peaking at #21 on the US Hot 100, and in the top twenty of the US R&B chart. It also peaked #15 in Spain Radio chart.{{cite book|first=Fernando|last=Salaverri|title=Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002|edition=1st|date=September 2005|publisher=Fundación Autor-SGAE|location=Spain|isbn=84-8048-639-2}} Summer's version of this song features an electro-pop sound and was accompanied by a high-quality music video featuring Summer and husband Bruce Sudano as a down-on-their-luck couple at the outbreak of World War II. The video was played in heavy rotation on the MTV network, becoming the last Summer video to achieve this. With this single, Summer earned her nineteenth - and second to last - US Top 40 hit.
= Charts =
| class="wikitable sortable"
! Chart (1984) ! Peak |
| Australia (Kent Music Report){{cite book|first= David |last= Kent |author-link= David Kent (historian) |title= Australian Chart Book 1970-1992 |publisher= Australian Chart Book |location= St Ives, N.S.W. |year= 1993 |isbn= 0-646-11917-6}}
| style="text-align:center;"|52 |
| {{single chart|Canadatopsingles|31|chartid=8724|access-date=July 30, 2020}} |
| {{single chart|Canadaadultcontemporary|23|chartid=8974|access-date=July 30, 2020}} |
| {{single chart|Dutch100|31|song=There Goes My Baby|artist=Donna Summer|access-date=July 30, 2020}} |
| {{single chart|Dutch40|31|song=There Goes My Baby|artist=Donna Summer|access-date=July 30, 2020}} |
| Spain (Los 40 Principales)
| style="text-align:center;"|15 |
| {{single chart|UKsinglesbyname|99|song=There Goes My Baby|artist=Donna Summer|artistid=16574|access-date=July 30, 2020}} |
| {{single chart|Billboardhot100|21|artist=Donna Summer|access-date=July 30, 2020}} |
| {{single chart|Billboardrandbhiphop|20|artist=Donna Summer|access-date=July 30, 2020}} |
References
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{{The Drifters (American band)}}
{{Jay and the Americans}}
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Category:Songs written by Ben E. King
Category:Songs written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
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Category:Cashbox number-one singles
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