Find My Baby
by Moby

Album: Play (1999)
Play Video

Songfacts®:

  • In 2000 this was released as the ninth and final single from Play. It barely troubled the charts in most countries but fared the best in Belgium, where it peaked at #4.
  • Moby explained this track to Rolling Stone: "Basically just me playing slide guitar over a vocal sample. I added what I thought were hip-hop drums to it. In the '80s I was DJing a lot of hip-hip. At one point I was working at Mars and I used to keep a microphone by the turntables. Big Daddy Kane and Run-D.M.C. and 3rd Bass and Flavor Flav and everybody would go to this club and get drunk, and I had the microphone. I was the weird white DJ for all these rappers where were drinking and rapping to impress their girlfriends."
  • Play received little recognition from music journalists and radio stations upon its release, so Moby decided to license all of the album's songs for advertising and movies to get them heard, which ultimately led to the album blowing up and becoming a global hit. This tune in particular was used in a commercial for American Express, which featured Tiger Woods playing golf in New York City.

    It also showed up in the 1999 movie Any Given Sunday and the TV series Charmed in the 2000 episode "Ms. Hellfire." In 2001, it was used in the Colin Farrell flick American Outlaws.
  • This is built around a vocal sample from Boy Blue's "Joe Lee's Rock," which Moby discovered on Sounds of the South: A Musical Journey from the Georgia Sea Islands to the Mississippi Delta, a collection of field recordings by ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax. Lomax recorded the 1959 performance at a bar called Old Whisky Store, where B.B. King was also known to play, in Hughes, Arkansas. Moby also used Lomax's recordings in the Play tracks "Honey" and "Natural Blues."
  • The music video, directed by the team Barnaby & Scott ("Raspberry Swirl"), takes us behind the scenes of a new video by the all-baby band y-mob. The trio is made up of Sean Puff, a 13-month-old guitar player who loves carrot soup and the Julia Roberts movie Sleeping With The Enemy; Dr. Tre, the 16-month-old frontman with a penchant for chips and beer; and Jago Moon, the 12-month-old drummer who can't get enough of chili chickpeas and the movie Go.

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