Don't Say Nothin' Bad (About My Baby)

Album: The Dimension Dolls (1963)
Charted: 7
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  • Don't say nothin' bad about my baby
    Oh, no
    Don't say nothin' bad about my baby
    I love him so
    Don't say nothin' bad about my baby
    Oh, don't you know
    Don't say nothin' bad about my baby
    He's good (he's good), he's good to me (good to me)
    That's all I care about
    Oh, no

    Don't you tell me my baby's just a playboy
    It isn't true
    Don't you tell me my baby's just a playboy
    That's a lie
    I don't listen to a single word they say, boy
    He's my guy
    Don't you tell me my baby's just a playboy
    He's true (he's true), he's true to me (true to me)

    So, girl
    You'd better ship him out
    Everybody says he's lazy
    But not when he's kissin' me
    Everybody says he's crazy
    Sure, he's crazy, crazy 'bout me Writer/s: Carole King, Gerry Goffin
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Comments: 5

  • Moanin' Lisa from Chillicothe Mo.Sacre bleu !! Man, does this Cookies song bring back the memories! The lead singer had such a distinctive, sexy voice. Me & my cousins Minnie and Big Candee loved singing their songs back in high school. Weren't the Cookies the background singers on some of Little Eva's recordings? Thru the years, I heard that an Earle-Jean McCrea was their lead singer, from various radio DJs back in the 60s. True or false? They had IIsuch great vocal harmony. I didn't know they became Ray Charles's Raelettes. In 1986, I saw the great Ray Charles in concert in Little Rock Arkansas & at the time I didn't even realize the Raelettes were formerly The Cookies. I still hear their songs on "oldies radio."
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn March 15th 1963, the Cookies began a week long engagement at the Apollo Theater in Harlem in New York City...
    At the time the trio's "Don't Say Nothin' Bad (About My Baby)" was at #54 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; the following month on April 21st it peaked at #7 on the chart {See next post below}.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn February 24th 1963, "Don't Say Nothin' Bad (About My Baby)" by the Cookies entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #96; and on April 21st it peaked at #7 (for 2 weeks) and spent 13 weeks on the Top 100...
    It reached #3 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart...
    The group had three other records make the Top 100; "Chains" (#17), "Will Power" (#72), and "Girls Grow Up Faster Than Boys" (#33)...
    The original three members of the trio (Dorothy Jones, Ethel McCrea, and Beulah Robertson) would later become The Raelettes, the backing vocalists for the great Ray Charles.
  • John P. Tamburro from Maywood, NjThis is a great song with a great beat. I really like how the background singers drive the song while the lead singer sings in a soft and sexy voice. It should have hit number 1 in 1963.
  • Gretchen from Lafayette, CaThis song was performed nicely in the movie "The Best of Times" with Robin Williams and Kurt Russell
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