There Goes My Baby

Album: Greatest Hits (1959)
Charted: 2
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  • (Bo-bo, doo-doot-doo-doo-doo-doo)
    (There she goes) (doo-doot-doo-doo-doo-doo)
    (There she goes) (doo-doot-doo-doo-doo-doo)
    (Bo-bo) (doo-doot-doo-doo)
    (Bo-bo) (doo-doo-doo-doo)

    There goes my baby, movin' on down the line
    Wonder where, wonder where, wonder where she is bound?
    I broke her heart and made her cry
    Now I'm alone, so all alone
    What can I do, what can I do?

    (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)

    I want to know if she loved me (there she goes)
    Did she really love me?
    Was she just playing me for a fool?

    I wonder why she left me
    Why did she leave me so all alone
    So all alone

    I just wanna tell her that I loved her
    And that I need her
    Beside my side to be my guide

    I want to know where is my (doo-doot-doo-doo-doo-doo)
    Where is my baby (doo-doot-doo-doo-doo-doo)
    I want my baby
    I need my baby

    Yeah, whoa-oh-oh (there goes my baby)
    (There goes my baby)
    (There goes my baby) whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh Writer/s: Ben King, George Treadwell, Jerry Leiber, Lover Patterson, Mike Stoller
    Publisher: BELINDA ABERBACH STEVENSON AGAR REVOCABLE TRUST, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Comments: 3

  • Paul Osman from Liverpool, EnglandI'm not sure if this is the first string backed pop record as it's possible Buddy Holly pre dated the Drifters as his death occurred some months prior to TGMB being recorded, although the strings on Holly's songs could have been posthumously added They should h ave fired the ttympanist who ruined this song. It's a pity the song didn't have the orchestral backing the Walker Brothers used on their cover
    The Electric Light Orchestra song 10538 Overture from 1971 was similarly jarring as the orchestra was a "rock" group playing classical instruments. The Drifters ELOs later works weree better arranged and performed. But it ttympanist should have stayed away !
  • Slow from EarthI dont understand who left whom. first chapter its the speaker. last chapter its her. does it matter at all? or is it just a mood song
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn May 29th 1959, the Drifters appeared in concert* at Herndon Stadium at Atlanta, Georgia...
    Two days later on June 1st "There Goes My Baby", with Ben E. King singing lead, entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #98; eleven weeks later on August 17th, 1959 it would peak at #2 {for 1 week} and it stayed on the chart for 19 weeks...
    The week that "There Goes My Baby" was at #2 on the Top 100, the #1 record for that week was "A Big Hunk O' Love" by Elvis...
    And on July 21st, 1959 it reached #1 {for 1 week} on Billboard's R&B Singles chart...
    Between 1954 and 1966 the super group had thirty-six Top 100 records; five made the Top 10 with one reaching #1, "Save the Last Dance for Me" for three non-consecutive weeks on October 17th, 1960...
    * Many rock historians consider this to be the first rock 'n roll outdoor music festival; other acts on the bill with the Drifters were Ray Charles, B.B. King, and Jimmy Reed.
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