Star Baby

Album: Road Food (1974)
Charted: 39
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: BURTON CUMMINGS
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Comments: 6

  • Jim from Dalton GaI always thought this was Burton's response to Randy Bachman's "Taking Care of Business" after he left the band and formed BTO.
  • Dan from Grandville, MichiganNot that I'm one to be repeating gossip (so listen close the first time), but the rumor was that the female subject was in fact, the singer Bonnie Bramlett, of Delaney & Bonnie. She actually opened for TGW when I saw them in Chicago.
  • Dan from Grandville, MichiganAccording to the typical "Star Baby" song introduction by Burton Cummings, this song actually was in particular, about "an ex-member of the band and his relationship with a famous 'star baby'".
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn April 5th 1974, the Guess Who hosted a celebrity tennis tournament in Toronto, Canada to benefit 'The Ballet of Canada'...
    At the time the group's "Star Baby" was at #49 on Billboard's Hot Top 100; nine days later on April 14th it would peak at #39 {for 1 week} and it spent 19 weeks on the Top 100...
    And in their native Canada on April 20th it reached #9 {for 3 weeks} on the RPM Singles chart...
    Between 1965 and 1974 they had twenty-one Top 100 records, six made the Top 10 with one reaching #1, "American Woman" for 3 weeks in 1970...
    In Canada they had sixteen Top 10 records, with five reaching #1 and one peaking at #2.
  • Kelley from Owensboro, KyDoes anyone know if this song is referring to a specific female singer?
  • Les from Joplin, MoThis song reached as high as #30 on the Cash Box chart. In Canada, where The Guess Who is from, this song reached #9. In Chicago it reached #4 on the WLS chart of 5-18-74.
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