Baby Come Back (Player song)

"Baby Come Back"
Single by Player
from the album Player
B-side	"Love Is Where You Find It"
Released	October 13, 1977
Format	7"
Recorded	1977
Genre	Soft rock, pop rock
Length	4:14
Label	Philips RSO
Writer(s)	Peter Beckett and J.C. Crowley
Producer(s)	Dennis Lambert Brian Potter
Certification	Gold (RIAA)
Player singles chronology
"Baby Come Back" (1977) "This Time I'm in It for Love" (1977)

"Baby Come Back" is a song recorded by the American rock band Player. It was released in late 1977 as the first single from their self-titled first studio album. The song was their biggest single, hitting number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 10 on the soul charts, in 1978. It was the breakthrough single for the band, gaining them mainstream success, and hit number one, knocking label-mates The Bee Gees' "How Deep Is Your Love" from the top spot. Written by lead singer Peter Beckett and J.C. Crowley, the founders of Player, and sung by Beckett, it is listed 8th in the Top Ten Yacht rock Songs Of All Time.

Personnel

• Peter Beckett: Lead Vocals, Lead and Rhythm Guitars
• J.C. Crowley: Backing Vocals, Keyboards
• Ronn Moss: Backing Vocals, Bass Guitar
• John Friesen: Drums, Percussion

Uses in other media

In 1997, Lisa Stansfield released the song as a bonus track on the Japanese version of her self-titled album.

The song has been used in the film Safe Men (1998). In 2011, it was the source of a parody by Chicago artist, Magic 1, entitled "Cutty Come Back", which alludes to the Chicago Bears' woes without quarterback Jay Cutler.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The song is also used in the Michael Bay blockbuster Transformers, when the Autobot Bumblebee communicates with its new owner Sam Witwicky through songs on the radio. In this case, after an incident with the girl he is attracted to, Mikaela, gets out of the car and Sam tries to persuade her to "come back". The lyrics of the song are expected to accomplish this desire, as laid out by the filmmakers, though it is unlikely given the context that she would actually come back anyway.

Actress/singer, Vanessa Hudgens, sampled the song in her debut single, "Come Back To Me" on her debut album, V in 2006.

In The Simpsons episode "Homer Alone," when Homer calls the "Department of Missing Babies" after losing Maggie, the hold music is a newly recorded version of the song, by Peter Beckett and J.C. Crowley.

The song was featured in a 2011 Australian commercial for the Toyota Hilux.^[6]

The song was also used in a Swiffer commercial in the U.S.

This song was sung by Hank Hill and Elroy "Lucky" Kleinschmidt in the Point After Lounge in the "Church Hopping" episode of King of the Hill.

On a May 2014 episode of General Hospital, precocious Spencer Cassadine attempted to woo back Emma Scorpio-Drake by hiring Player to perform the song at the Nurses Ball. Spencer's great-grandmother Lesley Webber was supposedly a groupie of the band in the 1970s.

In 2016, Peter Beckett performed a parody "Brady Come Back" on The Herd with Colin Cowherd about the return of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady from suspension.

• In 1992 Italian singer Vincent Thoma made a Pop/Soul cover of this wonderful song. This version can be found in Thoma's 1992 album Hollywood Café.

Chart performance

Weekly singles charts Chart (1977–78) Peak position Australia KMR [7] 15 Canada Top Singles (RPM)[8] 1 Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[9] 21 New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[10] 4 UK Singles (The Official Charts Company)[11] 32 U.S. Billboard Hot 100[12] 1 U.S. Billboard Hot Soul Singles[12] 10 U.S. Cash Box Top 100[13] 1

Year-end charts Chart (1978) Rank Australia [7] 73 Canada [14] 44 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [15] 7 U.S. Cash Box [16] 14

References

1. "Cutty Come Back". YouTube. 2011-12-03. Retrieved 2012-02-29.
2. "Jay Cutler Injury Song: Listen to Epic Slow Jam "Cutty Come Back"". Bleacher Report. 2012-01-01. Retrieved 2012-02-29.
4. "Chicago Saturday sing-along: "Cutty Come Back" - NFL.com". Blogs.nfl.com. 2011-12-10. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
5. "'Cutty come back': Parody bemoans Cutler's absence". Chicago Tribune. 2011-12-08.
6. "Baby Come Back-Toyota HiLux 2011". YouTube. 2011-11-11. Retrieved 2013-01-22.
7. Steffen Hung. "Forum - 1970 (ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts)". Australian-charts.com. Archived from the original on 2016-06-02. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
8. "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
9. "Nederlandse Top 40 – Player search results" (in Dutch) Dutch Top 40.
10. "Charts.org.nz – Player – Baby Come Back". Top 40 Singles.
11. Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
12. Ankeny, Jason. "Player". AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-02-29.
14. "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
15. "Top 100 Hits of 1978/Top 100 Songs of 1978". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
16. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-11-03.

Bibliography

• Joel Whitburn's Presents Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004, 2004, Record Research Inc., ISBN 978-0898201604

External links

• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics