Hey! Baby
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Hey! Baby is a 1962 song by Bruce Channel. The Beatles covered it live in 1962. No recording of The Beatles' version exists. Ringo Starr covered it as a solo artist.
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Live Performances
Hey! Baby was one of the songs in The Beatles' 1962 live set that John Lennon played harmonica on. Lennon recalled in 1970, "I played a lot of harmonica and mouth organ when I was a child. Love Me Do is rock 'n' roll, pretty funky: the gimmick is the harmonica. (There had been Hey! Baby and then there was a terrible thing called I Remember You, and we did those numbers, so we started using it on Love Me Do just for arrangements.) And then we stuck it on Please Please Me and then we stuck it on From Me To You, and then we dropped it; it got embarassing." On Hey! Baby, Lennon used a special kind of harmonica. Lennon recalled in 1974, "I remember Brian Jones [of The Rolling Stones] came up and said, 'Are you playing a harmonica or a harp on Love Me Do?' because he knew I'd got this bottom note. I said, 'A harmonica with a button,' which wasn't really funky-blues enough; but you couldn't get Hey! Baby licks on a blues harp and we were also doing Hey! Baby by Bruce Channel."
Personnel (For The Beatles' Version)
- Lead Vocals: Paul McCartney
- Harmonica: John Lennon
Available Versions
Ringo Starr
- Master Take, 1976, (Rotogravure)
Source
- LEWISOHN M., 1992, The Complete Beatles Chronicle, Hamlyn -- Buy it on Amazon.com
- LENNON, J., MCCARTNEY P., HARRION G., STARKEY R., 2002, The Beatles Anthology, Chronicle Books -- Buy it on Amazon.com
