{"id":2306,"date":"2021-12-04T17:42:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T17:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/12\/04\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-babe-and-baby-songs\/"},"modified":"2021-12-04T17:42:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T17:42:32","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-babe-and-baby-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/12\/04\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-babe-and-baby-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: ‘Babe’ and ‘Baby’ Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

With half-apologies to overly sensitive feministas. Look, real men love and respect women and they use these words as terms  of endearment. Take a powder!<\/span><\/p>\n

Sonny and Cher, I Got You Babe<\/a>, 1965. Don't let them say your hair's too long!<\/span><\/p>\n

Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, It Ain't Me Babe<\/a>, 1964. Note how Joan mothers the young Bob. Turtles' 1965 cover<\/a>. Baez solo version<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bob Dylan, It's All Over Now, Baby Blue<\/a>, 1965. This one goes out to Charaine H.<\/span><\/p>\n

Beatles, Baby's in Black<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Ronettes, Be My Baby<\/a>, 1963.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bob Dylan, Baby Let Me Follow You Down<\/a>, 1962. The surging harmonica near the beginning does it for me every time. <\/span><\/p>\n

Traveling Wilburys, She's My Baby<\/a>, 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n

Charles Brown, Merry Christmas, Baby<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Dion Dimucci with John Hammond, My Baby Loves to Boogie<\/a>, 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

Beach Boys, Don't Worry Baby<\/a>, 1964.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bob Dylan, I'll Be Your Baby Tonight<\/a>, 1968.<\/span><\/p>\n

Them, Baby Please Don't Go<\/a>.  Muddy Waters<\/a>, 1953.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bruce Channel, Hey Baby!<\/a> Date? Early '60s.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ronettes, Baby, I Love You<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Drifters, There Goes My Baby<\/a>, 1959.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shirelles, Baby it's You<\/a>, 1961.<\/span><\/p>\n

Turtles, You Baby<\/a>, 1966.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dino Paul Crocetti, better known as Dean Martin, Melancholy Baby<\/a>. From Steubenville, Ohio, if memory serves, as it usually does.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dave Bagwill, my favorite Oregon luthier, recommends:<\/span><\/p>\n

Baby Love – Supremes<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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You Don't Have to be a Baby to Cry – The Caravelles<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With half-apologies to overly sensitive feministas. Look, real men love and respect women and they use these words as terms  of endearment. Take a powder! Sonny and Cher, I Got You Babe, 1965. Don't let them say your hair's too long! Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, It Ain't Me Babe, 1964. Note how Joan mothers … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: ‘Babe’ and ‘Baby’ Songs”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}