COMIN' HOME BABY

Created on 01/06/2005
Latest update on 29/08/2023

Artist: Dave Bailey Quintet
Author: Ben Tucker
Label: Epic
Year: 1961

On album Two Feet In The Gutter, six weeks prior to Herbie Mann. As an instrumental with author Ben Tucker on bass.

Covers:

1961:

Herbie Mann [Live At The Village Gate, also instrumental and again with Ben Tucker]

1962:

Quincy Jones

1962:

Mel Tormé [first vocal version; lyricist: Bob Dorough]

1962:

Booker T. & The MG's

1963:

Kai Winding

1963:

Sylvie Vartan [as Ne t'en vas pas]

1964:

Travis Wammack [as instrumental Scratchy]

1964:

Skatalites [as Christine Keeler; instrumental produced by Coxsone Dodd]

1967:

Casey & His Group [alias Cees Schrama; used by DJ Tom Collins in his Radio Veronica show; also used as tune for the Rob Out Show, also on Veronica]

1967:

Jan Akkerman

1968:

Peddlers

1969:

Affinity [instrumental]

1973:

Peters & Lee [Lennie Peters (uncle of Charlie Watts) and Diane Lee on album We Can Make It (n°1 UK)]

1978:

Danny Gatton

1979:

Eddie Lockjaw Davis

1999:

Fleshtones

2004:

Bob Dorough [wrote the lyrics]

2005:

Bo-Keys

2007:

Michael Bublé & Boyz II Men

2011:

Fleshtones

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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