BABE (I'M GONNA LEAVE YOU)
Created on 23/05/2006Latest update on 16/05/2023
Artist: Anne Bredon
Author: Anne Bredon
Label: demo
Year: 1959
Real name: Anne Loeb, married to Glen Bredon.
Covers:
- 1962:
Joan Baez [for Vanguard on live lp In Concert with no credits; Joan picked it up at a hootenanny at Oberlin College hearing Janet Smith sing the song, who personally managed to straighten things right; re-releases do mention the author's name]
- 1963:
- 1964:
Plebs [first British cover on Decca]
- 1965:
- 1966:
- 1968:
- 1969:
Led Zeppelin [not crediting Brendon initially; see footnote]
- 1970:
Chicago [used elements from Led Zep's Babe I'm Gonna Leave You in their 25 Or 6 To 4]
- 1976:
- 1991:
- 2007:
- 2013:
P!nk [live]
- 2022:
Beth Hart [in medley with No Quarter]
CD reissues of the Led Zeppelin cover co-credit the real songwriter, thanks to the same Janet Smith, whose son kept wondering why his out-and-out folk mother sang a damned Led Zeppelin song over and over again. One claim addressed to Page & Plant settled the case. They only knew that In Concert album, where no author was mentioned, and assumed it was a traditional.
