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The Beatpack - My Baby Left Me (Arthur Crudup Cover)

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Channel: CoverVerse · 2011 · Music

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From '' Cryptic Tymes Presents Tunes From The Crypt ''
Label: Cryptic Tymes – CT 001
Format: Cassette, Compilation
Country: Canada
Released: 1990

Tracklist
A1 The Marshmallow Overcoat - Cinderella
A2 The Smugglers - 5-4-3-2-1
A3 The 14th Wray - The Man Who Lives Next Door
Lyrics By [Uncredited] – Alan Wright
Music By [Uncredited] – Greg Watson
A4 The Beatpack - My Baby Left Me
A5 The Cattle - Little Black Egg (Live)
Songwriter [Uncredited] – Chuck Conlon
A6 The Prehistoric Cave Strokers - Cave Bangin' (Live)
A7 The Silent Mercenaries - I Wanna Be An Accountant
A8 Captain Crunch - You Don't Exist In Transit
A9 The Mourning After - Pauline (Live)
A10 The Jig Saw Seen - Eight Lancashire Lads
A11 Misc. "S" - Cream Soda Kill! Kill!
B1 The Stand - Losing My Frustrations
B2 Sanity Assassins - Once Upon A Time...
B3 The Screaming Daisies - Caught Within Your Game
B4 The Nightstalkers - Too Many Images
B5 1313 Mockingbird Lane - Pretty Boy (Live)
B6 Fish Karma - I'm So Lonesome, I Could Cry
B7 The Big Scary Daddies - Shrimp Aren't Vegetables
B8 Deja Voodoo - Swamp Of Love (Live)
B9 Al Perry - Dancing Bear
B10 The Hurtin' Kind - Look Inside

Compiled By – Dr. Weasel, Madam X

Cover, Mastered By – Dr. Weasel

Notes
Printed on either red or neon yellow paper.

Discrepancies:
Track A4 is titled "My Baby Left Me" on the sleeve versus "The Baby Left Me" on the label.
Track A8 is attributed to Captain Crunch on the sleeve versus Capt. Crunch on the label.
Track A10 is titled "Eight Lancashire Lads" on the sleeve versus "Lancashire Lads" on the label.
Track B2 is titled "Once Upon A Time..." on the sleeve versus "Once Upon A Time" on the label.
Track B2 is written twice on the label.
Track B4 is attributed to The Nightstalkers on the sleeve versus Nightstalker on the label.
Tracks A5, A6, A9, B5, and B8 are all listed as being live on the sleeve but not on the labels.
The artist names for tracks A6, A7, A10, B3, and B7 all have the prefix "The" on the sleeve but not on the labels.

Copyright © – Cryptic Tymes Productions


🎵 [SONG INFO]

''My Baby Left Me'' is a rhythm and blues song written by blues singer Arthur Crudup in the late 1940s.

It gained further exposure in covers by Elvis Presley, who placed his version on the b-side to his 1956 single "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You";
by Creedence Clearwater Revival, who recorded it as a track on their 1970 album, Cosmo's Factory;
and by John Lennon (mis-titled "Since My Baby Left Me"), recorded for the Rock 'n' Roll-sessions in 1973, but only released posthumously on Menlove Ave.

in 1986. It was also a No. 37 UK chart hit in 1964 for Dave Berry and the Cruisers.

Slade Version

"My Baby Left Me" was covered by rock band Slade and released as a single in 1977 as a tribute to Elvis Presley who died a couple of months before. It was written by blues artist Arthur Crudup. The single peaked at No. 32 in the UK, spending 4 weeks on the chart. It became Slade's last charting single until their career revival in 1980. The single fared better than Slade's previous single Gypsy Roadhog which only peaked at No. 48.

The Slade version of My Baby Left Me also merged another Crudup written track titled That's All Right.

The track had a music video created to promote the single. The track was performed on Top of The Pops and German show Disco Club.

The single peaked at No. 788 for 1977 on rateyourmusic.

Background

In 1977, when "My Baby Left Me" was recorded, guitarist Dave Hill was busy doing interviews up in the North of England, thus he was unavailable to record the lead guitar and backing vocals track for the single. Evidently Jim Lea stood in for him, and appears in Hill's place on the finished recording.

The song's video was voted No. 2 of the top three Slade music videos in the Slade Fan Club Poll of 1979. In the same poll, the single was voted No. 1 of the top three Slade single sleeves.


🎤 [LYRICS]

Well my baby left me she never said a word
Was it something I done or something that she heard
You know she left me, yeah she left me
My baby she even left me she never said a word.

Now I stand at my window wring my hand and cry
I hate to lose that woman I hate to say goodbye
You know she left me, yeah she left me
My baby she even left me she never said a word.

One of these mornings Lord, it wont be long
You look for me and baby daddy i'll be gone
You know she left me, yeah she left me
My baby she even left me she never said a word.

Now I stand at my window wring my hand and moan
All I know is that the one I love is gone
You know she left me, yeah she left me
My baby she even left me she never said a word.

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