Since I Met You Baby (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Since I Met You Baby


Artist = Ivory Joe Hunter
from Album =
Released = 1956 (U.S.)
Format = 7"
Recorded = 1956
Genre = rhythm and blues, pop
Length = 2:41
Label = Atlantic Records
Writer = Ivory Joe Hunter
Producer =
Certification =
Chart position =

• #1 (Billboard Rhythm and Blues Records)
  
• #12 (Billboard Hot 100)
  Last single =
  This single =
  Next single =

  Infobox Single
  Name = Since I Met You Baby
  
  
  Artist = Sonny James
  from Album = The Astrodome Presents in Person Sonny James
  Released = August 1969 (U.S.)
  Format = 7"
  Recorded = 1969
  Genre = Country
  Length = 2:48
  Label = Capitol Records
  Writer = Ivory Joe Hunter
  Producer = George Richey
  Certification =
  Chart position =

  • #1 (Billboard Hot Country Singles)
    Last single = "Running Bear"
    (1969)
    This single = "Since I Met You Baby"
    (1969)
    Next single = "It's Just a Matter of Time"
    (1970)

    "Since I Met You Baby" is an American rhythm and blues song written and recorded by pianist Ivory Joe Hunter. The song, which Hunter recorded in 1956, became an American standard, and saw renewed popularity in 1969 when country music artist Sonny James released his hit version.

    ong background

    Hunter had already tasted major success with popular and rhythm and blues audiences with songs such as "I Almost Lost My Mind." He moved to Atlantic Records by 1954, and around that time wrote "Since I Met You Baby."

    The song was described by Allmusic critic Steve Huey as "a masterpiece of smooth, bluesy elegance" and "decidedly removed from the tide of raucous rock & roll sweeping the country." In fact, compared to many of the other uptempo, rock-beat songs of the period, the song was "augmented by a wordless vocal choir that's strongly reminiscent of traditional pop recordings of the period," wrote Huey. A saxophone provided the harmony on the second verse. [ [http://wm08.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:fjfpxc9aldde] Huey, Steve, "Since I Met You Baby" at Allmusic]

    "Since I Met You Baby" topped the "Billboard magazine" Billboard Rhythm and Blues Records chart for three weeks in 1956, and became Hunter's only Billboard Hot 100 entry, stopping at No. 12.

    Cover versions

    onny James

    Sonny James had major success covering pop standards, both of the present time and of the past, during the 1960s. In 1969 alone, he had reached the top of the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles chart with two such covers: "Only the Lonely" and "Running Bear."

    "Since I Met You Baby" was James' third cover song released during 1969. Supposedly recorded live (the song's introduction and fade out features a cheering audience), the audience was added to James' studio recording. Any audiophile can tell the deception. James took the song to No. 1 on the Hot Country Singles chart that October. His 13th chart-topper overall, the song was his ninth consecutive country No. 1 in an eventual string of 16 straight chart-toppers in as many single releases, dating between 1967 and 1971.

    Other artists

    Mindy Carson had a chart version of the song in 1957.

    Country-Tejano artist Freddy Fender had a major country hit in the mid-1970s with a cover version of the song.

    Countless other artists have recorded "Since I Met You Baby," and they represented a wide range of genres. A partial listing includes Pat Boone, Bill Anderson, Mickey Gilley, Bruce Channel, Sam Cooke, José Feliciano, Narvel Felts, B.B. King, Wanda Jackson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Dean Martin, Lou Rawls and Johnny "Guitar" Watson. [ [http://wm08.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=17:1390177~1~T00A] Allmusic — listing for "Since I Met You Baby." ]

    References

    ee also

    *Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs: 1944-2005," 2006.

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