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Single Information

  Name Baby Baby
  Cover Baby_Baby_singlejpg
  Artist Amy Grant
  From Album Heart In Motion
  Released 1991
  Format 7" Single , Cassette Single , Promotional Single , CD Single
  "Recorded" class="copylinks" target="_blank">=
  Genre CCM , Adult Contemporary , Pop
  Length 3:57
  Label A&M Records
  Writer Amy Grant, Keith Thomas
  Producer Brown Bannister
  "Certification" class="copylinks" target="_blank">=
  Chart Position <ul><li><small>#1 US Billboard Hot 100 </small></li></ul><ul><li><small>#1 US Adult Contemporary Chart <small></li></ul><ul><li><small>#2 UK Singles Chart </small></li></ul><ul><li><small>#23 US Dance Chart </small></li></ul>
  NoReviews yes
  Last Single Lead Me On <br />(1988)
  This Single Baby Baby <br />(1991)
  Next Single Every Heartbeat <br />(1991)


"Baby Baby" is a 1991 single by Christian Music and Pop Music singer Amy Grant . It was released as the first single from the '' Heart In Motion '' album.


OFFICIAL VERSIONS


Audio versions

  • Original album version (3:59), available on the album '' Heart In Motion ''

  • 7" Heart In Motion mix

  • 12" Heart In Motion mix

  • 7" No Getting Over You mix

  • 12" No Getting Over You mix

  • ITunes Originals Version (acoustic rendition recorded in studio and released on 2005 ITunes -exclusive album)

  • Time Again Live Version (live concert recording from the 2006 Time Again...Amy Grant Live album)



Video versions



SINGLES


U.S. retail CD single

# "Baby Baby" (7" Heart In Motion mix)
# "Baby Baby" (12" Heart In Motion mix)
# "Lead Me On" (LP version)


U.S. promotional CD single

# "Baby Baby" (LP version)
# "Baby Baby" (7" No Getting Over You mix)
# "Baby Baby" (7" Heart In Motion mix)
# "Baby Baby" (12" No Getting Over You mix)
# "Baby Baby" (12" Heart In Motion mix)


UK retail CD single

# "Baby Baby" (No Getting Over You mix)
# "Baby Baby" (Heart In Motion mix)
# "Lead Me On"


BACKGROUND

During the 1980s, Amy Grant was a very popular Christian singer. In 1985 , she also made a successful attempt to cross over onto mainstream charts. She achieved this with the Top 40 album '' Unguarded '' and the Top 40 single " Find A Way ." She scored several other hits in Christian and mainstream radio off the album. ''Unguarded'' became her second most successful album up to that point, and it was her fastest-selling. The next year, she scored her first #1 pop song with " The Next Time I Fall ", a duet with Chicago 's Peter Cetera . But soon after, her marriage began to strain, and she took time off from recording to work things out and start a family.

In 1988 she returned to music with the album '' Lead Me On ''. It was well-received critically, and it was a success with the Christian music market as well. The three singles released to mainstream radio from the album had each flourished on Christian radio but found only modest success on the pop charts, and the album itself only reached number seventy-one on the Billboard 200 (despite going #1 on the Christian charts). In 1989 , Grant began writing songs for a pop album. It was completed the following year, and the lead-off single from the album, "Baby Baby," was released in February 1991 .


CHART SUCCESS

"Baby Baby," which was originally written for Grant's six-month old daughter Millie, was an enormous success on secular charts, reaching the top spot on both the pop and adult contemporary charts, and was also a Top 40 dance hit. It was her first (and last) Top Ten single in Britain, where it reached number two. Like ''Unguarded'' six years before, however, the album put off some of her longtime Christian fans for "crossing over." Despite this, "Baby Baby" went on to become her most successful single and one of the most successful singles of 1991 .


TRIVIA

  • The song was covered by The Swirling Eddies in 1996 on their CD '' Sacred Cows ''.

  • The 2004 film, " Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle " features "Baby Baby" as part of its diegetic soundtrack.

  • A cover of "Baby Baby" by Alana D plays in the 2005 film " Mr. & Mrs. Smith ".

  • Grant performed the song at the Grammys and notably brought her daughter, Millie (for whom the song was written), out onto stage for the dance number.

  • Grant appeared on " Monday Night Football " in a promotional music video for "Baby Baby" that featured new lyrics custom-made for the night's game.

  • The song is referenced in Grant's Got Milk? ad.

  • Though the line "Stop for a minute" does repeatedly occur in the song's chorus, it is not the song's title (despite popular misconception).

  • Grant has said that though an artist can never be sure that a song will win over the public, she and her team had a very good feeling about the "catchy" nature of "Baby Baby" from the moment she wrote it. Yet, she admitted in ''The Billboard Book of Number One Hits'' by Fred Bronson that although "The music really bowled me over, because it was part Motown-sounding and part new," she had a tougher time writing lyrics, since her early attempts to write a romantic-sounding lyric to a song with the title "Baby Baby" came off sounding like "some overgrown football jock with no vocabulary trying desperately to be romantic."

  • One of the aspects of "Baby Baby" that her more conservative Christian fans found offensive was the song's video clip, which featured Grant singing the song to a man portraying her boyfriend (actor/model Jme Stein , who would also star in the video for her fourth single from ''Heart In Motion'', " Good For Me "). In ''The Billboard Book of Number One Adult Contemporary Hits'' by Wesley Hyatt, Grant is quoted as saying her original concept for the song's video involved many infants in one room, but that her record company nixed the idea and came up with the more romantic angle.

  • "Baby Baby" received 1991 Grammy nominations for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Record of the Year, and Song of the Year, but lost in all three categories.



CHARTS


US



UK



OTHER SONGS TITLED "BABY BABY"

"Baby Baby" is also the title of at least three other songs unrelated to Amy Grant's hit.
  • Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers had a top ten hit in the United Kingdom in 1957 with a different song titled "Baby Baby."

  • Another song titled "Baby Baby" was an international hit in 1995 for the Italian dance outfit Corona , reaching number five in the UK and number 57 in the pop chart and number five dance chart in the USA.

  • The Corona song was covered by Swedish group Sunblock in 2007.

  • Baby-Baby-Baby was also a song by TLC in 1992



  Before " You're In Love " by Wilson Phillips
  Title Billboard Hot 100 Number One Single
  Years April 27 1991 - May 4 1991
  After " Joyride " by Roxette