Which group had a 1968 UK hit with Baby Come Back?
"Edward Kassner heard them and agreed to sign them. The Equals released their first single ""I Won’t Be There"" in 1966, followed by ""Hold Me Closer"", with ""Baby, Come Back"" as the B-side. It did not do well in the United Kingdom, but after DJs in Europe began playing ""Baby, Come Back"" it went to the number one position in Germany and the Netherlands. The year 1968 saw the release of ""I Get So Excited"", which reached the Top 50 of the UK Singles Chart. The subsequent re-issue of ""Baby, Come Back"" in early 1968 reached the top position in"
"Baby Come Back (Player song) ""Baby Come Back"" is a song by the American rock band Player. It was released in late 1977 as the lead single from their 1977 self-titled debut album. The song was their biggest hit single, hitting number one on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and number ten on the R&B charts in 1978. It was the breakthrough single for the band, gaining them mainstream success, and hit number one. It was written and performed by Peter Beckett and J.C. Crowley, the founders of Player. Two versions of the song exist. The album version ends with"
"Get Back ""Get Back"" is a song recorded by the Beatles and written by Paul McCartney (though credited to Lennon-McCartney), originally released as a single on 11 April 1969 and credited to ""The Beatles with Billy Preston."" A different mix of the song later became the closing track of ""Let It Be"" (1970), which was the Beatles' last album released just after the group split. The single version was later issued on the compilation albums ""1967–1970"", ""20 Greatest Hits"", ""Past Masters"", and ""1"". The single reached number one in the United Kingdom, the United States, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, the"
"Britain alone. The band re-recorded ""Ciao Baby"" in 1969. Their several radio hits in England made little impact on the charts, but ""You've Got to Be Loved"", which was released on October 13, 1967, reached number 58 on the U.S. ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in 1968, followed by ""Run to Me"" making it to number 121 on the ""Billboard"" Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles charts, number 41 on ""Cashbox"", and number 33 on ""Record World"". The band, however, was unable to promote the single in the US, so no other national hits followed. Their lineup changed considerably in 1967 and again"
"Peter Beckett Peter Beckett (born 10 August 1948) is an English musician and songwriter who has written songs for many prominent recording artists, his own bands and solo work, and for several films. He is likely best known as the lead singer and guitarist for 1970s soft rock group Player, which scored a U.S. number one hit in 1977 with ""Baby Come Back"". Beckett was born in the Aigburth district of Liverpool, England. He was influenced by seeing the Beatles perform at the famous Cavern Club. At 16, he recorded his first record, ""All Night Stand"", with a band called"
"""Rump Shaker"", and ""Shake Your Groove Thing"". Baby Got Back ""Baby Got Back"" is a 1992 hip hop song written and recorded by American rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot, which appeared on his album ""Mack Daddy"". The song samples the 1986 Detroit techno single ""Technicolor"" by Channel One. At the time of its original release, the song caused controversy with its outspoken and blatantly sexual lyrics about women, as well as specific references to the female buttocks which some people found objectionable. The song's music video was briefly banned by MTV. It was the second best-selling song in the US in 1992,"
"Player (band) Player is an American rock band that made their mark during the late 1970s. The group scored several US Hot 100 hits, three of which went into the Top 40; two of those single releases went Top 10, including the No. 1 hit ""Baby Come Back"", written by group members Peter Beckett and J.C. Crowley. Player first came together in Los Angeles, California. The original members included Peter Beckett (vocals, guitar), John Charles ""J.C."" Crowley (vocals, keyboards, guitar), Ronn Moss (vocals, bass), and John Friesen (drums). Beckett, a transplanted Englishman, had been in a group called Skyband with"
"Jamaican performers to reach number one in Britain were Desmond Dekker and the Aces with ""Israelites"" in 1969. The second act was Althea & Donna with ""Up Town, Top Ranking"" in 1977. Bob Marley came from Jamaica to London and recorded ""Catch a Fire"" in 1972, returning to record ""Exodus"" and ""Kaya"" in 1977. Eddy Grant was born in Guyana in 1948 and grew up in Brixton. He was part of The Equals, the first multi-racial group to reach number 1 in the UK, with ""Baby come Back"" in 1968. He took Caribbean music further in the direction of rock"
"with The Yacht Rock Revue. Beckett is currently working on a country CD, Peter Beckett - Limey Cowboy and continues to tour with his band Player. Peter Beckett Peter Beckett (born 10 August 1948) is an English musician and songwriter who has written songs for many prominent recording artists, his own bands and solo work, and for several films. He is likely best known as the lead singer and guitarist for 1970s soft rock group Player, which scored a U.S. number one hit in 1977 with ""Baby Come Back"". Beckett was born in the Aigburth district of Liverpool, England. He"
"Back"" was a hit in Europe before becoming a British number one in 1968. In keeping with the popularity of blues-based rock and the onset of psychedelic music in the mid-1960s, some of the harder-driving and more obscure bands associated with the mod scene in the UK are sometimes retroactively referred to as Freakbeat, which is sometimes viewed as a more stylish British parallel to garage rock.<ref name=""Erewine (Freakbeat/Garage)""></ref> Several bands often mentioned as Freakbeat are the Creation, the Action, the Move, the Smoke, the Sorrows, and Wimple Winch. The beat boom swept through continental Europe, resulting in the emergence"
"Baby Got Back ""Baby Got Back"" is a 1992 hip hop song written and recorded by American rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot, which appeared on his album ""Mack Daddy"". The song samples the 1986 Detroit techno single ""Technicolor"" by Channel One. At the time of its original release, the song caused controversy with its outspoken and blatantly sexual lyrics about women, as well as specific references to the female buttocks which some people found objectionable. The song's music video was briefly banned by MTV. It was the second best-selling song in the US in 1992, behind Boyz II Men's ""End of the"
"Back to Back (Status Quo album) Back to Back is the sixteenth studio album by English rock band Status Quo and released in November 1983. For the first time in the group's history, it featured four singles, ""Ol' Rag Blues"" (highest position No. 9), ""A Mess of Blues"", originally a hit for Elvis Presley (No. 15), ""Marguerita Time"" (No. 3), and ""Going Down Town Tonight"" (which reached No. 20 in a different, re-recorded version to the album version.) The album entered the UK chart at its highest position of No. 9. It was the last recorded before the group temporarily"
"the UK, giving President Records their only number one hit. In June 1969, the group received a gold disc for a combined one million sales of the disc. A string of single releases followed, several of which charted in the UK, including two further top ten hits, ""Viva Bobby Joe"" (1969) and ""Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys"" (1970). Their songs were mainly written by Eddy Grant. Though the majority were on traditional teenage pop themes, some, such as ""Stand Up and Be Counted"", ""Police on My Back"", and the funky ""Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys"", touched on social and political"
"in the UK. The Irish boy band Boyzone took the song to #2 in the UK in 1994. By 1976, though, the group's record sales were softening; Osmondmania had long faded and been replaced by ""Rollermania"", as the Bay City Rollers became the hot pop band of choice in the mid-1970s. Their 1975 album ""The Proud One"" sold poorly (despite the title track providing a chart-topping easy listening hit and the group's last U.S. top-40 hit to date), and MGM Records was sold to PolyGram. Their first album on the subsidiary label Polydor was the album ""Brainstorm""; that album sold"
"The Equals The Equals are a British pop, R&B and rock group formed in North London, England in 1965. They are best remembered for their million-selling chart-topper, ""Baby, Come Back"", though they had several other chart hits in the UK and Europe. Eddy Grant founded the group with Pat Lloyd, John Hall, and brothers Derv and Lincoln Gordon, and they were noted as being ""the first major interracial rock group in the UK"" and ""one of the few racially mixed bands of the era"". The group's members met on a Hornsey Rise council estate, where Grant, Lloyd and Hall had"
"Come Back (The J. Geils Band song) ""Come Back"" is a song by the J. Geils Band, appearing on their 1980 album ""Love Stinks"". ""Come Back"" was the first single from the album, and reached the US Top 40, peaking at No. 32 and remaining in the Top 40 for five weeks. It peaked at No. 19 for two weeks in Canada. It also made Billboard's Club Play Singles chart, peaking at No. 69. The song remains in the rotation of classic rock radio stations. Seth Justman provides extensive keyboards, which Associated Press critic James Simon feels gives the song"
"well as 16 bonus tracks, including many B-sides and singles from The Mark V. Peppermint Trolley Company The Peppermint Trolley Company was an American sunshine pop band known for their 1968 single ""Baby You Come Rollin' 'Cross My Mind"" as well as their performances on ""Mannix"", ""The Beverly Hillbillies"" and their arrangement and performance of ""The Brady Bunch"" original theme song. Peppermint Trolley Company released one album and five singles on the Acta label, a subsidiary of Dot Records. The original line-up included Jimmy Faragher (vocals, bass, guitar), Danny Faragher (vocals, keyboards), Casey Cunningham (drums) and Patrick McClure (guitar, vocals)."
"first and only UK number one as a solo artist. He later appeared on five charity singles that reached number one: Band Aid (1984), Ferry Aid (1987), Ferry Cross the Mersey (1989), Band Aid 20 (2004) and The Justice Collective (2012). As the 1969 single Get Back was formally credited to 'The Beatles with Billy Preston' this makes McCartney the only person to have had a number one single as a solo artist and as a member of a duo, a trio, a quartet and a quintet. At Chobham Common, Surrey, a video was shot for ""Pipes of Peace"", depicting"
"Ten Years After Ten Years After are a British blues rock band, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, Ten Years After scored eight Top 40 albums on the UK Albums Chart. In addition they had twelve albums enter the US ""Billboard"" 200, and are best known for tracks such as ""I'm Going Home"", ""Hear Me Calling"", ""I'd Love to Change the World"" and ""Love Like a Man"". Their musical style consisted of blues rock and hard rock. The band's core formed in late 1960 as Ivan Jay and the Jaycats. After several years"
"but still close to the originals. Their debut album, ""Blues Helping"", included such songs as ""Summertime"" and ""Wang Dang Doodle"". They are best known for their 1968 novelty hit in the UK Singles Chart, a high speed cover version of the classical piece ""Sabre Dance"" by Aram Khachaturian, released on the Parlophone label (R 5744), which reached No. 5 in the UK Singles Chart in December 1968. The recording was inspired by Keith Emerson's classical rearrangements. ""Sabre Dance"" became a hit after receiving air play by British DJ John Peel, who was so impressed that he played it twice in"
"Mustang Records, represented a first success for songwriter and arranger Barry White. The label’s first number 1 came in 1968, as British mixed-race band the Equals hit with ""Baby, Come Back"", written by the teenage leader of the band, Eddy Grant. The song was originally a single B-side to ""Hold Me Closer""; a radio DJ in Germany flipped the single and it took off. The Equals scored two more top ten hits on President with ""Viva Bobby Joe"" and ""Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys"". President was also successful with a series of top 30 hits by Welsh vocalist Dorothy Squires,"
"covered by the Detroit Cobras on their 2007 album, ""Tied & True"". Pato Banton scored a UK number one with his cover of ""Baby Come Back"". Chelsea Handler described a meeting with Pat Lloyd in chapter 6 of her book, ""Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea"". The Equals The Equals are a British pop, R&B and rock group formed in North London, England in 1965. They are best remembered for their million-selling chart-topper, ""Baby, Come Back"", though they had several other chart hits in the UK and Europe. Eddy Grant founded the group with Pat Lloyd, John Hall, and"
"It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back) ""It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back)"" is a song written and recorded by the British pop music duo Eurythmics. It was released as the fourth and final single from their 1985 album ""Be Yourself Tonight"". The song was produced by Dave Stewart, and the song's brass arrangement was devised by Michael Kamen. The single became Eurythmics' tenth Top 20 hit in the UK where it peaked at number 12, but was less successful in the United States, stalling at number 78 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. As songwriters, Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart received the 1986"
"and 1969, the group spent more weeks in the UK Singles Chart than the Beatles and made the odd tour 'down under' to Australia and New Zealand, where they had also experienced some marked chart success during this period. They also scored a Number One hit in the UK Singles Chart in 1968 with ""The Legend of Xanadu"". The combined sales figures were in excess of one million copies. Their other top 10 UK hits included ""Hideaway"", ""Hold Tight!"", ""Bend It!"", ""Save Me!"", ""Touch Me, Touch Me"", ""Okay!"", ""Zabadak!"" and ""Last Night in Soho"". ""Bend It!"" was a big hit"
"the massive 1969 ""Get Back"" sessions which has never been released. However ex-Beatles John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Pete Best and Lennon's former bandmembers the Quarrymen as well as Tony Sheridan (who was asked to join the Beatles) all recorded versions of it. Many other artists including Connie Francis (1959, Rock 'n' Roll Million Sellers), Annette Peacock, Barbara Lynn (1963, Jamie #1244 45 RPM, #93 on the Hot 100), Bill Black's Combo, Billy Swan, Devo, Cheap Trick, Daffy Duck, Merle Haggard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Neil Diamond, and Jackie Wilson have recorded the song. Presley was said to be so impressed with"
"Voodoo Child (Slight Return) ""Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"" is a song recorded by the Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1968 that appears as the final track on the ""Electric Ladyland"" album released that year. It contains improvised guitar and a vocal from Jimi Hendrix, backed by Noel Redding on bass and Mitch Mitchell on drums. The song is one of Hendrix's best known; it was a feature of his concert performances throughout his career, and several live renditions were recorded and released on later albums. After his death in 1970, Track Records released the song as a single in the United"
"Booker T. & the MG's alone. Back to Back (The Mar-Keys and Booker T. & the M.G.'s album) Back to Back is a live album by the Mar-Keys and Booker T & the M.G.'s, released on Stax Records in 1967. It features both groups playing live on the Stax/Volt package tour of Europe. The album peaked at number 98 on the ""Billboard"" 200 album chart in the United States. ""Philly Dog"", ""Grab This Thing"", and ""Last Night"" are performed by the Mar-Keys (i.e., Booker T. & the M.G.'s plus the horn section of Wayne Jackson, Joe Arnold and Andrew Love)."
"Baby Jump ""Baby Jump"" is a popular song, released as a single in 1971 by Mungo Jerry. Written by the group's lead vocalist and guitarist Ray Dorset and produced by Barry Murray, it was the band's second No. 1 single, reaching the top of the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in March 1971. The song originally entered at No. 32 and dropped out of the chart due to lack of sales data because of a national postal strike, but re-entered two weeks later at No. 14. The song also reached No. 5 in the Irish Singles Chart. Like the"
"is credited to Page, Plant, and Berns, who had written songs with the same title for Hoagy Lands and Solomon Burke in 1964 and 1965. On this track, Jimmy Page played guitar through a Leslie speaker and John Paul Jones played piano and a Hammond organ. Baby Come On Home ""Baby Come On Home"" is a soul song by English rock band Led Zeppelin. It was recorded during sessions for the band's debut album but remained unreleased until 1993, when it was included on the compilation ""Boxed Set 2"". The song was also included as a bonus track on the"
"James (band) James is an English rock band from Manchester, which was formed in 1982 and enjoyed popularity throughout the 1990s. The band's best-known singles include ""Come Home"", ""Sit Down"", ""She's a Star"" and ""Laid"", which also became a hit on American college radio. Following the departure of lead singer Tim Booth in 2001, the band became inactive, but reunited in January 2007 and has gone on to produce a further six albums. James's hit single ""Come Home"" was voted the greatest ever Manchester anthem in a radio poll. Live performance has continually remained a central part of the band's"
"number 6), ""The Night Has A Thousand Eyes"" (1963, US number 3; UK number 3) and ""Come Back When You Grow Up"" (1967, US number 3). On the recording of ""Come Back When You Grow Up"" Bobby Vee and The Strangers are credited. However, that was merely the record label giving a name to the studio musicians working that day. Bobby's original band, The Shadows, backed him on the road, but changed their name to The Strangers upon learning of the UK band The Shadows who backed Cliff Richard. They had not backed him since 1963. He also recorded, in"
"on August 28, 1968, and thus becoming the band's second number one hit in the United Kingdom after ""Good Vibrations"" two years earlier. Love remembered thinking that the song's success in Britain ""was unbelievable. It showed how many fans we had there and how attractive the whole California lifestyle is."" When ""Friends"" was issued in Japan, ""Do It Again"" was included in its track list. In Britain's ""Disc & Music Echo"", Penny Valentine praised the single: ""Do It Again"" remained at the top position for only one week, after which it was supplanted by the Bee Gees' ""I've Gotta Get"
"Back Here ""Back Here"" is the debut single by British pop rock band BBMak. It was written by the three members of the group (Mark Barry, Christian Burns and Stephen McNally) along with songwriter Phil Thornalley. It appears on BBMak's debut studio album ""Sooner or Later"". ""Back Here"" was released in the United Kingdom on 16 August 1999, where it reached the top 40 on the UK Singles Chart in August, peaking at number 37. It proved to be more successful in North America, rising to number 13 on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in July 2000 and remaining in"