"Baby Won't You Please Come Home"

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"Baby Won't You Please Come Home" is a classic early 20th-century blues and jazz standard, widely recorded and performed since its publication in the 1920s.

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instanceOf song
alsoKnownAs Baby Won't You Please Come Home? NERFINISHED
composer Charles Warfield NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
era 1920s popular music
firstRecordedBy Bessie Smith NERFINISHED
genre blues
jazz
hasBecome jazz standard
hasBeenRecordedSince 1920s
hasCallAndResponseElements yes
hasInfluenceOn later jazz vocal repertoire
hasLyricalTheme lost love
plea for a lover to return
hasMusicalForm 32-bar song form
isFrequentlyIncludedIn blues repertoire
traditional jazz setlists
isPartOf Great American Songbook NERFINISHED
isPublicDomainStatusInUS likely public domain (early 1920s publication)
isStandardKey B-flat major
isWidelyRecorded yes
language English
lyricist Charles Warfield NERFINISHED
Clarence Williams NERFINISHED
notableRecordingBy Bessie Smith NERFINISHED
Billie Holiday NERFINISHED
Dinah Washington NERFINISHED
Ella Fitzgerald NERFINISHED
Fats Waller NERFINISHED
Frank Sinatra NERFINISHED
Louis Armstrong NERFINISHED
Nat King Cole NERFINISHED
Peggy Lee NERFINISHED
Ray Charles NERFINISHED
Sarah Vaughan NERFINISHED
performancePractice frequently interpreted as a torch song
often performed with small jazz combo
publicationDate 1923
subjectMatter a person begging their partner to return home
typicalTempo slow to medium
vocalStyle blues-influenced

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Clarence Williams notableWork "Baby Won't You Please Come Home"
Teresa Brewer notableWork "Baby Won't You Please Come Home"
this entity surface form: "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home"