"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.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" canonical | 1 |
| "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home" | 1 |
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| 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 ⓘ |
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
"Baby, Won't You Please Come Home"