Baby Won't You Please Come Home
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"Baby Won't You Please Come Home" is a blues
song written by Charles Warfield and Clarence Williams in 1919. The song's authorship is disputed; Warfield claims that he was the sole composer of the song.
The song has been covered by a large number of musicians and has become a jazz standard
. The first hit version was Bessie Smith
's 1923 recording, which stayed on four weeks on the charts peaking at #6.
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
song written by Charles Warfield and Clarence Williams in 1919. The song's authorship is disputed; Warfield claims that he was the sole composer of the song.
The song has been covered by a large number of musicians and has become a jazz standard
Jazz standard
Jazz standards are musical compositions which are an important part of the musical repertoire of jazz musicians, in that they are widely known, performed, and recorded by jazz musicians, and widely known by listeners. There is no definitive list of jazz standards, and the list of songs deemed to be...
. The first hit version was Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith was an American blues singer.Sometimes referred to as The Empress of the Blues, Smith was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s...
's 1923 recording, which stayed on four weeks on the charts peaking at #6.
Renditions
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(1923) - Clarence Williams' Blue Five (1927)
- George ThomasGeorge W. ThomasGeorge Washington Thomas Jr. was a United States blues and jazz pianist and songwriter....
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(1930) - The Mills Brothers (1932)
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