Back in Baby's Arms is the thirteenth studio album by American country

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 artist, Connie Smith

Connie Smith

Connie Smith is an American country music artist. She began her career in 1963 after winning a local talent contest near Columbus, Ohio, which attracted the attention of country songwriter Bill Anderson...

. The album was released in October 1969 and was produced by Bob Ferguson

Bob Ferguson (music)

Robert Bruce "Bob" Ferguson Sr was an American songwriter, record producer who was instrumental in establishing Nashville, Tennessee as a center of country music; movie producer, and Choctaw Indian historian. Ferguson wrote the bestselling songs "On the Wings of a Dove" and "The Carroll County...

. It was Smith's third and final album released in 1969.

Background and release

Back in Baby's Arms consisted of twelve tracks, all of which were cover versions of songs previously recorded as country music hits. The album included cover versions of Patsy Cline

Patsy Cline

Patsy Cline , born Virginia Patterson Hensley in Gore, Virginia, was an American country music singer who enjoyed pop music crossover success during the era of the Nashville sound in the early 1960s...

's "Back in Baby's Arms", Brenda Lee

Brenda Lee

Brenda Mae Tarpley , known as Brenda Lee, is an American performer who sang rockabilly, pop and country music, and had 37 US chart hits during the 1960s, a number surpassed only by Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Ray Charles and Connie Francis...

's "Fool #1", and Connie Francis

Connie Francis

Connie Francis is an American pop singer of Italian heritage and the top-charting female vocalist of the 1950s and 1960s. Although her chart success waned in the second half of the 1960s, Francis remained a top concert draw...

's "The Wedding Cake". The album also included a cover version of the religious standard "How Great Thou Art". During this period of time, Smith was beginning to record more Gospel music material. Allmusic reviewer Dan Cooper stated about Smith's version of the song, "If any Thomas ever doubted Smith's religious convictions (which are as much a part of her story as her voice is) one listen to this LP's "How Great Thou Art" should take care of that mistrust." The album was reviewed by the website and received four and a half out of five stars. No singles were released from Back in Baby's Arms, however the album itself reached a peak position on the American albums charts. Upon its release in 1969, Back in Baby's Arms reached a peak of #12 on the Billboard Magazine Top Country Albums chart. In 1980 "Back in Baby's Arms" was part of the soundtrack for the Loretta Lynn biography Coal Miner's Daughter

Coal Miner's Daughter

Coal Miner's Daughter is a 1980 American biographical film which tells the story of country music icon Loretta Lynn. It stars Sissy Spacek in her Academy Award for Best Actress winning role, Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D'Angelo and Levon Helm, and was directed by Michael Apted.-Background:The film was...

 and was sung by Beverly D'Angelo

Beverly D'Angelo

Beverly Heather D'Angelo is an American actress and singer.-Early life:D'Angelo was born in Columbus, Ohio, the daughter of Priscilla , a violinist, and Gene D'Angelo, a bass player and television station manager. She is of part Italian ancestry...

 who was portraying Patsy Cline and Sissy Spacek

Sissy Spacek

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 who was portraying Loretta Lynn.

Side one

1. "Back in Baby's Arms" – (Bob Montgomery
   Bob Montgomery (musician)
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   )
2. "Long Black Limousine" – (Bobby George, Vern Stovall)
3. "I Can't Get Used to Being Lonely" – (Melba Montgomery
   Melba Montgomery
   Melba Montgomery is an American country music singer. She is best known for duet hit recordings in the 1960s with country music singer George Jones....
   
   )
4. "Fool #1" – (Kathryn R. Fulton)
5. "Gone Too Far" – (Jack Ripley)
6. "The Wedding Cake" – (Margaret Lewis
   Margaret Lewis (music)
   Margaret Lewis Warwick, known for much of her career as Margaret Lewis is a country music/rockabilly singer/songwriter and music entrepreneur....
   
   , Mira Smith)

Side two

1. "Too Many Rivers" – (Harlan Howard
   Harlan Howard
   Harlan Perry Howard was a prolific American songwriter, principally in country music. In a career spanning six decades, Howard wrote a large number of popular and enduring songs, recorded by a variety of different artists...
   
   )
2. "How Great Thou Art
   How Great Thou Art
   How Great Thou Art may refer to:*"How Great Thou Art" by Carl Boberg*How Great Thou Art *How Great Thou Art *How Great Thou Art, an album by The Statler Brothers...
   
   " – (Stuart K. Hine)
3. "Call" – (Cy Coben)
4. "Now" – (Paul Parnes, Herb Strizik)
5. "What Would I Do Without You" – (Coben)

Sales chart positions

Album

Chart (1969)	Peak position
U.S. Top Country Albums	12