 There Goes My Baby is a song written by the songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller for The Drifters, a doo wop group. They used a different song sructure than they had in their previous successees with The Coasters. The combination of new style and new group fit and the song made the pop Top Ten Charts in 1959 when it was released by Atlantic Records.[1] Mike Stoller, Elvis Presley & Jerry Leiber Jerry Leiber (born April 25, 1933) and Mike Stoller (born March 13, 1933) are among the most influential songwriters and music producers in post-World War II popular music. ...
The Drifters were a long-lived American doo wop/R&B band, originally formed by Clyde McPhatter (of Billy Ward & the Dominoes) in 1953. ...
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The Coasters were an American doo wop and early rock and roll group, evolving from The Robins, a Los Angeles based doo wop group. ...
Popular music is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and mostly distributed commercially. ...
1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Atlantic Records (Atlantic Recording Corporation) is an American record label that operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. ...
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The lyrics are loosely structured, almost free form at a time when rhyming lines were mandatory. The accompaniment features a violin section playing saxophone-like riffs in rock and roll style. The lead voice is in high gospel-style.[1][2] Lyric can have a number of meanings. ...
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Saxophones of different sizes play in different registers. ...
Riff is also an alternate spelling of Rif, a region of Morocco. ...
Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ...
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- (There goes my baby) Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh
- (There goes my baby) Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
- (There goes my baby) Whoa-oh-oh-oh
- (There she goes) Yeah! (There she goes)
Legacy This recording introduced the idea of using strings and elaborate production values on an R&B recording to enhance the emotional power of black music. This pointed the way to the coming era of soul music as the popularity of the doo wop vocal groups peaked and faded. Phil Spector studied this production model under Leiber and Stoller, working on The Drifters records.[3] A string instrument (or stringed instrument) is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. ...
Rhythm and blues (or R & B) is a musical marketing term introduced in the United States in the late 1940s by Billboard magazine. ...
Harvey Phillip Spector (born December 26, 1940) is an American record producer of the 1960s and 1970s. ...
Notes - ^ a b Gillett, Charlie (1996). The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll, (2nd Ed.), New York, N.Y.: Da Capo Press, p. 192-194. ISBN 0-306-80683-5.
- ^ The Drifters Lyrics - There Goes My Baby Lyrics. Retrieved on 2006-11-27.
- ^ Holly George-Warren &, Anthony Decurtis (Eds.) (1976). The RollingStone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll, 3rd Edition, New York: Random House, p. 148-149. ISBN 0-679-73728-6.
2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
November 27 is the 331st day (332nd on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
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