"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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Predicate Object
instanceOf song
alsoKnownAs Baby Won't You Please Come Home?
composer Charles Warfield
countryOfOrigin United States
era 1920s popular music
firstRecordedBy Bessie Smith
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
isPublicDomainStatusInUS likely public domain (early 1920s publication)
isStandardKey B-flat major
isWidelyRecorded yes
language English
lyricist Charles Warfield
Clarence Williams
notableRecordingBy Bessie Smith
Billie Holiday
Dinah Washington
Ella Fitzgerald
Fats Waller
Frank Sinatra
Louis Armstrong
Nat King Cole
Peggy Lee
Ray Charles
Sarah Vaughan
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"
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McKinney's Cotton Pickers notableRecording “Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home”
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Baby Won't You Please Come Home alsoKnownAs Baby Won't You Please Come Home?
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Seven Steps to Heaven hasPart Baby Won’t You Please Come Home
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