Other Versions
"Baby I'm Yours" has never had a major pop remake in the US but has reached the C&W Top 40 three times via remakes by Jody Miller (#5 in 1971), Debby Boone (#33 in 1978) and Tanya Tucker (#22 in 1983), with Miller and Boone's remakes reaching the lower Pop charts at respectively #91 and #74.1
Cass Elliot's remake of "Baby I'm Yours" was released in February 1972 at the same time as its parent album Cass Elliot produced by Lewis Merenstein and arranged/conducted by Benny Golson. The album was Elliot's debut for RCA Victor who insisted on "Baby I'm Yours" release as the lead single over Elliott and Merenstein's choice: "That Song" a new song by Bill Dean ("That Song" was a single release in April 1972; neither track charted).2
In the UK, Linda Lewis hit #33 with a disco remake of "Baby I'm Yours" in 1976.
In 2006 "Baby I'm Yours" served as the B-side of Arctic Monkeys' UK hit "Leave Before the Lights Come On" (#4); that version featured the 747's with shared vocals by Arctic Monkeys' lead singer Alex Turner and the 747s' lead singer Oisin Leech.
"Baby I'm Yours" has also been recorded by Cilla Black on her 2nd album Cilla Sings a Rainbow (1966) and also by Petula Clark, Jack Jones, Diane Marino, Maureen McGovern (as the title track of her 1992 covers album), the Paramounts, Dianne Steinberg, Bobby Vee (in medley with "Make It Easy on Yourself"), Bobby Vinton. In 1996, Phoebe Snow and Avenue Blue (featuring Jeff Golub) released their version on their album Naked City.
- 1Debby Boone's version of "Baby I'm Yours" was a double-sided Pop chart entrant in tandem with "God Knows".
- 2 Fiegel, Eddi. Dream a Little Dream of Me: the Life of "Mama" Cass Elliot (London: Sidgwick & Jackson. 2005. ISBN 0-283-07331-4) p. 336.
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