Peter and Gordon Version
Peter and Gordon had the UK hit version of "Baby I'm Yours" with an October 15, 1965 single release reaching #19. (Although Peter and Gordon's "Baby I'm Yours" was issued on Columbia which was the duo's UK label of release, Columbia in the UK was a distinct label form the US-based Columbia Records for whose publishing arm: April-Blackwood Music, composer Van McCoy had written the song.) Produced by Norman Newell in an Abbey Road Studio session which featured Big Jim Sullivan on guitar, "Baby I'm Yours" is unique as the one Peter and Gordon single arranged by Tony Osborne who took over from the duo's original regular collaborator Geoff Love: subsequent to "Baby I'm Yours" Peter and Gordon regularly collaborated with arranger/conductor Bob Leaper.
In deference to the US success of the Barbara Lewis version, Capitol Records - Peter and Gordon's US label of release - did not issue the duo's "Baby I'm Yours" single, the Peter and Gordon US single release concurrent with their UK "Baby I'm Yours" single release being "Don't Pity Me" a composition by the duo which peaked at #83. "Baby I'm Yours" was thus the first Peter and Gordon UK single not be released concurrently in the US, a situation which would occur one more time, specifically with Peter and Gordon's April 1968 UK single release "I Feel Like Going Out".
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