Other Versions
Prior to Manfred Mann's recording, Dusty Springfield recorded "Oh No Not My Baby" in a 22 January 1965 session at the Philips Studio in Marble Arch which featured the Breakaways vocal group and Big Jim Sullivan on guitar. This track was unreleased, with Springfield recording a subsequent version of "Oh No Not My Baby" for inclusion on her Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty album on 2 July 1965 in a session at the Philips Studio in Marble Arch conducted by Ivor Raymonde and featuring Madeline Bell and Doris Troy on background vocals. The latter track was first issued in the U.S. on the You Don't Have To Say You Love Me album released July 1966. As is the norm for Springfield's early Philips sessions, the production credit is to label owner Johnny Franz; Springfield later stated the tracks she recorded with Franz credited as producer were in fact produced by Springfield herself.
Aretha Franklin recorded "Oh No Not My Baby" for her 1970 Spirit in the Dark album; this version was issued as the follow-up single to "Don't Play That Song" in the UK - where the parent album was released as Don't Play That Song - but failed to chart.
Carole King herself recorded "Oh No Not My Baby" for her 1980 album Pearls: Songs of Goffin and King from which it was issued as the second single - after "One Fine Day" - without charting. King subsequently recorded "Oh No Not My Baby" for her 2001 Love Makes the World album.
"Oh No Not My Baby" has also been recorded by Fontella Bass, Debby Boone, Julie Budd, Odyssey and The 1970s made for TV band The Partridge Family.
The introductory riff to Maxine Brown's version was utilised by Gabriella Cilmi on her single "Sanctuary".
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