Baby, We're Really in Love
1951 Hank Williams song
"Baby, We're Really in Love" | ||||
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Single by Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys | ||||
B-side | "I'd Still Want You" | |||
Published | October 17, 1951 (1951-10-17) Acuff-Rose Publications[1] | |||
Released | November 1951 (1951-11) | |||
Recorded | July 25, 1951[2] | |||
Studio | Castle Studio, Nashville | |||
Genre | Country & Western, Honky-tonk, Country blues | |||
Length | 2:32 | |||
Label | MGM | |||
Songwriter(s) | Hank Williams | |||
Producer(s) | Fred Rose | |||
Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys singles chronology | ||||
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"Baby, We're Really in Love" is a song written and recorded by Hank Williams and released on MGM Records. It peaked at number four on the Billboard country singles chart. It was recorded at Castle Studio in Nashville on July 25, 1951 with Fred Rose producing and backing from Don Helms (steel guitar), Jerry Rivers (fiddle), Sammy Pruett (lead guitar), Howard Watts (bass) and probably Jack Shook (rhythm guitar).[3] It was his fourteenth Top 5 hit.
Cover versions
- Don Gibson recorded the song for RCA Records in 1962.
- Hank Williams, Jr. recorded it as an overdubbed duet for his father on MGM in 1965.
- Leona Williams cut the song for Hickory Records.
- The Reckless Drifters (John Easdale and Christa Collins) re-recorded this song in 2018. Sirius XM,"The Rodney Bingenheimer Show".
References
- ^ "U.S. Copyright Office Virtual Card Catalog 1946-1954". vcc.copyright.gov. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
- ^ "Hank Williams Sessions". jazzdiscography.com. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
- ^ Escott, Colin (2004). Hank Williams: The Biography. Back Bay. p. 345. ISBN 0-316-73497-7.
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