Baby Now That I've Found You

"Baby, Now That I've Found You"
Single by The Foundations
from the album From the Foundations
B-side "Come on Back to Me"
Released

Summer 1967 (UK)[1]

December 1967 (North America)
Format 7"
Genre Pop
Length 2:44
Label Pye,[2] Uni
Writer(s) Tony Macaulay, John MacLeod[2]
Producer(s) Tony Macaulay[2]
The Foundations singles chronology
"Baby, Now That I've Found You"
(1967)		 "Back on My Feet Again"
(1968)

"Baby, Now That I've Found You" is a song written by Tony Macaulay and John MacLeod.[2] Part of the song was written in the same bar of a Soho tavern where Karl Marx is supposed to have written Das Kapital.[3] The lyrics are a plea that an unnamed subject not break up with the singer.

Original recording and The Foundations

In 1967, The Foundations released it as their début single. When "Baby Now That I've Found You" was first released it went nowhere. BBC's newly founded Radio 1 were looking to avoid any records being played by the pirate radio stations and they looked back at some recent releases that the pirate stations had missed. "Baby, Now That I've Found You" was one of them. The single then took off and by November it was number one in the British charts. It met with great success, becoming a number 11 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and topping the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in November 1967.[4] The song also reached number 1 on the Canadian RPM magazine charts 10 February 1968.

Another version of the song was recorded by The Foundations in 1968 that featured Colin Young, Clem Curtis' replacement. This was on a Marble Arch album that featured newer stereo versions of their previous hits.[3]

Original lead singer of the Foundations, Clem Curtis recorded his own version of it and it was released on the Opium label OPIN 001 as a 7" single and a 12" version OPINT001 in 1987.[5]

In the late 1980s, Clem Curtis and Alan Warner teamed up to recut "Baby, Now That I've Found You" and "Build Me Up Buttercup" as well as other hits of The Foundations.[3]

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (1967-68) Peak
position
Australia Go-Set [6] 21
Canada RPM [6] 1
Belgium [6] 19
Netherlands [6] 13
New Zealand [6] 16
Norway [6] 6
UK [7] 1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [8] 11
U.S. Record World [6] 9
U.S. Cash Box Top 100 [9] 8

Year-end charts

Chart (1967) Rank
UK [10] 13
Chart (1968) Rank
Canada [11] 46
U.S. Billboard [12] 83
U.S. Cash Box [13] 47

Other versions

The song has been covered by a number of other artists. One of the earlier versions was a rocksteady version was recorded by Alton Ellis for his 1967 album Sings Rock and Soul.[14] Lana Cantrell recorded it for her 1968 Lana album.[15] The same year The Marble Arch Orchestra recorded an instrumental version of the song for their album Tomorrow's Standards.[16] In 1978 Donny and Marie Osmond recorded it for the soundtrack album for their film Goin’ Coconuts.[17] The song was also recorded by Dan Schafer, in 1977 on Tortoise International Records,[18][19] an RCA Records subsidiary.

Dan Schafer 1977 Tortoise International/RCA 45 single

In March 2012, this version was included on the compilation album, Perhaps..the Very Best of Dan Schafer.[20]

The song was a 1995 country hit for Alison Krauss from the album Now That I've Found You: A Collection. Her version appeared in the Australian comedy film, The Castle.[21] It peaked at number 49 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.[22]

In the Philippines the song was recorded by MYMP for their album MYMP Live at the Music Museum. South American artist Daniel Boaventura has also recorded a version which appears on his Songs 4 U album.[23]

Use in film

The Foundations' recording of the song appeared on the soundtrack to the film Shallow Hal. The Alison Krauss version was featured in the 1997 Australian comedy, The Castle.[24] Her rendition was also featured in the end credits of the 2001 film Delivering Milo.

Singles released

References

  1. ↑ "Rockasteria: The Foundations - Baby Now That I Found You (1967-76 uk, excellent multi blended solid soul, with tight grooves and bluesy feeling, double disc set)". Rockasteria.blogspot.com. 2012-07-20. Retrieved 2016-09-30.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p. 112. ISBN 0-85112-250-7.
  3. 1 2 3 Dopson, Roger. Baby Now That I've Found You, Sequel Records NEECD 300 (1st ed.). UK: Sequel REcords.
  4. ↑ "Official Singles Chart UK Top 100 - 22nd February 2014 | The UK Charts | Top 40". Theofficialcharts.com. Retrieved 2014-02-17.
  5. 1 2 "Clem Curtis & The Foundations - Baby Now That I've Found You (Vinyl) at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2014-02-17.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Songs from the Year 1967". Tsort.info. Retrieved 2016-09-30.
  7. ↑ "Top 100 1967". top-source.info. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  8. ↑ [Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2002]
  9. ↑ "Cash Box Top 100 2/17/68". Tropicalglen.com. 1968-02-17. Retrieved 2016-09-30.
  10. ↑ "Top 100 1967 - UK Music Charts". Uk-charts.top-source.info. Retrieved 2016-09-30.
  11. ↑ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-09-30.
  12. ↑ "Top 100 Hits of 1968/Top 100 Songs of 1968". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016-09-30.
  13. ↑ "Cash Box YE Pop Singles - 1967". Tropicalglen.com. 1967-12-23. Retrieved 2016-09-30.
  14. ↑ Archived 3 October 2009 at the Wayback Machine.
  15. ↑ Archived 8 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
  16. ↑ "A Whiter Shade of Pale - Versions - Martin's Collection - M". Awsop-versions.com. Archived from the original on 23 January 2014. Retrieved 2014-02-17.
  17. ↑ "Discography". Osmondmania.com. Retrieved 2014-02-17.
  18. 1 2 "Dan Schafer (2) - Baby, Now That I've Found You (Vinyl) at Discogs". Discogs.com. 2011-12-23. Retrieved 2014-02-17.
  19. 1 2 "Record label". Timashley.tripod.com. Retrieved 2014-02-17.
  20. ↑ "'Perhaps..the Very Best of'". Cdbaby.com. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  21. ↑ "The Castle (1997) : Soundtracks". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2014-02-17.
  22. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2013). Hot Country Songs 1944–2012. Record Research, Inc. p. 184. ISBN 978-0-89820-203-8.
  23. ↑
  24. ↑ "The Castle (1997) : Soundtracks". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2014-02-17.
  25. ↑ "Big Ben Atkins Single Discography". Geocities.jp. Retrieved 2014-02-17.
  26. ↑ "Vicki Sue Robinson : Baby, Now That I've Found You b/w Thanks a Million (7")". DiscoMusic.com. Retrieved 2014-02-17.

External links

Preceded by
"Massachusetts" by The Bee Gees		 UK number one single
8 November 1967 (two weeks) 		Succeeded by
"Let the Heartaches Begin" by Long John Baldry
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