Here Comes My Baby (Dottie West song)

"Here Comes My Baby" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Dottie West. It was released in June 1964 as the first single and title track from the album Here Comes My Baby. West the wrote the song with her then-husband Bill.

History

"Here Comes My Baby" was the first song to be written and made famous by Dottie West. In 1964, Dottie West was trying to make it big in Nashville. She released a single the previous year called "Let Me Off At the Corner", which made the Top 40. She also recorded another with Jim Reeves called "Love Is No Excuse", which became a hit after his death in 1964. She had just received a recording contract with RCA Records and decided that she would write her own song and see how it does as a single. The song was written in one day, according to West, who wrote along with her husband Bill West, and she then recorded it in Nashville.

Nobody expected the success the song would bring in 1964. The song made it to number 10 on the Billboard country charts^[1] that year, making the song a national hit for West. That year, west won a BMI award for writing "Here Comes My Baby". The next year, West made history when the song won her a Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. West not only became the first person to win this type of Grammy award, but also became the first female Country Music singer to ever win a Grammy award. (The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences introduced the country categories to the Grammy Awards that year.)

Because of the success of the song, West got a spot on the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, and the song became one of West's signature songs of her career. It has been made a standard to record in Country Music.

Cover versions

Since its original release, "Here Comes My Baby" has been recorded by over 100 artists, including Lynn Anderson from the album "Songs That Made Country Girls Famous" (1970), Dean Martin and Faron Young.

Charts

Chart (1964)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs	10

Anita Perras version

"Here Comes My Baby"

Single by Anita Perras

from the album Touch My Heart

Released

1990

Genre

Country

Length

2:59

Label

Savannah

Producer(s)

Mike Francis

Anita Perras singles chronology

"Touch My Heart"
(1989)

"Here Comes My Baby"
(1990)

"After All"
(1990)

Canadian country music artist Anita Perras covered the song on her 1989 album Touch My Heart. Her version was released as a single in 1990 and peaked at number 9 on the RPM Country Tracks chart.

Chart performance

Chart (1990)	Peak position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)^[2]	9

Year-end charts

Chart (1990)	Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)^[3]	95

References

↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 9144-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 378.
↑ "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 1254." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. June 16, 1990. Retrieved September 8, 2013.
↑ "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1990". RPM. December 22, 1990. Retrieved September 8, 2013.

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Dottie West

Studio albums	Here Comes My Baby The Country Girl Singing Sensation Dottie West Sings Suffer Time With All My Heart and Soul Dottie West Sings Sacred Ballads I'll Help You Forget Her What I'm Cut Out to Be The Sound of Country Music Country Girl Feminine Fancy Dottie Sings Eddy Makin' Memories Country and West Forever Yours Careless Hands Have You Heard ... Dottie West I'm Only a Woman If It's All Right With You/Just What I've Been Looking For Country Sunshine House of Love Carolina Cousins When It's Just You and Me Dottie Special Delivery Wild West High Times Full Circle New Horizons Just Dottie

Collaboration albums	Dottie and Don (with Don Gibson) Country Boy and Country Girl (with Jimmy Dean) Every Time Two Fools Collide (with Kenny Rogers) Classics (with Kenny Rogers)

Compilation albums	The Best of Dottie West I'd Be a Legend in My Time Would You Hold it Against Me Loving You Once You Were Mine Dottie West The Best of Dottie West Dottie West's Greatest Hits Are You Happy Baby: The Collection The Essential Dottie West Dottie West: RCA Country Legends

Notable singles	"My Big John" "Here Comes My Baby" "Would You Hold It Against Me" "What's Come Over My Baby" "Paper Mansions" "Like a Fool" "Country Girl" "Reno" "Careless Hands" "Country Sunshine" "Last Time I Saw Him" "When It's Just You and Me" "Tonight You Belong to Me" "Come See Me and Come Lonely" "You Pick Me Up (And Put Me Down)" "A Lesson in Leavin'" "Leavin's for Unbelievers" "Are You Happy Baby?" "What Are We Doin' in Love" (with Kenny Rogers) "(I'm Gonna) Put You Back on the Rack" "It's High Time"

Collaboration singles	"Love Is No Excuse" (with Jim Reeves) "Rings of Gold" (with Don Gibson) "Till I Can't Take It Anymore" (with Don Gibson) "Every Time Two Fools Collide" (with Kenny Rogers) "Anyone Who Isn't Me Tonight" (with Kenny Rogers) "All I Ever Need Is You" (with Kenny Rogers) "'Til I Can Make It on My Own" (with Kenny Rogers)

Guest singles	"There's a Story (Goin' 'Round)" (with Don Gibson) "Together Again" (with Kenny Rogers)

Related	Albums Singles Shelly West Chet Atkins RCA Victor Records Grand Ole Opry

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