Ruby Baby

"Ruby Baby" is a song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. It was originally recorded by the Drifters. Their version was released on a single by Atlantic Records as catalog number 45 1089 in 1956.[1] This original version peaked at No. 10 on the US R&B chart.[2]

"Ruby Baby"
Single by Dion
Released	1963
Recorded	1962
Songwriter(s)	Jerry Leiber Mike Stoller
Dion singles chronology
"Love Came to Me" (1962) "Ruby Baby" (1963) "Sandy" (1963)

"Ruby Baby"
Single by Billy "Crash" Craddock
from the album Rub It In
B-side	"Walk When Love Walks"
Released	October 1974
Recorded	February 1974
Genre	Country
Label	ABC 12036
Songwriter(s)	Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Producer(s)	Ron Chancey
Billy "Crash" Craddock singles chronology
"Rub It In" (1974) "Ruby Baby" (1974) "Still Thinkin' 'Bout You" (1975)

Other versions

The song has been recorded by several artists, including:

• Columbia Records released a remake by Dion on a single recorded in 1962, as catalogue number 4 42662.[3] giving him a major worldwide success. It reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 (behind "Hey Paula" by Paul & Paula and "Walk Like a Man" by The Four Seasons), and also peaked at No. 5 on the R&B chart.[4]
• In 1963 Richard Anthony realized a cover in French language, lyric by André Salvet and Claude Carrère, (Columbia Records, ESRF 1391) for the album Richard Anthony (Columbia Records, FPX 234) for France, Canada and Italy.
• The Beach Boys. Their version was released on the band's 1993 box set Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of The Beach Boys as an outtake from the 1965 Beach Boys' Party! album. There was also a version recorded for their 1976 "comeback" album, 15 Big Ones which can be found on various bootlegs of that era.
• Korean singer BoA uses elements of this song in her single, "Rock with You".
• Canadian band Wednesday scored a hit in Canada with a rock version in 1976.
• BWB performed an instrumental cover of the song on their album Groovin' .
• Billy "Crash" Craddock who had a number one country hit.[5] This version was included the album Rub It In in 1974. It was also released on his 2009 live album Live -N- Kickin'.
• Bobby Darin. Released on the LP 18 Yellow Roses & 11 Other Hits by Capitol Records as catalog number ST 1942 in 1963.[6]
• Ronnie Dove recorded the song in 1969 for Diamond Records. It went unreleased until it was issued on CD in the late 1980s.
• Donald Fagen, of Steely Dan, also recorded a version on his 1982 solo album, The Nightfly.
• Björk Guðmundsdóttir & Tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar
• Ronnie Hawkins. Recorded on April 13, 1959. It was released on the LP Ronnie Hawkins by Roulette Records as catalog number SR 25078 in August 1959.[7]
• A young Miguel Ríos recorded a version on his fifth EP (1963).
• Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser recorded a version of the song called "Rudy" available only on his Archive set of CDs.
• Del Shannon. Released on the LP Handy Man by Amy Records as catalog numbers 8003-M (mono) and 8003-S (stereo) in 1964.[8]
• Tony Sheridan & The Beat Brothers.
• Bobby Rydell - The top hits of 1963 sung by Bobby Rydell.
• Mitch Ryder - Sings the Hits (1968)
• John Woolley and Just Born - Recorded August 1969, 13 weeks in Belgium hit parade in 1970
• Australian band Ol' 55 released a version in 1978 as the fourth single from their third studio album Cruisin' for a Bruisin' (1978). The song peaked at number 36 on the Australian Kent Music Report.

Advertising

Apple Inc. used the Dion cover of the song during its ad campaign for the new "Ruby" color of its July 19, 2000, revision of the iMac G3.

In popular culture

• The song was included in the musical revue Smokey Joe's Cafe. Instrumental parts of the Donald Fagen version from The Nightfly were used as background music during the party scene in the Sandra Bullock romantic comedy movie Love Potion No. 9.

References

1. "Tracks on Ruby Baby - The Drifters (February 1956)". SecondHandSongs. Retrieved 2016-08-22.
2. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 173.
3. "Tracks on Ruby Baby - Dion (January 1963)". SecondHandSongs. Retrieved 2016-08-22.
4. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 159.
5. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 91.
6. "Tracks on Take It Greasy - Ol' 55 (1976)". SecondHandSongs. Retrieved 2016-08-22.
7. "Tracks on Ronnie Hawkins - Ronnie Hawkins and The Hawks (August 1959)". SecondHandSongs. Retrieved 2016-08-22.
8. "Album Discography". Delshannon.com. Retrieved 2016-08-22.