No Other Baby

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From Wikipedia:

“No Other Baby” is a song written by Dickie Bishop and Bob Watson, originally recorded in 1957 by Dickie Bishop and The Sidekicks. Early cover versions were recorded by The Vipers (1958), Bobby Helms (1959) and Paul and Paula (1964).

Paul McCartney recorded “No Other Baby” for his 1999 cover album Run Devil Run and released it as the only single from the album. The song reached number 42 on the UK singles chart.

The Paul McCartney version was released as a 7″ single and two CD singles, one of which was mixed in mono.

From the liner notes of “Run Devil Run“:

The most obscure song on the album. It was released as a single in 1958 by a British skiffle group The Vipers. “I’ve no idea how this one got so embedded I my memory…I never had the record, still haven’t.”

From an interview with Laura Gross (promotional interview for “Run Devil Run” in 1999):

Paul McCartney: No Other Baby was a strange track, because I didn’t have a record of it. I didn’t know who’d recorded it or who’d written it. But I knew I loved the song from late ’50’s. And so that was one I pulled out my envelop, say, anyone know this. They said, no. They had really no idea. I’d barely knew it. But I just remembered it, and remembered the verses. It’s just a simple song. And I always wanted to do it. We used to do it at soundchecks actually on the, on the, on the tour we used to do it. I found out lately that it was recorded by an English group who were like a skiffle group. Was before rock ‘n’ roll for us here. And they were called the Vipers. They were like a favorite little skiffle group of ours. Funny though, I was talking to George Martin on the phone the other day and I said, I was telling him about No Other Baby, I said, do you know who this song is by. He said, I doubt we even did it. I’ve since found out, it was by the Vipers, you know. And I suddenly realized while I was talking to George, wait a minute George, you recorded the Vipers. He said, yes, I did. I said, well, this song’s called No Other Baby, how does it go. He said, I said, I don’t want no other, he said, oh yes, I remember it. So it turned out we talked about, coming full circle. George actually recorded the original thing.

It’s worth noticing that Paul recorded “No Other Baby” in 1987 during the Choba B CCCP sessions; the full recording has not surfaced yet, but a snippet figures on a medley which leaked online in April 2010, presumably from cassettes from the legacy of former Wings roadie Trevor Jones, auctioned off by Christie’s in 1998.

Last updated on September 20, 2016

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