For Those of You Checking the Calendar, "Be My Baby" is 50 Years Old

The song debuted at #90 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending August 31, 1963. It spent 3 weeks at #2 during the month of October.  (Never reached the top spot.  Kept at bay by "Sugar Shack", a song that always had me reaching for the radio tuner knob. Still does, actually.)



Still Tingling Spines, 50 Years Later.  ‘Be My Baby,’ a Hit Single With Staying Power. (The New York Times, 8/16/2013)

as quoted in the Times article

I'm with you, Brian, but I suspect this guy will beg to differ.  (From a 1973 review of Mean Streets.")

I assume that's sense 2b.

Here's the rest of the jukebox flotsam.

The "real" Addition DeWitt.

1:04.


Phil Spector's 'Wall of Sound'.  (NPR, 3/19/2007)