VA - Baby, Please Don't Go (A Butterboy Compilation) - Blues (2 x CD's), Rock (4 x CD's), Live (1 x CD)

BABY, PLEASE DON'T GO...

VA - Baby, Please Don't Go (A Butterboy Compilation) -  Blues (2 x CD's), Rock (4 x CD's), Live (1 x CD)

"Baby, Please Don't Go" is a traditional blues song that was popularized by Delta blues musician Big Joe Williams in 1935. Many cover versions followed, leading to its description as "one of the most played, arranged, and rearranged pieces in blues history" by French music historian Gérard Herzhaft. After World War II, Chicago blues and rhythm and blues artists adapted the song to newer music styles. In 1952, a doo-wop version by the Orioles reached the top ten on the R&B chart. In 1953, Muddy Waters recorded the song as an electric Chicago-ensemble blues piece, which influenced many subsequent renditions. By the early 1950s, the song became a blues standard.  In the 1960s, "Baby, Please Don't Go" became a popular rock song after the Northern Irish group Them recorded it in 1964. Jimmy Page, a studio guitarist at the time, participated in the recording session, possibly on rhythm guitar. Subsequently, Them's uptempo rock arrangement also made it a rock standard. "Baby, Please Don't Go" has been inducted into both the Blues and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame.

"Baby, Please Don't Go" is likely an adaptation of "Long John", an old folk theme which dates back to the time of slavery in the United States. Blues researcher Paul Garon notes that the melody is based on "Alabamy Bound", composed by Tin Pan Alley writer Ray Henderson, with lyrics by Buddy DeSylva and Bud Green in 1925. The song, a vaudeville show tune, inspired several other songs between 1925 and 1935, such as "Elder Greene Blues", "Alabama Bound", and "Don't You Leave Me Here". These variants were recorded by Charlie Patton, Lead Belly, Monette Moore, Henry Thomas, and Tampa Red.  Author Linda Dahl suggests a connection to a song with the same title by Mary Williams Johnson in the late 1920's and early 1930's. However, Johnson, who was married to jazz-influenced blues guitarist Lonnie Johnson, never recorded it and her song is not discussed as influencing later performers. Blues researcher Jim O'Neal notes that Williams "sometimes said that the song was written by his wife, singer Bessie Mae Smith (aka Blue Belle and St. Louis Bessie)."

Big Joe Williams used the imprisonment theme for his October 31, 1935, recording of "Baby, Please Don't Go". He recorded it during his first session for Lester Melrose and Bluebird Records in Chicago. It is an ensemble piece with Williams on vocal and guitar accompanied by Dad Tracy on one-string fiddle and Chasey "Kokomo" Collins on washboard, who are listed as "Joe Williams' Washboard Blues Singers" on the single. Musical notation for the song indicates a moderate-tempo fifteen-bar blues in 4/4 or common time in the key of B flat. As with many Delta blues songs of the era, it remains on the tonic chord (I) throughout without the progression to the subdominant (IV) or dominant (V) chords. 

The lyrics express a prisoner's anxiety about his lover leaving before he returns home:

Now baby please don't go, now baby please don't go

Baby, please don't go back to New Orleans, and get your cold ice cream

I believe there's a man done gone, I believe there's a man done gone

I believe there's a man done gone to the county farm, with a long chain on

The song became a hit and established Williams' recording career. On December 12, 1941, he recorded a second version titled "Please Don't Go" in Chicago for Bluebird, with a more modern arrangement and lyrics. Blues historian Gerard Herzhaft calls it "the most exciting version", which Williams recorded using his trademark nine-string guitar. Accompanying him are Sonny Boy Williamson I on harmonica and Alfred Elkins on imitation bass (possibly a washtub bass). Since both songs appeared before recording industry publications began tracking such releases, it is unknown which version was more popular. In 1947, he recorded it for Columbia Records with Williamson and Ransom Knowling on bass and Judge Riley on drums. This version did not reach the Billboard Race Records chart, but represents a move toward a more urban blues treatment of the song. (Wikipedia)

Presented here are 143 versions of this fantastic track. 2 x CD's to Blues versions, 1 x CD to Live versions and 4 x CD's are devoted to Rock versions. Enjoy

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Rock    Blues    Live

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Track lists

Blues CD1

01 Joe Williams' Washboard Blues Singers Baby, Please Don't Go (1935) 3:25

01 Big Joe Williams Baby, Please Don't Go (1941) 2:47

02 Bukka White Baby, Please Don't Go 3:39

03 Lightnin' Hopkins Baby Please Don't Go 2:51

04 Pink Anderson Baby, Please Don't Go 2:47

05 John Lee Hooker Baby, Please Don't Go 2:30

06 Whispering Smith Baby, Please Don't Go 2:23

07 Tampa Kid Baby, Please Don't Go 2:38

08 Blind James Campbell Baby, Please Don't Go 2:19

09 Rose Mitchell Baby, Please Don't Go 2:25

10 Muddy Waters Baby, Please Don't Go 2:39

11 Eddie Lee Jones & Family Baby, Please Don't Go 1:52

12 Guy Davis Baby, Please Don't Go 4:01

13 Champion Jack Dupree With Henry Baby, Please Don't Go 2:31

14 Jessie Mae Hemphill Baby, Please Don't Go 3:05

15 Big Maybelle Baby, Please Don't Go 3:55

16 Clifton Chenier Baby, Please Don't Go 2:31

17 Circulation Baby, Please Dont Go 1:49

18 John Mooney Baby, Please Don't Go 4:22

19 Mance Lipscomb Baby, Please Don't Go 2:23

20 Tracy Nelson Baby, Please Don't Go 2:01

21 Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee Back to New Orleans 3:01

Blues CD2

22 Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis Baby, Please Don't Go 1:51

23 Harry Manx Baby Please Don't Go 2:41

24 Paul Butterfield Baby, Please Don't Go 3:20

25 Orioles Baby, Please Don't Go 2:24

26 Steve Hill Baby, Please Don't Go 2:29

27 Toby Walker Baby, Please Don't Go 3:11

28 Tom Rush Baby, Please Don't Go 2:51

29 Sue Allen & Oscar Black Baby, Please Don't Go 2:49

30 Eric Andersen Baby, Please Don't Go 3:25

31 Dharma Blues Band Baby, Please Don't Go 2:54

32 Big Gilson & Blues Dynamite Baby, Please Don't Go 3:04

33 Sonny Landreth Baby, Please Don't Go 3:14

34 Richard Ray Farrell & Steve Guyger Baby, Please Don't Go 2:45

35 Renée Geyer Baby, Please Don't Go 2:54

36 Henry Townsend Baby, Please Don't Go 3:27

37 Gizelle Baby, Please Don't Go 3:02

38 Ottilie Patterson Baby, Please Don't Go 1:45

39 Cedric Watson Baby, Please Don't Go 3:28

40 Christine & the Blue Drags Baby, Please Don't Go 3:02

41 Doctor Harp's Medicine Band Baby, Please Don't Go 2:42

42 Big Joe Williams Baby, Please Don't Go 2:47

Live!

01 Jon Lord & the Hoochie Coochie Men Baby, Please Don't Go (Live) 3:59

02 Oxford Circle Baby, Please Don't Go (Live) 5:16

03 Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Baby, Please Don't Go (Live) 5:22

04 Ted Nugent Baby, Please Don't Go (Live) 5:58

05 Rod Stewart Baby, Please Don't Go (Live) 3:14

06 John Lennon Well Baby, Please Don't Go (Live) 4:33

07 Muddy Waters Baby, Please Don't Go (Live) 3:03

08 Delta Moon Baby, Please Don't Go (Live) 8:02

09 Blues Band Baby, Please Don't Go (Live) 4:47

10 Muddy Waters & the Rolling Stones Baby, Please Don't Go (Live) (Instrumental) 2:00

11 Tim Knol Feat. Djurre De Haan, Vincent Beijer, Bram Hakkens Baby, Please Don't Go (Live) 4:23

12 Blues Creation Baby, Please Don't Go (Live) 10:58

13 Purple Helmets Baby, Please Don't Go (Live) 4:11

14 Mason Rack Band Baby, Please Don't Go (Live) 3:50

15 Lothar and the Hand People Baby, Please Don't Go (Live) 2:20

16 Alvin Lee Baby, Please Don't Go (Live) 2:09

17 Al Kooper Baby, Please Don't Go (Live) 8:25

18 Wild Cherries Baby, Please Don't Go (Live) 6:11

19 Johnny Copeland Baby, Please Don't Go (Live) 6:10

20 Bob Dylan Baby, Please Don't Go (Live) 2:14

21 Napoleon Strickland Baby, Please Don't Go (Live) 1:55

Rock CD1

01 Jasper Baby, Please Don't Go 7:14

02 Bill Wyman Baby, Please Don't Go 2:36

03 Jeff Cook Well Baby, Please Don't Go 3:08

04 T Michael Coleman Honey, Please Don't Go 3:20

05 Willie and the Poor Boys Baby, Please Don't Go 2:37

06 Ballroom Baby, Please Don't Go (Mono) 3:09

07 Mose Allison Baby, Please Don't Go 2:17

08 Mods Baby, Please Don't Go 2:38

09 Watermelon Slim and the Workers Baby, Please Don't Go 2:43

10 Thomas Truax Baby, Please Don't Go 4:59

11 John Kay and the Sparrow Baby, Please Don't Go 3:14

12 Curved Air Baby, Please Don't Go 2:31

13 Bill Morrissey & Greg Brown Baby, Please Don't Go 2:04

14 Tony Lane & the Fabulous Spades Baby, Please Don't Go 2:41

15 Paul Revere & the Raiders Baby, Please Don't Go 2:30

16 Mickey Finn Baby, Please Don't Go 3:11

17 Amboy Dukes Baby, Please Don't Go (45 Edit) 2:43

18 Fox Baby, Please Don't Go 6:52

19 Bob Dylan Baby, Please Don't Go 4:11

20 Them Baby, Please Don't Go 2:44

Rock CD2

21 Al Kooper Baby, Please Don't Go 12:23

22 John Lennon Well, Baby Please Don't Go (Studio Outtake) 5:51

23 Budgie Baby, Please Don't Go 5:25

24 Billy Lee Riley & the Little Green Men Baby, Please Don't Go 2:07

25 AC/DC Baby, Please Don't Go 4:48

26 Tony Joe White Baby, Please Don't Go 4:25

27 Wentus Blues Band Baby, Please Don't Go 3:25

28 Beacon Street Union Baby, Please Don't Go 17:19

29 Bluefrog and His Band Baby, Please Don't Go 4:11

30 Blue Jeans Baby, Please Don't Go 2:34

31 Billy Gibbons and the BFG's Baby, Please Don’t Go 2:29

32 Cuby & the Blizzards Baby, Please Don't Go (Back to New Orleans) 1:38

33 Blues Syndicate Baby, Please Don't Go 2:26

34 Bourke & the Revolving Door Baby, Please Don't Go 3:20

35 Danny Kalb Baby, Please Don't Go 3:00

36 Dr Harp's Medicine Band Baby, Please Don't Go 2:42

37 Dion Baby, Please Don't Go 2:14

38 Crazy Crackers Baby, Please Don't Go 4:34

39 Ted Nugent & the Amboy Dukes Baby, Please Don't Go 5:41

40 Aerosmith Baby, Please Don't Go 3:23

Rock CD3

41 Fabrizio Poggi & Chicken Mambo Feat. Claudio Noseda Baby, Please Don't Go 2:20

42 John Campbelljohn Baby, Please Don't Go 3:58

43 Jacen Bruce Baby, Please Don't Go 3:01

44 Brian Spencer Blues Project Baby, Please Don't Go 3:38

45 Justin Johnson Baby, Please Don’t Go 4:23

46 Keith Turner and the Southern Sound Baby, Please Don't Go 3:22

47 Seasick Steve Baby, Please Don't Go 4:12

48 Sterling Ball, John Ferraro, Jim Cox Feat. Steve Lukather Baby, Please Don't Go 2:37

49 Georgie Fame Baby, Please Don't Go 2:54

50 Zakk Wylde Baby, Please Don't Go 3:58

51 Moonrakers Baby, Please Don't Go 3:01

52 T-Bone Walker Don't Go Back to New Orleans 1:24

53 Fuzztones Baby, Please Don't Go 6:59

54 Franky Perez, the Forest Rangers Baby, Please Don't Go 3:05

55 David A. Burdick Baby, Please Don't Go 2:41

56 Buddy Ace Baby, Please Don't Go 1:57

57 Typhoons Baby, Please Don't Go 2:33

58 Troyce Key Baby, Please Don't Go 2:12

59 Demian Band Baby, Please Don't Go 3:34

60 Number Nine With Paul Ansell's Baby, Please Don't Go 2:02

Rock CD4

61 Baptism of Uzi Baby, Please Don't Go 8:17

62 Druids of Stonehenge Baby, Please Don't Go 2:27

63 Novato Frank Band Baby, Please Don't Go 4:35

64 Webb Wilder & the Beatnecks Baby, Please Don't Go 5:37

65 Malchicks Baby, Please Don't Go 2:47

66 Tony Lane & the Fabulous Spade Baby, Please Don't Go 2:41

67 Fenton Robinson Baby, Please Don't Go 4:24

68 Le Grand Mellon Baby, Please Don't Go 2:21

69 Tabasco Tom, Doc White Baby, Please Don't Go 4:15

70 Rising Storm Baby, Please Don't Go 2:52

71 Gaetano Pellino Feat. Soul Sarah Baby, Please Don't Go 5:57

72 Sparrow Baby, Please Don't Go 4:24

73 Jo Ann Henderson Baby, Please Don't Go 2:43

74 Beausoliel Baby, Please Don't Go 3:50

75 Los Young Beats Baby, Please Don´t Go 2:52

76 Mc5 Baby, Please Don't Go (Live, 1966) 3:57

77 Boots Baby, Please Don't Go 2:34

78 Leslie West Baby, Please Don't Go 4:09

79 Gary Glitter Baby, Please Don't Go 2:53

80 Chambers Brothers Baby, Please Don't Go 3:45

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