Cry Baby Cry

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"Cry Baby Cry"
Song by The Beatles from the album The Beatles
Released 22 November 1968
Recorded 16 July 1968
EMI Studios, London
Genre Rock
Length 3:03
Label Apple Records
Writer Lennon–McCartney
Producer George Martin
The Beatles track listing

"Cry Baby Cry" is a song by The Beatles, written by John Lennon,[1] from their 1968 album The Beatles.

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[edit] Composition

Demos of the song indicate that Lennon wrote the song in late 1967. The original lyrics were "Cry baby cry, make your mother buy." Lennon described to biographer Hunter Davies how he got the words from an advertisement.[2]

[edit] Recording

Engineer Geoff Emerick quit during the recording of "Cry Baby Cry", though his departure was precipitated by Lennon and McCartney's obsessions over the recording of both "Revolution" and "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da", respectively, and the overall tensions of the White Album sessions. Emerick would not work with the Beatles again until the session for "The Ballad of John and Yoko" nine months later.[3]

[edit] "Can You Take Me Back"

The song is followed on the album by an unrelated and unlisted track which features lead vocals by Paul McCartney. Though the song has no official name, it is popularly known as "Can You Take Me Back" (after the primary lyric of the song). The hidden track is an improvised jam recorded by the band during a 16 September 1968 session for "I Will".[4]

[edit] Personnel

Per Ian MacDonald:[5]

[edit] Cover versions


[edit] Notes

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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