Baby Babe

Do you mean titles with the word Baby in'em? If so, I would love to see Roky E's version of the Bob Dylan song Baby Blue

amy grant "baby baby". i think there's an eighth wonder song with the same title

either baby or babe

sweet jesus ~ real babe

Rubettes - Sugar Baby Love
Bob Dylan - It Ain't Me Babe
Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares for Me

Ronettes - Be My Baby & Baby, I Love You
Supremes - Baby Love
Sonny and Cher - I Got You, Babe
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
Vibrators - Baby Baby Baby
Belle and Sebastien - You're Just a Baby
The Boxtops - Cry Like a Baby
Teenage Fanclub - Metal Baby
Paul Anka - She's Having My Baby

talulah gosh ~ bringing up baby (their only good song?)

controversial Gareth! always preferred the eponymous song myself.

anyway, Baby by Gil Gilberto (I think that was his first name, B&S covered it in Sao Paolo and Glasgow)

that's such a great song! os mutantes and gal costa do great versions too.

babe ruth ~ the mexican (is the name of the artist allowed?)

I guess noone will want to have No Doubt on there ey? ;-)

ooo baby baby - smokey

ethan'll be along in a minute to suggest 'Babe' by styx

I thort his name was "Gilberto Gil". If you're talking about the 50s-ish Brazilian guy that does "Expresso 222"

someone needs to write a song called "Don't Wake the Baby" where every line is urgently whispered.

I'm not even going to try to list the hundreds of tunes I have with Babe or Baby in the title, but here are some great ones so far unmentioned (I think): (My Baby Does) Good Sculptures or Can't Stand My Baby (Rezillos), Annie Had A Baby (Hank Ballard & the Midniters), Baby (Iggy), Baby Blue (Gene Vincent), Baby Boomerang or Baby Strange (T. Rex), Baby Come On Home (Mighty Sam, Solomon Burke), Baby Do You Turn Me On? (Tim Rose), Baby Doll (Chic, N.E.R.D., Link Wray, Bessie Smith - not all the same song!), Baby Don't You Weep (Garnet Mimms), Baby Face (Little Richard - yes, that song), Baby Huey (Richard Hell), Baby I'm a Star (Prince), The Baby Is Mine (Swamp Dogg), Baby It's You (Curtis Mayfield, Elvis Costello, Shirelles), Baby Let's Play House (Arthur Gunther, Rachel Sweet), Baby Please (Prisonaires, Ike Turner), Baby Please Don't Go (Billy Lee Riley, Them, Muddy Waters), Baby Please Set A Date (Elmore James), Baby What You Want Me To Do (Jimmy Reed), Baby What's Wrong (Elmore James, Lonnie Mack), Baby Won't Ya (MC5), Baby Won't You Please Come Home (Louis Prima, Frank Sinatra), Baby You're Right (James Brown, Joe Tex), Baby, Baby Don't Cry (Smokey Robinson), Baby, Baby I Need You (Temptations), Baby, Baby, Baby (Aretha Franklin), Baby, Don't Be Looking In My Mind (Joe Simon), Baby Let Me Follow You Down (Bob Dylan), Baby, No, No! (Big Ma Rainey), Baby, You Can Depend On Me (Esquerita), Babylon (New York Dolls - sorry!), Baby's Gotten Good At Goodbyes (George Strait), Bad Baby (PIL), Bad News Baby (There'll Be No Rocking Tonight) (Wynonie Harris), Bang Belly Baby (Culture), Between You Baby And Me (Curtis Mayfield), Big Blond Baby (Jerry Lee Lewis), Black Market Baby (Tom Waits), Blues For My Baby (Rosco Gordon), Bobby Sox Baby or Have Mercy Baby or My Baby's 3-D (Billy Ward and the Dominoes), Bottle To The Baby (Charlie Feathers), Brown Baby (Billy Paul, Nina Simone), Burn Baby Burn (Blab Happy), Bye Bye Baby (Blind Boy Fuller, Madonna, Otis Williams & the Charms), Johnny (Baby Please Come Home) (Darlene Love), Come Back Baby (Mitty Collier, Aretha), Come On Baby (Moby), Comin' Home Baby (Booker T & the MGs), Coming Back To Me Baby (James Carr), Coney Island Baby (Lou Reed), Congratulations Baby (Doris Duke), Cry Baby (Garnet Mimms, Humanoid), Crying Baby, Baby, Baby (Percy Mylem), Do Me, Baby (Prince), Don't Worry Baby (Beach Boys), Dream Baby (Roy Orbison), Dream Baby Dream (Suicide), Fried Chicken Baby (Slough Boys), Gee Baby Gee (Butterflies), Giant Sized Baby Thing (Bow Wow Wow), Go Baby Go (Danny Ross), Good Night Baby (Sam & Dave), Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye)(Solomon Burke), The Baby Is A Gourmet (Bogshed), Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadows (Rolling Stones), He Called Me Baby (Patsy Cline, Ella Washington), Hey Baby (Chia Pet, Bo Diddley, Stooges), Hold On Baby (Isley Brothers), Howlin' For My Baby (Howlin' Wolf), I Came To Get My Baby (Out Of Jail)(Mighty Sam), I Can't Wait To See My Baby's Face (Dusty Springfield), I Got To Find My Baby (Chuck Berry), I See You Baby (Groove Armada), I Sleep Just Like A Baby (George Jones), I Wanna Lay Down With You Baby (Barry White), I'm A Hog For You Baby (Coasters), I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby (Captain Beefheart), I'm Nobody's Baby Now (Reparata & the Delrons), I'm Stickin' With You Baby (Little Willie John), Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby (Louis Jordan), I've Got A Baby And She's Still In Her Teens (Gene Vincent), Just Kissed My Baby (Meters), Just Like A Baby (Sly & the Family Stone), The KKK Took My Baby Away (Ramones), Let Me Tell You Baby (Larry Williams), Let's Get Busy Baby (Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince), Limbo (Baby Limbo) (John Cooper-Clarke), Lonely For You Baby (Sam Dees), Mama's Baby Daddy's Maybe (Swamp Dogg), Maybe Baby (Esquerita), My Baby (Don Bryant, Temptations, Ike Turner), My Baby Left Me (Slade), My Baby Wants To Rock & Roll (Iggy), My Brown Frame Baby (H-Bomb Ferguson), My Curly Headed Baby (Paul Robeson), My Melancholy Baby (Frank Sinatra), Nobody's Baby Now (Nick Cave), Oh Baby (Falcons), Oh! No Not My Baby (Rod Stewart), One For My Baby (Frank Sinatra, Willie Nelson, Billie Holiday), Ooh Baby (West Street Mob), Pretty Baby (Blondie), Reconsider Baby (Bobby Bland), Rock With Me Baby (Billy Lee Riley), Rock Your Baby (George McCrae), Rock-a-Bye Baby (Big Mama Thornton), Run Baby Run (Cos I've Gotta Gun)(Lolita Storm), See My Baby Jive (Wizzard), Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Gettin') (Devo), Soldier Baby Of Mine (Ronettes), Somethin' 'Bout You Baby I Like (Tom Jones), Stay With Me Baby (Lorraine Ellison, Shirley Brown, Walker Brothers), Talking About My Baby (Impressions), There's No Other Like My Baby (Crystals), Think It Over Baby (O'Jays), Too Busy Thinking About My Baby (Marvin Gaye), TV Baby (Magazine), Vietnamese Baby (New York Dolls), When My Baby Hit The Numbers (Guitar Crusher), When Something Is Wrong With My Baby (Sam & Dave), Where Are You Baby? (Betty Boo), Won't You Be My Baby, Baby (Leila), Workin' For My Baby (Gary US Bonds), Would You Be My Baby (Chic), You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby (Smiths), You Upset Me Baby (BB King). Next is songs with babies in the title: Babies (Pulp, Wu-Tang Clan - sadly not their cover), Babies Makin' Babies (Sly & the Family Stone), Bouncing Babies (Teardrop Explodes), Brooklyn Babies (RZA), Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys (Willie Nelson), Uptown Babies Don't Cry (Max Romeo), Why Are Babies So Wise? (Bow Wow Wow). And some babes: Cheri Babe (Hot Chocolate), Hey Babe (Neil Young), Honey Babe (Lightnin' Hopkins), Hot Babes (Stupids), It Ain't Me Babe (Bob Dylan), My Babe (Little Walter, Roy Head), Oh Babe (Louis Prima), Smokin Japanese Babe (Future Sound Of London), Sugar Babe (Eggs), Video Babe (Alan Vega), Viva La Megababes (Shampoo). Phew, I think it's fair to say...

damn! more like the BABEZBOX

Martin: do you have some supercool database or something to go nuts with listing like that, or just a super-brain which if used for nefarious purposes could rule (or at least recall) the world.

Yes, I have a database, and it's fantastic. It generates random compilations for me, as well as being easy to search for words in titles, as well as lots of other ways. I built it myself in a few hours a few years ago, then spent approximately fucking forever entering the data. It's great for finding things now. That baby/babe list, incidentally, was only a fraction of the 800+ tracks I have with those words (even after I take out the Babylons).

Obviously I have a superbrain as well, but my attempts to take over the world have so far been less than fully successful.

Martin - I decided to put 'He'd be a Diamond' and Sonic Youth's 'The Diamond Sea' on a comp, before realising they shared the word 'diamond'. Driving home yesterday trying to think of a third I could add, not keen on 'Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes' or 'Diamond Lights', so - yr database (or anyone's brain) got any other diamond 'Diamond' tracks?

Dan, from the top of my brain: "Shine on you crazy diamond" from Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd. But I think it is quite long.

Tracer = OTM about Gilberto Gil, me = arse about face.

Does "Soothing Sounds For Baby" Volumes 1-3 by Raymond Scott qualify?

'Diamond Lights' by the Boomtown Rats hehe

Ooops, just noticed you already rejected that one - ok, howzabout 'Diamonds and Pearls' by Prince...

Andrew - ah, but the one I meant was Chris Waddle/Glenn Hoddle's 80's novelty tat.

Diamonds: even before looking, Tom Waits's Diamonds On My Windshield leaps to mind. Others: Big Blue Diamonds (Little Willie John), Black Diamond Bay (Bob Dylan), Diamond Head (Beach Boys), The Diamond Sky (Chemical Brothers), Diamonds and Gold (Tom Waits again), Diamonds and Pearls (Wailing Souls), Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend (I only have a T-Bone Burnett version), Diamonds At Your Feet (Muddy Waters), Diamonds, Fur Coat, Champagne (Fatima Mansions), Field Of Diamonds (Johnny Cash), Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (William Shatner's is best).

Then there are the Mighty Diamonds, Neil Diamond, the Diamonds (I have two acts by this name, reggae (don't know offhand if they later became Mighty) and rock 'n' roll), Hairy Diamond, Diamond Joe or Doughboy Diamond (one of the great bluesmen names).

Stxy had a song called "Babe"

Proof that the appeal of a song with Babe in the title rests with the other words.

chris, you must be v. acrobatic

"Using the Hope Diamond as a Doorstop" and "Two-way Diamond I" and II by American Analog Set. Woo.

Tracer, no I just have a big arse.