My Baby's Gone Away
1970 · Down to Earth 101 · USA
- Artist
- The Chymes
- Title
- My Baby's Gone Away
- Release
- My Baby's Gone Away / Where I Come From
- Year
- 1970
- Label
- Down to Earth # 101
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- David Martin & Burgess Gardner
- Genre
- Soul, Gospel & Funk · Soul
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
The song "My Baby's Gone Away" (Down to Earth Records # 71) released in 1970 by the Chymes (aka Chimes) - a US soul group from Chicago, featuring the harmonies of the three brothers Victor, David, and James Martin, also known as the Star-Tels. The Chymes were supported on this track by the Soul Crusaders, the house band of the Chicago label Lamarr run by Burgess and Walter Gardner (of which Down to Earth Records was a sub-label).1 This song is concerned with a soldier "out of the army now, back from Vietnam", who revisits his old neighbourhood, only to discover that his girl has left him. He sadly sings that "she should have never let me go".Sources1Chicago Soul (Robert Pruter, 1992)↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Soul, Gospel, & Funk Songs
The song "My Baby's Gone Away" (Down to Earth Records # 71) released in 1970 by the Chymes (aka Chimes) - a US soul group from Chicago, featuring the harmonies of the three brothers Victor, David, and James Martin, also known as the Star-Tels. The Chymes were supported on this track by the Soul Crusaders, the house band of the Chicago label Lamarr run by Burgess and Walter Gardner (of which Down to Earth Records was a sub-label).1 This song is concerned with a soldier "out of the army now, back from Vietnam", who revisits his old neighbourhood, only to discover that his girl has left him. He sadly sings that "she should have never let me go". Sources1Chicago Soul (Robert Pruter, 1992)↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: I'm out the army now, back from Vietnam / Went to my old neighbourhood to find someone I know / I walked down the street to my baby's door / Her mother tells me she don't live here no more / My baby's gone away... / I love my baby so, she should have never let me go... / I remember reading all her letters / How she used to say / That she'd wait forever come what may
Notes
Down to Earth 101-A, yellow label, "Mfd. by LaMarr Prod. Co. 746 E. 75th St. Chgo., Ill.", with "71" printed; "My Baby's Gone Away" (D. Martin-B. Gardner), Merye-Earl Music (BMI), 2:30; produced by Walter & Burgess Gardner; arranged and conducted by Burgess Gardner, background music by the Soul Crusaders Recording Orchestra. [From the record sleeve and labels]
Themes
In collections
US Domestic Perspective Songs [War Years] · Soul, Gospel, & Funk Songs