Hey Baby
Bruce Channel Lyrics

@Flongowild

Sweet memories 💜 Greetings from Denmark. I live in Copenhagen, was six years of age in 1959.

@DJarry394

I was maybe six when this hit the radio. I loved it so much, I felt it in my heart. So much joy! Music is a life saver

@eddyvideostar

Dear D: Deep and delightful sentence. Music is a lifesaver.

@drewali4277

My high school band played this on Friday nights right before we secured a win nothing but warm feelings

@serenettie222

mine too! This was one of our favorites to twirl too just goofing off on the side of the field in between touchdowns

@thanoskitten230

same

@leahbee9072

Can we all admire that he is alive and about to be 80

@flomurdock

Yes indeed. And he and Delbert have stayed friends, and Delbert has a cruise most years, and always has a place for Bruce on it!!! And he always sings his songs in the key of D Doggie!!

@eddyvideostar

I'm glad: I would like to go and see him live.

@ceeceetracey9839

Respect. Great song

@chocolatcats

He's 83 and today is 1/18/2024 I wish I was his baby!

@eddyvideostar

Dear Leah Bee, Great news? Thank you. Wonderful!

@adree5208

there's so many band kids here and I love it

@TheMemeMachine

yess!!

@carlyduke13

AND A TWENTY ONE PILOTS FAN I SEE???

@laviniashiponeni1

hey fellow mutant

@BS-hq6iz

Adree we play this in band to

@madirandall

Adree YESSSS!!!

@stanyoung453

Bit of musical trivia:  The harmonica player is Delbert McClinton who later showed John Lennon a few blues harmonica tricks (Love Me Do).  Delbert is still playing and IMHO, doing some of his best stuff ever.

@emilydavlin4597

+Stan Young AMEN!!

@junaid009k

Thank you!

@bobbyvanbrunt8134

Saw him at a concert in a sweet potato barn in Hugo, NC around 2012. One of the greatest concerts I ever saw.

@johnalbrecht5316

Stan Young Thanks

@paulhill5644

I listened to Don Imus, too.

@dr.migilitoloveless2385

I'm 67years old. Hearing this song takes me back to my early childhood.😊

@74bshs

I'm 68. Great song. Just had our 50th high school class reunion in June. Where does time go?

@engineeringartist4801

​@@74bshsIt's in reference frames as our solar system moves us through outer space at 650k miles per hour. Anyhoo... I'm bout to turn 70. Loved 1950's and 60's culture. Peace.

Boomers. Stupid memories spread to people who don't care about anything but how these boomers destroyed their future.

@91Kingscrib84

Loved & danced to it at the time, but was blown away to find out years later it was one of my all-time fave harp players, Delbert McClinton, who played that iconic harp intro. Boy, from the 1st note, you the song & were ready to dance!🎵

@jamescook2365

John Lennon owned a portable Discomatic jukebox in the mid-60s, and the documentary "John Lennon's Jukebox" explores the records in that jukebox, including Bruce Channel's "Hey! Baby". 

Here's a more detailed explanation:

The Jukebox:

In the mid-60s, John Lennon purchased a portable Discomatic jukebox that held forty 45 rpm records. 

Documentary:

"John Lennon's Jukebox" is a documentary that examines the records in Lennon's jukebox, focusing on his musical taste and influences on the Beatles. 

Featured Songs:

The documentary features songs like Gene Vincent's "Be Bop A Lula," Bobby Parker's "Watch Your Step," Richie Barrett's "Some Other Guy," Bruce Channel's "Hey! Baby," and many others. 

"Hey! Baby":

Bruce Channel's "Hey! Baby" was a hit song recorded in 1961 and featured in Lennon's jukebox. 

Compilation Album:

"John Lennon's Jukebox" was also a 2004 compilation album featuring songs from Lennon's jukebox, including "Hey! Baby". 

Bruce Channel:

Bruce Channel was a Texas born musician, chiefly remembered for his 1962 worldwide hit "Hey! Baby"

OK, Boomer.

@TS50ER

Fat Man in the Bathtub

@rodnokken7759

Yes, I was there in 1962...so mellow, so sweet, life was pure and sweet....we should be so lucky.

@grimfreaker5970

Love this song, I'm 23 and it reminds me of my aunt, she used to live with me and she was a second mother to me. She passed away back in 2015 but this song makes me remember her memory when I came here.

@elianeramasamy1296

oh ye

@oldude979

RUP in Doo Wop heaven

@skullduggery3377

i like when stuff remembers me. on account of how good it was.

@ice9557

Remembers and remind aren’t interchangeable

@skullduggery3377

@@ice9557 - And that grammatical train wreck still garnished him 67 positive acknowledgements.

@lovettemonroe8008

After 47 yrs. of marriage my BABY is still make me feel this way when I see her walking my way.

@Strict2426

I remember our band was playing this song and I was on my brothers shoulder screaming at the top of my lungs as the seconds counted down to our first win of the season (first game and everyone had just come from a huge school pep rally) and a junior walks infront of my brother and sprays an entire bottle of baby powder on me. It was fun none the less

@thomasthedankengine123

I hope you weren't in uniform 😭

@musiccollector

One of the best songs of the 60's. Released on January 13, 1962, reaching # 1 on March 10.

@beatlefan713

11-22-63 brought me here 😂 hadn’t heard this song since I was a kid

@nobodysrobinson5375

Watching the show right now 😂

@lindakennedy4049

I'm 77 now but listening to this transports me back to when I was a teenager going to the Nightingale Cafe, Biggin Hill.

@graciedavis7432

We play this as a stand tune for band but the trumpet section says “will u be my squirrel” to piss off the band director

@genobuck9363

#Altos

@sophielabbe7196

Cm2

@metrocabinet

@@trevorbolena4202 what's that supposed to mean?

@reemsreg

Our drum line says “grill” instead of “girl”

@ianarg

Thats so funny and quirky. Band kids are so cool and quirky wow!

@stephenlevinestormchaser

I was very young when this song was played. And I LOVED it then!
I love it now, what a great mix of blues, country and rock!

@BrendaDrumm

Loved the song from day one im now 74 ❤

@wallacegarrett668

I'm 77 and can still groove to this jam - for real

@CeliaMitchell-ot5ir

Oh my goodness ,what a rich,warm, beautiful voice. The song is so respectful and sweet. Telling a girl he is so digging her without being raunchy.
Hey Baby.

@citadel9611

Absolutely love the 50's and 60's gems.
Before my time, but Awesomeness is for all ages.

@michastrzelecki1751

Znakomity utwór! Do dziś brzmi fantastycznie!

@chrismccurdy5842

Bruce does a wonderful job of singing of timeless classic song that still played and loved by a lot of people today.

@marclayne9261

Grew up listening to this classic.....

@kwabenasefa834

I was ten years old but I still remember the lyrics of this song. It was quite a hit in my part of Africa in its time.

@eddyvideostar

Kwabena Sefa: In the days of yore, eclectic music made the charts and radios in many countries -- including the U. S. where there were fewer segregated radio stations. Today it's one track for holed-up communities with no nose for musical diversity but has the souls who snigger and segregate other styles.

@salradio1675

Some songs really are timeless,this one is right up at the top!

@rollajay5301

Talk about timeless I'm reading your comment from 8 years ago 😂

@VILJL

For a song that only held the #1 position on the Billboard charts for three weeks in 1962, it’s sure had a lasting impact - pep bands and sports arenas still play it nearly 60 years later. The song was written by Channel and his acquaintance Margaret Combs when they were teenagers trying to create hits like they heard on the radio. Channel’s only other commercial success was a song called “Keep On,” which made the Top 40 in the U.K., but didn’t do much in the States.

@chrisrowe6382

When I was young, they played this song at ball games and sometimes they still do. The song lives forever,

@janetleaders4469

I heard it on Facebook and I LOVE it. I can't get enough of it,play it everyday. Makes me happy.

@osnat057

When my mom was cooking dinner for her family she was at 40' i think, she listning to the radio, and once, she heard this song and told me she dence when she was young. She was sooo happy!! Now its holiday in israel and tow years without her, just good emorys left.. Thank's for the song.

@nigelmillican5456

Played this sing in high school marching band. Brings back memories of some great times. Later played it as a Cavalier in DCI. Thanks for sharing.

@LesTwinsSociety

currently plays this in band 😊

@Slick1869

Greatest pep tune ever

@kitlitteken7835

Nigel Millican what year did u March cavaliers?

@karenwilkerson582

This song just Never Gets Old!!! Been Lovin this for more than 50 years and still love it today 3/3/21!! 😊❤️

@TheMonarchgroup

I love this song and have it in my record collection, so many happy memories.

@monkeybusinessasusuall5467

Don’t worry if they at in the marching band they will know this song well

@scottyspliffen7421

That bass line baby!! Straight grooving!!!!! Nothing like the oldies!!

@shirlo

This song came out in 1959............when I was 15 and a sophomore in high school...........still love this song.............hey baby I want to know know know if you'll be my..

@AmericanFYEChief

I'm in North Philly and this song takes me back to the back roads of Louisiana!!

@crepindidier2613

This is The Greatest 2 Minutes in Rock N Roll. Hey Baby is probably the most popular song ever played on the radio in Memphis.  It was my personal pleasure to see Bruce and Delbert do this song on Mud Island, in Memphis and in the Mississippi River, in July/August 1988.  It was a Jimmy Buffett concert, with the Neville Brothers, and Delbert McClinton.
Bruce was playing guitar for Delbert's band.  From out of nowhere Delbert started playing and then Bruce started singing and somehow everybody new it was the Real Bruce Channel.  It sounded as good as the record, except it was better cause we was drunk.  Mud Island was heard 5 miles away singing Hey Baby.  What a night - Buffet, the Neville Brothers, Delbert
and BRUCE Channel.  I played this song on a Satellite Juke Box in Panama City Beach, Florida a couple of years ago
and everybody started singing.  It was great.  Arnold High School Band, in Pananma City Beach, uses this song as its
theme song.  Art Can Go No Farther !

@flomurdock

I'm so jealous! All of that at once.

@zarnoffa

cool story bro

@riceski

Great share. God is good.

@vegetablehead

...can go no further....but it's all the same to me: if one wants to be technical, then Usage guides advise that 'farther' is for physical distance and 'further' is for figurative distance, but rules don't always stick....i'm no grammar nazi but suffer from extreme OC.

@joelwexler

That sounds great, being surprised by that. I didn't even know his name until today, though I've loved the song for 60 years!

@emilydavlin4597

This NEVER  gets old!!!  Sounds just as good today as it did when I was in the 10th grade in Fort worth... AHHS...

@mybonesfellout

I did this in the 7th grade 😐

@dannythompson4748

i listened to this in the 4 th. grade, in WACO, texas ?

@stonehand49

I was changed forever by this song!!! and my love of harmonica has kept growing since I first heard this at 12 years old. thanks

@eddyvideostar

Well said, Stone: I savor the instrumentation and arrangements of this song.

@jeffwargo1891

Can't quit tapping my feet love this song

@paulcooper8335

Memories of dancing to this song in an El Paso park with my then girlfriend in 1962 while stationed at Fort Bliss.

@Egbertwo

I love Delberts harp on this song. It sets the exact rite mood! Pure musical GENIUS!

@chriscampbell9191

The guitar sounds cool, too. And the drums -- that thump and swing. Great recording, really.

@janewoods8739

Love those oldies!!!! Just good music....plain and simple!!!

@jimperreault5531

STILL LISTENING IN 2024, GREAT MOVIE " DIRTY DANCING, R.I.P. PATRICK 🎉,

@engineeringartist4801

I always really liked this song on the morning radio while getting ready to walk to school. 1962.

@willhernandez817

Um still diggin' this jam since 1961, when I was in 5th grade. Such a smooth classic that never gets tired.

Will Hernandez NY

@67daltonknox

This song is etched into my brain from a weekend in July 1962 when the family Citroen ground to a halt with a failed wheel bearing on a trip to the British GP at Aintree and it seemed to be permanently on the radio.

@spikemiller3044

I always put music on before I go to sleep and then i had these lyrics in my head when i woke up so i had to listen to it again...Love 50s,60s music 🎶❤️

@kimberly303

Who is here because they grew up with great music lik this 😉

@FranAndrews-u1x

My favorite song on the jukebox. I grew up in a cafe/joint. We often got to pick what music went on. I love it.

@brucestaples4510

I certainly am. Howzabout you? Or are you just goofin' on us that did?🤔

@mariadejesusromero-gc5tp

Hola con mucha felicidad me refiero a estas melodias unicas no habra otras tan bellas como esta al escuchar estas melodias me transporta a otra mundo hermosa la siento en todo mi ser gracias Bruce saludos ciudad de Mexico

@acaunce8213

One Of The Best Stand Out Tracks Of The 60's. A Belting Monumental Classic. So Many Memories From Over The Years With This Supreme Stomper. Thank You Mr Channel.

@snakemansnakes1

This song was played a lot by Bob Wooler, DJ at the lunch time Cavern club sessions in Liverpool, when l was an office junior. I went every lunchtime to see the Beatles before they made it big. Everyone loved this Bruce Chanel song back then. The original and best

@feleciasparks8957

I love this song.. I play oldies like this to my kids.. ❤ let the greatest music live on

@jubbybrab

Too many band kids don’t you agree?
Some of them are called DunDun Productions and they leech a tumor off of a good comment to screw with the commenters mind lol

@contessaboggs4831

Girl i was thinking the same thing

@charleswalters6559

While driving car pool- 20+ years ago- with my grand kids, we agreed to listen to a song on XM Sirius I liked, then they could choose a song they liked. Eventually fifty/sixty music overcame 80/90 selections.

@louispacyna586

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@eddyvideostar

@@jubbybrab: This is what happens when someone like you are so sophisticated that you soil yourself with your sentiment of stultification.

@andy_travis

whoever's playing electric guitar is ABSOLUTELY KILLING IT. Also, the drummer. Man this S L A P S

@chriscampbell9191

That's what I'm hearing, too. Great guitar tone. Drums were recorded really well.

@oz1902

My sister wore the groves out on this one, playing it all night on her 16th birthday party back in November 1963. I think she may still have the single.

@johnspinup

A great cover of the DJ Ötzi 2000 classic. Bruces use of Harmonica in this cover of DJ Ötzi's "Hey Baby (uhh ahh)" is a great addition - something DJ Otzi had not thought of in the year 2000 but a great addition none the less.

@lindalee6279

still listening & still loving it.8-21-20, we don't have any of this great music in today's world.

@jennifursun3303

still one of the best Rock songs. if this don't make your feet happy you are dead

@chuckbuckbobuck

1963, a time when.think most people would agree it wasn't as crazy as it is today!

@DavidLaFerney

You just aren’t remembering it - Vietnam, civil rights, women’s liberation, JFK assassination, the Cold War, nuclear arms race - it was at least as crazy then as now. The good old days never happened. We just think they did.

@chuckbuckbobuck

@@DavidLaFerney Guess we are going to have to agree to disagree. Oh, by the way, how many school shootings were there back in 1963? How many babies born out of wedlock back then? How much dissolution in music and mannerisms as there is today. How many road rage incidents back then--only one I remember was in a movie called "Easy Rider". Oh wait, how many child mutilations were there and how the ACLU stands up for such nonsense. Can't recall there were too many children back then and if any child told their parent they wanted to be the opposite sex the parent would probably slap them and tell them to snap out it! But you are right-I guess I am simply delusional. Oh, yea and there are no assassinations in this day and age. Guess the two on Ford, one on Reagan and the recent one on Trump doesn't classify as "crazy".

@alvarofavela2918

JFK was assassinated! Hahaha yeah sure it wasn’t crazy back then hahaa

@seagreenspiral

I love this so much, reminds me of my ski holiday in Austria where they played it all the time

@Wraithislovely360

Heard the other marching band play this today and I was thrilled😊❤

@aprilkicinski2132

I'm here because I've always loved this song! It's one of my favorites 😀
& it reminds me of Dirty Dancing! RIP Patrick Swayze ❤

@youc7350

Rest in paradise swayze 👊🏻❤️

@smoothALOE

This is just a nice, simple, charming little tune. Makes me feel good 😊

@rollajay5301

Ahhhh I was laying down with my girl listening to this song so chilled

@eddyvideostar

@@rollajay5301: You were chilly?

@scottburton9701

Great song that went to # 1 in early 1962.

@lightbridge2012

graduated hi school june 63

@audreyslentz588

Bruce and I grew up together
,and went too the same church. I have the very first Hey Baby 45. He wanted too give it too my sister in church,she wouldn't take it,so I did. The. next day,he took it for the radio stations could play it. Miss Audrey

@edwiles5258

we met the Beatles in 64 at the Pigman Ranch in Alton, Mo, where they made a brief 2 day stay in September 64, as they were headed back to Britain. Four of us teens broke into the back fence of the ranch and encountered them at the swimming pool late on that Saturday afternoon. Only through Lennon's generosity were we allowed to stay. He talked and visited with us for quite some time, as he and the others (a guard among them) could see we were harmless. We talked music, as we were also a rock and roll band. He did mention Bruce as one of his favorites...i will never forget that, because I had obtained the record Hey Baby because my mom worked in a cafe and when the juke box man came every week to change records, we could get them for about 5 cents. Three of our group are still alive and we all considered this one of the events of a lifetime.

@jackthorton10

A once In a lifetime opportunity

@JoaniePerfetto

I love this song. An all time favorite in it's time. The best.

@DeutschSozialUnion

My grandfather was called up to play drums with his band in the 1960's in a concert in Dallas ,TX back then

@downhift2325

Hearing this at LSU games and the whole stadium singing gives me chills.

@10kgent68

I said so a couple of years ago. Growing up in Detroit, Dad played this all the time. Learned it by heart. But I'm hear to tell you, I thought Bruce Channel was a soul brother!

@elisabethhadley7182

Oct 2022 I went to a Football game recently and the Marana Tigers Marching Band played this. The crowd sang it loudly! Such fun that a 60 year old song can stand the test of time so well!

@edtucker4406

Delbert McClinton on harp on this song! Also the song has two different bridges...very unusual. I saw Bruce Chanel perform this song about 5 feet away at the Flora Bama Lounge on the Florida/Alabama state line in Orange Beach, Alabama, at the Frank Brown International Songwriters Festival in about 2013. Great song! Always gets the crowd going when I play it in a jam session or with a band.

@eddyvideostar

I adore the juxtaposition of the bass and guitar chords in the chorus (hook) as if something is occurring with the in-key/off-key resolve tonality.

@pieter7722

Why in the world would one dislike this lovely track!

@crockett3663

This song has been a staple of my high school pep band for generations. What's really cool is to hear TODAY'S high school kids belting out the lyrics like it's the hottest song on the radio, even though it is nearly 60 years old!!

@severinmorojr.6657

Great song from the past. Bruce Channel. I give it an 9 Great song.

@apache7074

One of my favorite all time favorites !!! I LIVE ON OLDIES MUSIC 🎶

@bcrater6400

this was the building block for so many hits down thru the years.

@Amy-hy6zn

This song was playing when I was born (my mum had a ‘hits from the movies’ cd) and every time I hear this song, or watch this scene in dirty dancing it always makes me so happy.

@_spooky_rowlet_1154

The marching band I was in, we’d always play this after a football game while marching back to the band room

@janh.1176

Here cause it was featured in movie "11.22.63" on Prime. Catchy tune 😊 I was born in 66 so can't say I remember it.

@lj2659

Band has made my high school experience magical. Thank you band <3

@brandenrounds2086

This is my marching bands go to song.

@TheMemeMachine

same!!

@marzaika

yay!! me too

@jennifursun3303

do you guys do THE HORSE too

@yoyoping88

Branden Rounds yes same here we always get excited for this song!!

@thesmiths31061

Branden Rounds Same

@stevenaragon4412

this was one of John Lennons favorite songs because of the harmonica part. I love it more now because of the girl i'm in love with now :)

@ameade20

Do you still love her 2 years later?

@stevenaragon4412

@@ameade20 things happen but sad to say, no

@jazminalmasy2279

WOW I didnt know that

@supahdupahplayahmacknumbah1

That's how it goes. You'll always have the memories tho

@wc1233

Love Me Do harmonica part came from this song

@richardking6969

Just saw him at Poodie's Roadhouse in Spicewood, Texas, along with Sonny Throckmorton, Rock Killough and Craig Dillingham. Best songwriter event I've ever been to. Tanya Tucker made a surprise visit and sang a couple of songs with these masters of their profession.

@MoosicandCritters

I popped an oldie CD in the car yesterday and this was on it. Needless to say, I BLASTED it. I love this!!!!

@rubedogg6969

Love that bass playing!

@matthewlynn7012

At my high school, as the Tuba/Sousaphone section leader(as a sophmore and same next year as junior 😎) i play part of the bass line twice through. All the while everyone is singing "heeeeyyyy... Heeyy baabby... i wanna knOOOOoooww, if youll be my girl". Everybody loves it and i couldnt be happier to be the biggest part of the biggest pep band tradition. U wouldnt believe the amount of people that befriended me just because of my role in that. Its astonishing! Like this if your school does the same.

@ajb7466

Matthew Lynn I'm the only sousaphone at my school's basketball game band, we play this and my name fits the syllables - everyone sings my name :D

@FrostedZaibatsu

+Matthew Lynn Which school?

@Regal_Two

I play contra for our school's Pep band and I love playing this song. Possibly my favorite song to play at Pep Band. That or Wipe Out by the Surfaris.

@matthewlynn7012

+icetrey92 De Soto High School (in Kansas, we have the best marching band in the state)

@matthewlynn7012

+Regal Two contra what? contra trombone? FYI the sousaphone (BTW its in the key of BBb just like a standard concert horn) is a contrabass instrument as is. so what instrument do you play?

@chriscampbell9191

Great song, great harmonica (Delbert McClinton), great guitar, great drums, thumpin' upright bass, great vocal delivery -- and John Lennon said this song inspired him to play the harmonica bit on Love Me Do. Can't beat that, now, can ya.

@Cayogator1

Been a 'Delbert Fan' since 74..........He's da Man !

@edwinmercado4802

I always thought that this cat was a brother but now that I see who sang.i was shocked any ways to me it sounds all the same anybody that could sing could really sing.. this one always a good song from the amazing 60's..👍✌..

@murrmac

I loved this song the first time I heard it on 1961, and still do so today.

The Liverpool (well, "Southport" ) band Rhythm' N' Blues Incorporated used to do a fabulous version of this back in the sixties, Peter J Kelly being the vocalist.

@josephhernandez7969

My dad accomplished a lot while on this earth may he R.I.P. I miss you Dad...😎

@tobymurphy6744

Heard this song on the radio at my grandma's retirement village. It's actually a banger

@cathyr2419

One of my favorites back in the day.!!

@julianneburns9355

This was my mum and late dad's song when they were sweethearts before getting married ❤

@panatypical

I was eleven when this song came out. It was considered a country tune, but back then those AM rock stations played any genre that they thought had promise. They were certainly right with this one! I heard this song a lot of times but I couldn't remember this dude's name.

@peopleskarmasquad1042

Still holds up after all these years

@jgowin66

With all due respect to Bruce, my favorite version of this song is done by the US Naval Academy Band, usually at the start of the fourth quarter in football games. Pretty awesome stuff !

@eddyvideostar

Dear J. Gown 66: Links, please. The original arrangements and instrumentation give it character: This is my favorite.

@magentuspriest

All rise for United States High School Marching Bands anthem

@SullyButtesPhotoJunkie

Saturday night dancing in the living room with our black Labrador back in the 80's.

@PatriciaVanZeben

MASTERPIECE 👏 💓 📻 💓 💃 ❤ 🕺

@mariaconway405

I've always loved this song