BABY, WON'T YOU PLEASE COME HOME
(Clarence Williams / Charles Warfield)

Bessie Smith - 1923
Clarence Williams' Blue Seven (Instr.) - 1928
Frankie Trumbauer & His Orch. - 1929
McKinney's Cotton Pickers (vocal: George Thomas) - 1930
Bill Carlsen & His Orch. - 1931
The Mills Brothers - 1932
Cab Calloway & His Orch. - 1935
Louis Armstrong & His Big Band - 1939
Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb's Band - 1939
Jimmie Lunceford & His Orch. - 1939
Jo Stafford - 1945
Nat King Cole Trio - 1945
Benny Goodman & His Orch. (vocal: Liza Morrow) - 1945
Louis Prima - 1945
Peggy Lee (Radio Transcription) - 1947
Helen Forrest (with Carmen Dragon's String Orch.) - 1950
Lee Wiley - 1950
Ray Charles - 1951
Les Paul & Mary Ford - 1955
Kay Starr - 1956
Ella Fitzggerald (Live) - 1956
Frank Sinatra - 1957
Ella Mae Morse - 1957
Julie Wilson - 1957
Juanita Hall - 1957
Jimmy Rushing - 1957
Joe Williams with Count Basie & His Orch. - 1957
Nat King Cole - 1958
Mindy Carson - 1958
Billie Holiday (with Ray Ellis & His Orch.) - 1959
Della Reese - 1959
Ricky Nelson - 1960
Brook Benton - 1960
Billy Daniels - 1960
Tito Puente - 1960
Ella Fitzgerald (Re-recording) - 1961
Ann-Margret - 1961
Helen Humes - 1961
Billie Pierce - 1961
Dinah Washington - 1962
Vic Damone - 1963
Sarah Vaughan - 1963
Dick Van Dyke - 1963
Dean Martin - 1964
Jerry Vale - 1964
Gloria Lynne - 1965
Carol Channing - 1965
Julie London - 1967
Brenda Lee - 1967
Bertice Reading - 1974
Carmen McRae (Live) - 1977
Shirley Horn - 1981
Al Martino - 1982

Also recorded by: 
Henry "Red" Allen; Andrews Sisters; Count Basie; Teresa Brewer; 
Chris Barber & Ottilie Patterson; Steve Lawrence; Big Maybelle;
Connee Boswell; Frank Stallone; Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys;
Acker Bilk; Georgia Carr; Eddie Condon; Sam Cooke; Bing Crosby; 
Miles Davis; Dorsey Brothers; Dutch Swing College; Keely Smith;
Firehouse Five Plus Two; Errol Garner; Lena Horne; Stan Kenton; 
Jane Horrocks; John Lee Hooker; The Jordanaires; Hildegard Knef; 
Pee Wee Russell; Harumi Kaneko; Gene Krupa & His Orch.; Kid Ory;  
Sidney Bechet; Ben E. King: ............. and many, many others.





As recorded by BESSIE SMITH:


I've got the blues, I feel so lonely 
I'd give the world if I could only 
Make you understand 
It truly would be grand 
I'm gonna telephone my baby 
Ask him won't you please come home 
Oh, when you gone 
I'm worried all day long

Baby, won't you please come home 
Baby, won't you please come home 
I have tried in vain 
Nevermore to call your name
When you left you broke my heart 
That will never make us part
Every hour in the day 
You will hear me say 
Baby, won't you please come home
I mean, baby, won't you please come home

Baby, won't you please come home
'Cause your mama's all alone
I have tried in vain 
Nevermore to call your name 
When you left you broke my heart 
That will never make us part
Landlord's gettin' worse
I gotta move May the first 
Baby, won't you please come home
I need money
Baby, won't you please come home


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As recorded by CAB CALLOWAY:


Baby, won't you please come home
'Cause you've left your daddy all alone
I have tried in vain
Never no more to call your name

Since you left, you broke your daddy's heart
That will never make us part
Every hour in the day
You can hear me say
Oh, baby, baby, please come on home
Come on home to your daddy, will you, darling, please

Since you left, you broke your daddy's heart
That will never make us part
Every hour in the day
You can hear me say
Oh, baby, won't you please come home to your loving daddy
Oh, baby won't you please come home












(Contributed by Mel - March 2009)