Anybody Seen My Baby?
| "Anybody Seen My Baby?" | ||||
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| Single by The Rolling Stones | ||||
| from the album Bridges to Babylon | ||||
| Released | September 22, 1997 | |||
| Format | CD | |||
| Recorded | March–July, 1997 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 4:31 | |||
| Label | Virgin | |||
| Writer(s) | Mick Jagger Keith Richards k.d. lang Ben Mink |
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| Producer(s) | Don Was Dust Brothers The Glimmer Twins |
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"Anybody Seen My Baby?" is a song by the English rock band The Rolling Stones featured on their 1997 album Bridges to Babylon.
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Overview
Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, the song also carries writing credits for k.d. lang and Ben Mink.[1] The song is known for its chorus, which sounds strikingly similar to lang's 1992 hit song "Constant Craving". Jagger and Richards claimed to have never heard the song before, only having discovered the similarity prior to the song's release. As Richards writes in his autobiography Life, "My daughter Angela and her friend were at Redlands and I was playing the record and they start singing this totally different song over it. They were hearing K.D. Lang's 'Constant Craving.' It was Angela and her friend that copped it."[2] The two gave Lang credit, along with her co-writer Mink, to avoid any lawsuits. Afterwards, Lang said she was "completely honored and flattered" by receiving the songwriting credit.[3][4]
"Anybody Seen My Baby?" is a typical song from the Bridges to Babylon-era Stones. It features wide-ranging inspirations, including sampling of hip-hop artist Biz Markie, making it one of the few songs by The Rolling Stones to include sampling (Bridges to Babylon is the only Rolling Stones album to include sampling). Bass and keyboards on the song is performed by Jamie Muhoberac while Waddy Wachtel performs acoustic guitar. The song has a distinctive R&B feel, driven by Muhoberac's bass. Jagger, Richards, and Wachtel perform electric guitars.
Coincidentally, "Has Anybody Seen My Baby" is reported to have been the title of a song written and recorded by Brian Jones after leaving the Rolling Stones.[5]
The song was a worldwide hit in 1997, reaching Top 20 in Europe, #1 on Canada's Singles and Rock charts and #3 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks.[citation needed] The video is perhaps best remembered for featuring Angelina Jolie.[6] She appears as a stripper who leaves mid-performance to wander New York City. "Anybody Seen My Baby?" would go on to be the only track from Bridges to Babylon to appear on the Stones' 2002 career retrospective Forty Licks.
See also
- List of RPM number-one singles of 1997 (Canada)
- List of RPM Rock/Alternative number-one singles (Canada)
References
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- ↑ Richards, Keith. Life. New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2010. p. 457.
- ↑ The Country Network - k.d. lang
- ↑ k.d. lang - Something for the Weekend 1/2 on YouTube
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ http://ultimateclassicrock.com/angelina-jolie-anybody-seen-my-baby-rolling-stones
External links
- Pages with broken file links
- Articles with unsourced statements from December 2010
- The Rolling Stones songs
- 1997 singles
- 1997 songs
- RPM Top Singles number-one singles
- Songs written by Jagger/Richards
- Song recordings produced by Don Was
- Music videos directed by Samuel Bayer
- Song recordings produced by the Glimmer Twins
- Songs written by Ben Mink
- Virgin Records singles
- Songs written by k.d. lang
