You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry-The Caravelles-1963

[Nickie0016]

FIVE STARS ALL THE WAY AROUND!

[zuperduperboi]

*SPLOOGE*

[Alikah1]

@zuperduperboi Couldn't agree more!

[Goldenoldies4ever]

OMG!! The Caravelles. Love this tune havent heard it in awhile

[ViceroyCDR]

Cool song. Title is so true, too!

[andy04134]

Great song and appropriate clip that accompanied it, back to days that seemed safer than today. I agree with polkadot that we have thankfully moved ahead away from segregation. THose memories of youth are great though. iwutcttm.

[pharcouff]

OK..

The Caravelles had a very distinct sound for day in music.

I met Lynne a few years back before she did the prisoner theme. It was great to see she did well in Australia. I think a ;ot of people whom weren't giving Lynne any work back then certainly ate their works. (Around early 80's)

Hope your still in land of the living Lynne..

Neil XXXX

[swampzoid]

Marvelous Song ! !

[jive4005]

too cute ;-)

[OwenScott94]

i must say that this is better than tennessee ernie fords version

[weagley49]

Royal Castle what great hamburger's and root beer soda.

[seekoober]

This little gem sounds like they'll play it over the credits of an episode of 'Mad Men'.

[batzapper888]

wow what an awakened memory...so simple but corny as it seems it is stored in memory all this time thank you for sharing

[mhdantholz]

You Don’t Have To Be A Baby To Cry

Artists: The Caravelles (peak Billboard position # 3 in 1963 )

Words and Music by Bob Merrill and Terry Shand

You don’t have to be a ba-a-aby to cry

All you need is for love to go wrong

You don’t have to be a ba-a-aby to cry

Or to lie awake the wh-o-le ni-i-ght long

When you leave me my golden rainbow disappears

And you leave me a broken heart that’s full of tears

[mhdantholz]

These ain’t rainbows in my eyes, why should I lie

You don’t have to be a ba-a-aby to cry

When you leave me my golden rainbow disappears

And you leave me a broken heart that’s full of tears

These ain’t rainbows in my eyes, why should I lie

You don’t have to be a ba-a-aby to cry

You don’t have to be a ba-a-aby to cry

You don’t have to be a ba-a-aby to cry

[mh513]

Of course 1963 was an eventful year,in both music and history.

[50Emerald]

@mh513 A-MEN!!! So many memories that, my 13th year...

[Fabuladico]

This song had been around for years before they cut it.  Tennessee Ernie Ford actually recorded it in 1956 as a country tune, but I think this version was the best.

[50Emerald]

@Fabuladico Tennessee Ernie put this gem on the B-side of his big "Sixteen Tons" hit and I don't remember it getting any airplay at all...

[wastl700]

My brother and me watching these vid just a year ago in winter 2009/2010, when he was staying here in Germany for a visit. Now in fall 2010.. winter is comin' , we will enjoy this track by The Caravelles again at the fireplace, in December 2010!!!

[dogcut]

..du behøvs ikke være en bayayayaby for at græde..... g'nat....

[nauort23]

@dogcut I don't understand Danish, but I got "bayayayaby"! lol. So, do you think Dronning Margrethe danced to this one back in the day?

[John1948TwoB]

Sweet! And I love the photo montage.

[jdollinter]

What happened, the stuff that passes for hits now is garbage ?

[Starshadow]

I loved this song. I was in junior high when this one was released. Yeah, the days I live in now are the best but nostalgia is rose colored glasses and there were a lot of parts that were wonderful. From this century I can look back and skip the parts that weren't so wonderful.

Ah, soda fountains and five-cent candy bars. Teasing hair and wearing it in a flip.

Fun times.

[morganfjp]

Voices so soft like velvet and cool like ice cream. And a great slightly skiffle groove that lifts it way above the dull country music versions of this song that abound. Wonder who the arranger was? Love it!!!

[linered]

They also did "Don't Blow Your Cool"...Awesome b-side

[peteboy1113]

now this is when i was a moovin and a groovin, soda pop. was 10 cents. oh those old days.

[whitt702]

This is my favorite version of this song, like it even better than Ernest Tubb!!!!! Fascinating harmony and nice drum beat.

[morganfjp]

Just lovely harmonies - a brilliant combination of wispy breathiness plus British cockiness - it thrilled and tickled me then and it still does. This is their best track by far.THANKS for the upload!

[FoxRunMan]

A great song - I recently heard this on Sirius radio 50s channel and was glad to find it on YouTube - too bad these ladies didn't have any other big hits.

[50Emerald]

I understand that this song is on the B-side of Tennessee Ernie Ford's "Sixteen Tons" -- that's supposedly where these two ladies picked it up...

[Century25]

When I hear this I always think also of 'Sally go 'round the Roses'

[fbenenati]

Yes, very similar sounds between these two songs. Wow, they were around the same timeframe too. - 63. I was in high school then, and loved both songs. Those were the days.

[wastl700]

Thanx for the trip to the past!!

[weagley49]

This is old stuff...GREAT

[teddyruxpin27]

I met The Caravelles at the White Rock Pavilion in Hastings! My family was on holiday and we went to see The Fol De Rols! I was too shy to go and ask them for their autographs, so my dad came with me..they were lovely and charming...this was about 1964...such an old memory...hearing this song brought it all back!

[potterslane]

We'll never be as young as this again.

[Liozeris]

potterslane

You said it ! In just eight words too.

[Looktookerthree]

On my tenth birthday (today is my 56th), I got this record and Sugarshack on 45's...and a brand new electric record player...I still have em......Thank you for posting this......

[spiffyinsb]

I had a trip back to youth hearing this on Sirius in my car. So HAPPY it is here on Youtube.

[memmies]

since there is no one prettier than the blonde on the right, I can quit looking for better :)

[recordmans1948]

1963 high school song smash lable. best times.

[darvishjo]

I have the LP for this, scrounged from some garage sale. When this song came out it used to take me somewhere far away whenever I heard it on the radio. I was in high school and if felt like it was made for me. It still does fell like that. Thanks for posting!

[Essendy7920]

these women have a wonderful voice. Wow.

[50Emerald]

Good heavens, I usd to hear this song played on the school bus radio going to grade school! I believe the song had come from the B-side of Tennesse Ernie Ford's "Sixteen Tons" hit in 1955...

[4kane]

I love the photos. Really evokes the era of the song. Thanks!

[kolgy1]

I have heard another female group do this song in occapella.I think it was by the Dolls. Im not sure,

[Freyja1133]

I didn't know that  the caravellse wee british

[mrssae1969]

andrea was my dad's cousin and has signed photos from them both

[nickellodeon55]

The song has definite country music roots. Ernest Tubb and Tennessee Ernie Ford charted with it in the '50s.

[speedviper47]

These two ladies are from England. They were secretaries who sang at lunch time and someone said they should make a record. This was a one hit wonder. They went back to work in England.

[roanoke703]

Thanks! I'd of never known that. This IS one of my favorite oldies--so smooth.

[hersheybarblues]

This one brings back childhood memories. Listened to this in Maryland on our phonograph along with other singles like "lazy hazy crazy days of summer", "i love you and don't you forget it", and "tie me kangaroo down sport."

[MisterTrimble]

I have the original UK 45 of this song on the Decca label, and until reading the comments here, I had no idea this had also been a hit in the USA!

Surprisingly, this was the only hit single by The Caravelles in the UK charts, reaching number 6 in August 1963.

[Freyja1133]

It would more like a girl groups song if there was two other caravelles..

yes,or no?

[Freyja1133]

74,this is the only pop music that i'll ever listen to

[Freyja1133]

why does the video stop playing seconds in to the clip?

[potterslane]

Beautiful

[aleccullen]

I remember seeing them oin TV, both wearing striped "matelot" tops. Lovely.

[oldtimemusiclover]

I just fell into this song while surfing for Country Music and ... wooww! - Until now I didn't know any song of these girls but this one is really great! - While beat was at its birth the early 60's brought up such fine smooth tunes which also will survive and always be well remembered - thanks for posting!

[beagle5pup]

I hear this song and I, very strangely enough, remember making Christmas cookies with my father while this song played on the living room's Hi-Fi.

My parents LOVED this quirky little song. On cold winter evenings, without a working TV, Dad would strum on his guitar and he and Mom would sing this in a two part harmony. I sat there and could see the love in their eyes for each other. Good grief, I'm getting sentimental and goofy over this.

Thanks for posting this beloved little song.

[largos33dude]

Heard this on the Steve Wright show on Radio 2 today, never heard it before, and fell in love with it. What a wonderful tune. Thanks for posting...

[AnthonysDen]

I enjoy this version better than Tennessee Ernie Ford's--and that's saying something!

[Freyja1133]

Anthony,how about Loretta lynns version?

[AnthonysDen]

Loretta Lynn did a version of this song?I was not privy to that info--fancy that!If you somehow get it on your channel,I'll gladly give it a listen.

[Freyja1133]

Yes,she did.... but,Since it was on one of her earlier lps.... I only saw the lyrics for the song...

There isn't a video for it...

[drpesky]

one of my fav uk songs i was given a very scratched album years ago

[tennforever]

Reminds me of the great times we had in the 50's. If you never lived it, you don't know the fun times we had. Today is pathetic in comparison.

[Freyja1133]

tenn,this song ws released in 1963

[tennforever]

Well OK, Freyja, 50's ealy 60's same thing. Then the world started to change...

[Freyja1133]

tenn, the world started to change after the assination of JFK

[maynardgkrebsiii]

Awesome!

[pgh45rpms]

These British girls had a U.S. Top-ten hit with this song, well-before the Beatles and other beat groups arrived on these shores. (The girls' follow-up, "Have You Ever Been Lonely", is also very nice.)

[nichiren3280]

南無妙法蓮華経　日蓮。ｇｏｏｄ

[ryanch8123]

One of the singers is my great aunt called Andrea Mullins. I have to listen to them sing this every xmas.

[zzzzz87]

lol

[mrlopez2681]

are you serious????

[toughterrier]

You are very lucky - her voice and the Caravelle's sound made cruisin the strip with putting your arm around the girl beside you a evening to remember!

[clamdraggin]

74SodaPop THANKS! Great old...OLD memories!!!

When I was 7 years old..I wanted these singers to be my girlfriends so they could sing this for me.

[7NTM61Ic]

I have always loved this one.

[murphytaz]

superb,really tugged on the memory strings that one.like many i guess,i had forgotten this one so it brought great delight.many thanks 74sodapop,great job.

[mrlopez2681]

This is a magnificent song. I have aways liked it.

[mrlopez2681]

unfortuntely this mono-ish youtube sound doesnt quite bring out the reverb, which makes the song just lovely.

[billeagle51]

This is nice! I liked the way you did this! I grew up in California back then, and it was a completely different California than it is now! Back then, in the 60's it was the golden age! Just like American Graffiti!

[wescaud]

This was recorded mid 1963,shortly after it had been recorded by Frank Ifield on the b-side to 'Nobodys Darlin But Mine' in Feb 63

[tommyggfan]

Lois Wilkinson and Andrea Simpson were co-workers in a London office and amateur singers who decided to take their tight, breathy harmony to a professional recording studio. They came up with a new arrangement for an American country song first recorded by Ernest Tubb in 1949. The girls' record was a huge hit in the UK, and made #3 in the US at the end of 1963.

[Jibbie49]

Ernest Tubb was GREAT. I saw him at the ILLINOIS State Fair when he was rather old and he still amazed the sell-out crowd. Then he was the "come-on act" and people couldn't get enough of him. I cherish having seen him at that live show.

[A1mikesmusic]

The origin of the song 'you don't have to be a baby to cry' as I seem to recall was, on the B side of Tennessee Ernie's hit '16 tons'

[tommyggfan]

Yes, it was Ernie's version that inspired them to do the song.

[tanagerbirder]

Does anyone know who they were? I think one was called Lois.

[A1mikesmusic]

This is the best I have ever heard regarding harmony, it is technically correct in every way and very pleasing to listen to, which is more to be said from the rubish around these days. Nearly every record back then were million sellers or very high in sales so the competition and quality was second to none, as these days only a fraction of these sales gets to No 1, i think that this speaks for itself in real tallent, no wonder the record industry is dying.

[slrvtnetzero]

The harmony literally MAKES this song!--Sandra-S.C.

[MagiMysteryTour]

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

(Charles Dickens)

[flamesounds]

Melody, Man.The songs of the 50's and 60's had melodies to die for. These people all learned real music from the big bands, blues, country, jazz and old time radio and tv. You had to know how music worked in those days or you didn't get work. Nowadays musician's focus is more limited, hence, less content and substance.

Those days WERE better, there were problems but not the absolute degeneracy and lowest common demoninator of today. We had a great, free, wide open cohesive nation at one time.

[slrvtnetzero]

I'm with YOU, flamesounds!---Sandra-S.C.

[polkadotbox2]

It's the memories of youth in simpler times people fondly look back on. They weren't better times overall. Many people suffered needlessly because they were disenfranchised by a biased society. Remember the "separate drinking fountains" and the "back of the bus"? The good old days weren't that good at all. Today and tomorrow will always be a better world than all those yesterdays. Yesterday we were children, and we long for the lack of responsibilities. The best of times are here and now. Peace!

[vinylsingleman]

Yes with school shootings and bombings and all those things it's a much better world today isn't it? Come on. There is no guarantee things are going to get better with time. Some things change for better, some for worse.

[74sodapop]

I see what you mean.Listen to Junior Walker's Way Back Home.He says there is good and bad.There were no lap tops or internet but the music of the past is far superior than anything in the last ten years.We should learn from the great songs of the 50's and 60's.What music.

[norfolk03]

You are so right! I love the video, and the song is fun and innocent. Works for me! Thanks!

[calihartley2010]

@74sodapop I agree, polkadotbox2 is talking sense and nonsense at the same time. We can learn a lot from the 50's and 60's and also learn not to repeat bad history. Unfortunately now a days it is the white male that is given the boot everywhere. It is the truth and I will say it.

[Khultan]

@calihartley2010 How? And when you say 'white male', which ones? Your kind make the world miserable, but humanity will be the stronger for it...Ha ha ha...

[calihartley2010]

@Khultan And I guess you are black or a white feminist. So maybe you make the world a sad place with your lesbian brand of feminism. I bet that is what your agenda is.

[andrewsbdm1]

@polkadotbox2 

[andrewsbdm1]

@polkadotbox2 this song was popular in Nov. '63 . wonderful

sound. sad time though

[snakewrithing]

@polkadotbox2

Oh Good Grief. Enjoy the song. No time was perfect.

[PaulDePace]

Amen to that comment...

[mjcamp27]

better time, place and era.........too bad its gone...