There Goes My Baby

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Written by: Benjamin Nelson, Lover Patterson, George Treadwell
Produced by: Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller
Released: May '59 on Atlantic
Charts: 19 weeks
Top spot: No. 2

The odd arrangement featured out-of-tune timpani and strings that seemed to quote, of all things, Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. "It sounded like a radio caught between two stations," wrote Atlantic's Jerry Wexler. But Ben E. King's croon soared above it all.

Appears on: The Very Best of the Drifters (Rhino)

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