I Got You Babe
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"I Got You Babe" is a song written by Sonny Bono and first performed by American pop and entertainment duo Sonny & Cher. It was the first single taken from their 1965 debut studio album, Look at Us. It first charted on July 10th 1965, and spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1965. It sold more than one million copies and was certified gold by the RIAA. It also reached number one in the United Kingdom and Canada.
In 1968, R&B singer Etta James released a cover version, which peaked at number 69 on the Billboard singles chart for that year. In 1985, a version by British reggae-pop band UB40 featuring American singer Chrissie Hynde reached number 28 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In 1993, Cher re-recorded the song as a duet with American animated characters Beavis and Butt-head; this peaked at number 35 in the UK and became a top 10 hit in the Netherlands.
A "Dictionaraoke" version of the song by musical artist Stark Effect, combining a basic karaoke backing track with the lyrics interpreted via "audio clips from online dictionaries", was released on Stark Effect's official website in the early 2000s.[1] The song is one of a number of tracks released freely online by Stark Effect under a Creative Commons license.
On April 1st 2017, the Stark Effect "Dictionaraoke" version of the song was released in the April Fool's Day issue of Hardy Fox's Hacienda Bridge newsletter, attributed to the Residents side project Black Tar and the Cry Babies. In the newsletter, the song is said to originate from a (fictional) album by Black Tar, Season of the Witch (not to be confused with the real Black Tar EP of the same name. The song was later featured on the 2017 Black Tar compilation TAR-Nation.
History
In the early 2000s, Californian musical artist (and professor of physics) Stark Effect (aka Dr. David Dixon) released a version of "I Got You Babe" on his website as one of a number of "Dictionaraoke" cover versions of popular songs, comprised of karaoke backing tracks with the lyrics performed by "audio clips from online dictionaries".[1]
On April 1st 2017, Hardy Fox released six tracks through his digital newsletter, Hacienda Bridge, each supposedly an excerpt from an album by a mysterious Residents offshoot project, Black Tar and the Cry Babies. All six tracks were taken from the Stark Effect website and attributed to Black Tar as a joke.
Season of the Witch (from which the Stark Effect version of "I Got You Babe" was supposedly excerpted) was described in the newsletter as "a series of dramatic abstracts set against pop lyrics. It features words from songs by Donovan, Crosby, Stills, and Nash; Leslie Gore, and, long time band favourites, Ace of Base."[2]
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External links and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Dictionaraoke" at Stark Effect's official website (archived March 2nd 2004 via archive.org)
- ↑ Hardy Fox, "Goddamn The Tar Man", Hacienda Bridge newsletter, April 1st 2017