Baby Get Higher Explained

Baby Get Higher
Cover:babygethigher1.jpg
Type:single
Artist:David Sneddon
Released:27 October 2003
Recorded:2003
Genre:Pop
Length:4:00
Label:Mercury
Prev Title:Best of Order
Prev Year:2003

Baby Get Higher is a song written by Scottish musician, singer and songwriter David Sneddon. This song written by Sneddon with Graham Stack and Mark Read was his fourth single release and it was not featured on his debut album Seven Years - Ten Weeks. The single was released on 27 October 2003 in the United Kingdom and charted at No.38 in the UK Singles Chart. The song has been covered by Dutch singer VanVelzen and as a dancing hit by Azerbaijani singer Emin Agalarov known as Emin.

Track listing

Both of the CD single releases featured the main song and a version of the music video. CD 2 contained an acoustic performance of one of his earlier releases, "Best of Order".

UK CD 1

  1. "Baby Get Higher"
  2. "Love Actually"
  3. "Follow Me (acoustic)"
  4. "Baby Get Higher (music video)"

UK CD 2

  1. "Baby Get Higher"
  2. "I'm Fine" (acoustic)
  3. "Best of Order" (acoustic)
  4. "Baby Get Higher" (directors cut video)

Covers

The song has been subject to various interpretations, notably a dance mix version by Almighty Records, an English electronic dance music record label, covers by Dutch singer VanVelzen in 2006, the Swedish singer Sven Garas in 2008 and by Azerbaijani / Russian singer Emin in 2012.

Lenny Keylard, a contestant in season 1 of the Dutch competition The Voice of Holland interpreted a reggae version of the song.

VanVelzen version

Baby Get Higher
Cover:Bay-Get-Higher-by-VanVelzen.jpg
Type:single
Artist:VanVelzen
Album:Unwind
Released:26 September 2006
Recorded:2006
Genre:Pop
Length:3:59
Label:Foreign record label
Producer:Holger Schwedt, Nando Eweg
Next Title:Burn
Next Year:2006

"Baby Get Higher" was also the debut single for Dutch singer VanVelzen,[1] reaching No. 17 on the Dutch Top 40 and making it to the Top 30 on Single Top 100.

Track list

  1. "Baby Get Higher" (3:59)
  2. "I'll Stand Tall" (4:03)

Charts

Emin version

Baby Get Higher
Cover:Baby-Get-Higher-by-Emin.jpg
Type:single
Artist:Emin
Album:After the Thunder
Released:2012
Recorded:2012
Genre:Pop
Length:3:28
Label:Saffron Music
Producer:Brian Rawling
Paul Meehan

Azerbaijani singer Emin Agalarov better known by the mononym Emin also released the song from his 2012 studio album After the Thunder. The single received BBC Radio 2 airplay.

In May 2012, Emin performed the song as one of the local [Azeri] guest artists at the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest[2] held in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Belle Lawrence Handbag Heaven Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Almighty Records. 2008-09-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20090416200845/http://www.almightyrecords.com/product/ALMYCD055. 16 April 2009. dead.
  2. Web site: www.emin-music.com/eurovision.htm . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120501135300/http://www.emin-music.com/eurovision.htm . 1 May 2012 . dmy .