My Baby's Gone (song) explained

My Baby's Gone
Type:single
Artist:Sawyer Brown
Album:Wide Open
B-Side:"Blue Denim Soul"[1]
Released:October 1, 1988
Genre:Country
Length:3:28
Label:Capitol/Curb
Producer:Ron Chancey
Prev Title:Old Photographs
Prev Year:1988
Next Title:Old Pair of Shoes
Next Year:1989

"My Baby's Gone" is a song written by Dennis Linde, and originally recorded by American country music duo The Judds for their 1984 studio album Why Not Me.

American country music band Sawyer Brown released their version in October 1988, as the first single from the studio album Wide Open. The song reached number 11 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.[2]

Content

This upbeat country ballad talks about this narrator who awakens from his bedside finds only an ice-cold pillow next to him during the hours of twilit morning. He searches to try to find his female companion that was lying next to him, and soon realizes she secretly left him for no reason. He looked out the window crying. And he is wondering why she left him, and trying to figure what he did wrong as he sits in the dark lonely bedroom.

Music Video

The music video for "My Baby's Gone" was directed by Martin Kahan begins with a woman starting the music and Mark Miller serenading to her through a microphone. It also features the Jordanaires, the video ends with the unique scene of Mark wildly stomping out every lightbulbs as he dances until room is dark.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Whitburn, Joel. Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. 2008. 369–370. 978-0-89820-177-2.
  2. Book: Whitburn, Joel . The Billboard Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 304.
  3. Web site: RPM 100 Country Singles. RPM. December 24, 1988.