Amy Grant - "Baby Baby"

I remember hearing Rick Dees play the remix on his Weekly Top 40 when it was a hit.

I'm looking right at my (commercially purchased) CD single:

A&M Records 75021 2397 2 Amy Grant Baby Baby

1 Baby Baby 7" Heart In Motion Mix* 3:50
2 Baby Baby 12" Heart In Motion Mix* 6:02
3 Lead Me On LP Version+ 5:36

+ (From the A&M album, cassette & compact disc "Lead Me On" 75021 5199 1/4/2)

* (Original version appears on the A&M album, cassette & compact disc "Heart In Motion" 75021 5321 1/4/2)

(P) & (C) 1991/+(P) 1988 A&M Records, Inc.

* Produced and Arranged by: Keith Thomas for Yellow Elephant Music, Inc. Additional Production and Remix by Daniel Abraham for White Falcon Productions. Additional Keyboards: Peter Dow. Edited by Chep Nunez. Executive Producer for the Remixes: Mark Mazzetti. Written by Amy Grant, Keith Thomas. Published by Age to Age Music, Inc./Edward Grant Inc./Yellow Elephant Music, Inc. (ASCAP), adm. by Reunion Music Group, Inc.

Lovingly Dedicated to the memory of Chep Nunez from Amy, Daniel, and the entire A&M family. This song is dedicated to Millie, whose six-week old face was my inspiration.

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As I remember, the cassingle had the 7" mix on one side and the album mix on the other... but it's been a while and I don't know if I even still have the cassingle...

Hope this helps!

Thanks, Dave! Wish the remix of "Baby Baby" fit our format, but it was two years too late. :)

Brian W. wrote: The 7" Heart in Motion Mix was the B-side to the US cassingle. I remember reading an article in Billboard at the time that stores were furious with A&M because all of the returns they got on Amy Grant's "Heart in Motion" CD because the version that was on the album was nothing like what consumers had heard on the radio. (I also recall reading an interview with Amy Grant where she said she laughed the first time she heard the remix.)

I remember that piece in Billboard as well. They noted a lot of people went looking for Heart In Motion CD in the Dance dept rather than pop or christian. I was always surprised that A&M didn't just strip them onto later pressings. At least they acknowledged those single mixes on the 1986-2004 Greatest Hits even though the Greatest Hits that replaced it when her catalog was sold to EMI reverted to the LP versions....

Same here. The small market where I lived only ever played the LP version.

aaronk wrote: The small market where I lived only ever played the LP version.

As did the station I worked at in 1991. Of course, we had an AC format, so it made sense. ISTR Kiss 108 in Boston playing the remix.



Edited by Hykker

I seem to recall hearing the 7" Heart in Motion Mix a
lot on KUBE FM, the big Top 40 station in Seattle at the
time. (Same is true of Elton's "I Don't Wanna Go On With
You Like That" -- all KUBE ever played was the Pettibone
remix edit.)

garye wrote: Did not realize late in Amy's Top 40 phase so many versions of her songs existed!

In 2014 In Motion: The Remixes was released.   
https://youtu.be/OdSFsqpzhRw

Edited by prisdeej

WYXR(Star 104.5) always played the LP version. Did the remix really get the
lion's share of airplay?


BTW, if the remix's backbeat sounds familiar to you, it's because it's the
backing track to "Back To Life" by "Soul II Soul".

I recall hearing both the LP mix and 7" Heart in Motion Mix on the radio. Probably the single remix on the CHR station (KIIS-FM), and the LP mix on the AC stations KBIG and KOST.

I'm quite certain that I heard the 7" No Getting Over
You Mix, which is actually my preferred version.