Equals-"Baby, Come Back"

jimct wrote: ...we would hear from this group's lead singer, Eddy Grant...

According to Alan Clayson's notes in the booklet included with the 1993 CD The Very Best Of The Equals (See For Miles 374) Eddie was the lead guitarist and Dervin Gordon was the lead singer.

My promotional copy, the first release of the tune as RCA Victor 47-9186, contains the exact same matrix numbers as found on the "hit" release, so I assume, without playing, that it would match Jim's timing.

Hykker wrote: eriejwg wrote: Wikipedia states: Eddy Grant had his first number-one hit in 1968, when he was the lead guitarist and main songwriter of the multiracial group The Equals, with his self-penned song "Baby Come Back." Typical Wikipedia (in)accuracy. Don't have my Whitburn book handy, but the song was a mid-charter at best.

Well, it did hit #1 for three weeks on the British charts.

Hit #32 on the Hot 100.

Thanks for the "lead singer Dervin Gordon" update, Yah Shure. You are really helping us fill in some of these extra 60's song details, and I truly appreciate it. I have a strict, one-hour library computer time limit these days, and I am have been typing in VERY quickly of late, simply trying to post all of my new 1968 findings (I've actually finished the entire year already). To my ears, though, Eddy Grant's and Dervin Gordon's voices sound extremely similar. At the last second, I just decided to throw that quick nugget in, simply as a courtesy to younger Board members who may not have known of the Eddy Grant/Equals link.

Bringing this forward as the database entries for this track run 2:39, was that
the U.S. "Baby, Come Back" LP running time, and, does it simply fade a bit
later?