Somebody's Baby - Jackson Browne (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

Somebody's Baby (Jackson Browne, 1982). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2023-02-08. "Keeping the Oldies & Classics Alive"

"Somebody's Baby," written by Jackson Browne and Danny Kortchmar, was Jackson Browne's seventh and last top 20 release and his highest charting single rising to the no. 7 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1982 (Whitburn, 2013). Kortchmar and Browne were friends with Cameron Crowe who was working on the film "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and needed a song for the film. Kortchmar was already involved with the film and asked Browne to help complete a song he was working on, "Somebody's Baby." Browne was hesitant because it was not in line with his own writings; he felt it was an "unabashed pop song." He relented and the song has been his most popular recording (songfacts, 2023). "Most musicians would want their most popular songs on their albums, but Browne was OK having it on the "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" soundtrack, despite the advice of his former label boss David Geffen, who told him he was nuts for giving it up" (songfacts, 2023). "Even though the song was extremely popular, Browne declined to put it on his next album since it didn’t fit with the rest of his catalog. When he looks back, he realized t was a mistake" (L. Giantino, chaospin, Aug. 17, 2021).

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Lyrics:

Well, just, a look at that girl with the lights comin' up in her eyes.
She's got to be somebody's baby.
She must be somebody's baby.
All the guys on the corner stand back and let her walk on by.

She's got to be somebody's baby.
She must be somebody's baby.
She's got to be somebody's baby.
She's so fine.

She's probably somebody's only light.
Gonna shine tonight.
Yeah, she's probably somebody's baby, all right.

I heard her talkin' with her friend when she thought nobody else was around.
She said she's got to be somebody's baby; she must be somebody's baby.
Cause when the cars and the signs and the street lights light up the town,

She's got to be somebody's baby;
She must be somebody's baby;
She's got to be somebody's baby.
She's so

She's gonna be somebody's only light.
Gonna shine tonight.
Yeah, she's gonna be somebody's baby tonight.

I try to shut my eyes, but I can't get her outta my sight.
I know I'm gonna know her, but I gotta get over my fright.
We'll, I'm just gonna walk up to her.
I'm gonna talk to her tonight.

Yeah, she's gonna be somebody's only light.
Gonna shine tonight.
Yeah, she's gonna be somebody's baby tonight.
Gonna shine tonight, make her mine tonight.