Someday Baby
"Someday Baby" | ||||
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Single by Bob Dylan | ||||
from the album Modern Times | ||||
Released | August 29, 2006 | |||
Recorded | February 2006 | |||
Studio | Clinton Recording, New York City | |||
Genre | Folk rock, blues | |||
Length | 4:55 (album version), 3:07 (edit) | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Songwriter(s) | Bob Dylan | |||
Producer(s) | Bob Dylan (as Jack Frost) | |||
Bob Dylan singles chronology | ||||
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Modern Times track listing | ||||
10 tracks
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Audio sample | ||||
"Someday Baby" is a
Like much of Dylan's 21st century output, he produced the song himself under the pseudonym Jack Frost.
Composition and recording
The song is based on "
Use in commercial
The song was featured in a prominent iPod + iTunes commercial that appeared around the time Modern Times was released in early September 2006.[5] In the commercial, shots of a silhouetted Dylan performing "Someday Baby" on acoustic guitar and singing into an antique microphone are juxtaposed with shots of the silhouette of a woman dancing. Writing in Wired magazine, Andy Cush summed up the ad by stating, "Taking advantage of Mr. Zimmerman's nearly pan-cultural appeal, Apple was able to attract cool dads and their college student kids with this single statement".[6]
Other versions
An alternate version of the song, from the same
On Love and Theft and Modern Times, Bob would sometimes come in with reference tracks, old songs, saying, "I want the track to be like this." So, like, on Modern Times, there's the Muddy Waters track ["Trouble No More"] that eventually became "Someday Baby". He'd come in and present these templates and use them as reference points. The songs were pretty much written before he came in, they weren't jammed out, but it was a case of him trying to get the band to play them the way he heard it. And sometimes that meant going down all these detours, "Okay, it's not really working like this, let's try it like this".
Like on the new Bootleg Series record, there's the slow version of "Someday Baby" on there, the kind of gospel one. That was just like, he was getting kind of frustrated with the "Muddy Waters" version not coming together, and, after dinner I think, he walked back into the room and George Receli, his drummer, was tapping out that groove, and Bob sat down at the piano, and all of a sudden they came up with *that* version. We really raced to record that, I think it was only done for one or two takes. I think the vocal is pretty much untouched, maybe just one or two lines he changed later. And I think the reason he abandoned *that* version was that he was still really stuck on the Muddy Waters version. And, also, because he may have thought it sounded a little too much like Time Out of Mind.[9]
Notable covers
The song was covered by Canadian singer/songwriter
Chart performance
Chart (2006) | Peak positions[11] |
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U.S. Billboard Adult Alternative Songs
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3 |
U.S. Billboard Pop 100 | 98 |
Awards
- Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance(2007)
References
- Grammy Award. Retrieved 2007-06-28.
- ^ "Dylan | The Official Bob Dylan Site". www.bobdylan.com. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
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- ^ "Someday Baby Sheet Music | Bob Dylan | Piano, Vocal & Guitar". www.sheetmusicdirect.com. Retrieved 2021-07-03.
- ^ "Bob Dylan Someday Baby (album : Modern Times) Apple iPod+iTunes - Mars 2007 - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Archived from the original on 2021-12-18. Retrieved 2020-12-18.
- ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2021-03-01.
- ^ "The 100 Best Songs of 2008" and Dylan biographer Howard Sounes . Rolling Stone (December 25, 2008). Retrieved 2008-12-25
- ISBN 978-0802158642.
- ^ "Recording With Bob Dylan, Chris Shaw Tells All!". UNCUT. 2008-10-27. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
- ^ "Feist // Live – Rollo & Grady: Los Angeles Music Blog". Retrieved 2020-12-09.
- ^ References for chart positions:
- "Bob Dylan: Artist Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved 2007-06-28.
External links
- Lyrics at Bob Dylan's official site
- iPod commercial featuring "Someday Baby" on YouTube