| "Baby (You've Got What It Takes)" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Dinah Washington and Brook Benton | ||||
| from the album The Two of Us | ||||
| B-side | "I Do" | |||
| Released | January 1960 | |||
| Recorded | August 1959 | |||
| Genre | R&B | |||
| Length | 2:42 | |||
| Label | Mercury Records: AMT 1083 | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Clyde Otis, Murray Stein | |||
| Producer(s) | Clyde Otis | |||
| Dinah Washington and Brook Benton singles chronology | ||||
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| Official audio | ||||
| "Baby (You've Got What It Takes)" on YouTube | ||||
"Baby (You've Got What It Takes)" is a 1950s song written by Clyde Otis and Murray Stein.
Originally titled "You've Got What It Takes", the song was first recorded by Brook Benton's sister,[1] Dorothy Pay, in 1958, as the B-side of her single "Strollin' with My Baby" on Mercury 71277.[2][3]
In August 1959, Brook Benton partnered with Dinah Washington to record the song as "Baby (You've Got What It Takes)". Their version, released in January 1960, was hugely successful on both the pop and R&B charts, reaching No.5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No.1 on the Hot R&B sides chart for ten weeks,[4] becoming one of the most successful R&B singles of the 1960s. The song was also featured on their 1960 duet album, The Two of Us.[5]
Piano was by Joe Zawinul and Belford Hendricks was the arranger and conductor.[6]
- ^ Company, Johnson Publishing (May 4, 1963). "Ebony". Johnson Publishing Company – via Google Books.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ "You've Got What It Takes", Secondhand Songs. Retrieved 12 January 2018
- ^ Singles Discography for Mercury Records - 71000 series, Global Dog Productions. Retrieved 12 January 2018
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 54.
- ^ "The Two of Us - Dinah Washington" – via www.allmusic.com.
- ^ "Mercury Records Catalog: 20500 series". www.jazzdisco.org.