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Please, Please Baby

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"Please, Please Baby"
Single by Dwight Yoakam
from the album Hillbilly Deluxe
B-side"Throughout All Time"
ReleasedNovember 2, 1987
GenreCountry
Length3:36
LabelReprise 28174
Songwriter(s)Dwight Yoakam
Producer(s)Pete Anderson
Dwight Yoakam singles chronology
"Little Ways"
(1987)
"Please, Please Baby"
(1987)
"Always Late with Your Kisses"
(1988)

"Please, Please Baby" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Dwight Yoakam. It was released in November 1987 as the third single from his album Hillbilly Deluxe. It peaked at number 6 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and number 2 on the Canadian RPM country singles chart.[1] This song was reprised by Dwight on his live album, Dwight Live and on the acoustic album dwightyoakamacoustic.net.

Content

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"Please, Please Baby" is an upbeat apologetic song after a breakup, in which this obsessive narrator who made a mistake in a relationship with his lover, pleads for his lover for her to return and he promises to try to be a better person. And he tells his lover that if she returns home he will behave appropriately.

Music video

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The live performance music video, taken from the 1995 album Dwight Live, was directed by Bud Schaetzle, and premiered in mid-1995.

Chart performance

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Chart (1987-1988) Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[2] 6
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 2

Year-end charts

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Chart (1988) Position
Canadian RPM Country Tracks[3] 29

References

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  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
  2. ^ "Dwight Yoakam Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  3. ^ "Top 100 Country Singles of '88" (PDF). RPM. December 24, 1988. p. 15.