Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
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Cover of the 1969 US promotional EP
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| Song by Led Zeppelin from the album Led Zeppelin | ||||||
| Released | 12 January 1969 | |||||
| Recorded | Olympic Studios, London, October 1968 | |||||
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| Length | 6:40 | |||||
| Label | Atlantic | |||||
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| Producer(s) | Jimmy Page | |||||
| ISWC | T-071.854.298-3 | |||||
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"Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" is a folk song written by Anne Bredon (then known as Anne Johannsen) in the late 1950s. It was recorded by Joan Baez (credited and became widely popular as "traditional") and released on her 1962 album Joan Baez in Concert, Part 1; and by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, who included it on their 1969 debut album Led Zeppelin.
Other interpretations of the Bredon song include versions by the Plebs (1964 Decca Records UK/MGM Records USA, credited "Traditional, arranged Dennis"),The Association in 1965 (also doing a live version in 1970), and British pop singer Mark Wynter in 1965 (credited "Janet Smith").Quicksilver Messenger Service recorded a variation of the song in 1967, which was covered by Welsh band Man on their album Maximum Darkness, recorded live at the Roundhouse on 26 May 1975. Miley Cyrus released a version that closely hewed to the Led Zeppelin version on SoundCloud in September 2014.
While a student at the University of California, Berkeley in around 1960, Anne Bredon appeared on a live folk-music radio show The Midnight Special on radio station KPFA, on which she sang "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You". A fellow folk singer who guested on The Midnight Special, Janet Smith, took up the song and developed it further, playing it live at hootenanny folk-song events at Oberlin College, one performance of which was attended by Joan Baez. Baez requested Smith to send her a tape recording of her songs, including "Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You", which Baez subsequently began performing herself. It became the opening track on Joan Baez in Concert, Part 1. Initially, the song had no writers' credit, but after Smith contacted Bredon, who confirmed her authorship, later pressings of ...In Concert gave the writing credit to Bredon. Anne Bredon and Joan Baez's rendition is in the key of B minor.
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