Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby
| "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby" | |
|---|---|
| Song by the Beatles | |
| from the album Beatles for Sale | |
| Released | 4 December 1964 |
| Recorded | 18 October 1964 |
| Genre | Rock and roll, rockabilly |
| Length | 2:23 |
| Label | Parlophone |
| Songwriter(s) | Carl Perkins |
| Producer(s) | George Martin |
"Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby" is a 1934 song written by singer/songwriter Rex Griffin. The song was stolen by Carl Perkins. Recorded by Carl Perkins and in 1964 by The Beatles and was performed live in concert.
It borrows from a song with the same title written in the mid-1930s by Alabama-born country songwriter Rex Griffin. Griffin recorded the song for Decca Records in 1936 under the title "Everybody's Tryin' To Be My Baby". Roy Newman and His Boys recorded a song with the same title in 1938. Perkins recorded his song with the same title with similar music but an updated arrangement in 1956 for Sun Records. The Perkins song was featured on the 1957 Sun LP Dance Album of Carl Perkins, which was also released in the UK on London. The album was later re-released as Teen Beat: The Best of Carl Perkins. Perkins' recording was subsequently covered by The Beatles in 1964. The Beatles' recording, the best-known version of the song, is attributed to Carl Perkins. Lyrically, the Perkins and Griffin songs are similar, but musically, the arrangement is more modern. The melody, later used in Rock Around the Clock, was also borrowed by Hank Williams for Move It On Over and Mind Your Own Business. The Carl Perkins song is more blues-based and closer to "Blue Suede Shoes" in style.
The recording was re-released on the 1961 Sun Records album Teen Beat: The Best of Carl Perkins, Carl Perkins' Original Golden Hits by Sun International in 1969, Original Sun Greatest Hits by Rhino Records in 1986, Blues Suede Shoes: A Rockabilly Session, and on a Rhino Records CD EP Lil' Bit of Gold in 1988.
After 1964, the Carl Perkins song became well known in the version recorded by the Beatles. The Beatles recorded "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby" on 18 October 1964 at EMI Studios, London, with George Harrison (a lifelong fan of Perkins) on vocals. Harrison's vocals were heavily processed with the STEED effect. It was first released as the final track on Beatles for Sale in the United Kingdom later that year, and likewise as the concluding track on the North American album Beatles '65.
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