Billboard #1 Hits: #438: “Baby Come Back”- Player. January 14, 1978. #1 for 3 weeks in Billboard Hot 100.
- Single: ” Baby Come Back”- Player
- Record Company-Philips/ RSO
- Genre: Soft Rock
- Written by Peter Beckett and J.C. Crowley
- Time: 3:28
- B-side: “Love Is Where You Find It”
- Album-Player
- Grade: B
- Peaked at #1 3 weeks in Billboard Hot 100. #32 in UK Singles Chart- #1 in Canada.
Player- a band formed in Los Angeles- had a #1 hit with “Baby Come Back” which was their first single from their first album. They would have only two other Top 40 hits in their career.They released a total of four albums during their active years- late 70’s -early 80’s. This was the first new single in 1978- The Bee Gees “How Deep Is Your Love” carried over from 1977 into the first week of 1978 at the top.
Not a bad song. It was bookended by two Bee Gees songs – “How Deep Is Your Love” and “Stayin’ Alive”, which was itself followed by Andy Gibb’s “Love Is Thicker Than Water”, the Bee Gees “Night Fever” and another Bee Gees-written song “If I Can’t Have You”, sung by Yvonne Elliman. The Bee Gees ruled the charts in 1978 like the Beatles did in 1964.
I liked this song. It was years before I found out about Ron Moss.
Good song. Sounds like a cross between Hall & Oates and The Temptations.