jazz standard

Description

I've got the blues, I feel so lonely I'll give the world if I could only Make you understand It surely would be grand I'm gonna telephone my baby Ask him won't you please come home 'Cause when you're gone, I'm worried all day long Baby won't you please come home Baby won't you please come home I have tried in vain Ever more to call your name When you left you broke my heart That will never make us part Every hour in the day You will hear me say Baby won't you please come home, I mean Baby won't you please come home Baby won't you please come home 'Cause your mama's all alone I have tried in vain Never more to call your name When you left you broke my heart That will never make us part Landlord gettin' worse, I've got to move May the first Baby won't you please come home, I need money Baby won't you please come home Baby Please Won´t You Please Come Home is a blues song from the album "Seven Steps to Heaven" (1963), written by Charles Warfield and Clarence Williams. This blues song written was written by Charles Warfield and Clarence Williams in 1919. The song's authorship is disputed; Warfield claims that he was the sole composer of the song. The song has been covered by a large number of musicians and has become a jazz standard. The first hit version was Bessie Smith's 1923 recording, which stayed on four weeks on the charts peaking. Some Covers: Louis Armstrong (1939); Count Basie Orchestra (1944); Sidney Bechet (1949); Ray Charles (1952); Sam Cooke (1962); Miles Davis (1963); Ella Fitzgerald on her 1961 Verve release Ella in Hollywood; Benny Goodman and His Orchestra (1945); Lionel Hampton (1938); Al Hirt on his 1962 album; Billie Holiday (1959); Julie London (1967), Dean Martin (1964), The Mills Brothers (1932); Ricky Nelson (1960); Albert Nicholas(1955) ; Della Reese (1960), Django Reinhardt (1937); Frank Sinatra (1957); Bessie Smith (1923); Jo Stafford with the Nat King Cole Trio (1946); Jack Teagardenwith Jackie Coon (1954); George Thomas with McKinney's Cotton Pickers (1930); Sarah Vaughan (1962); Clarence Williams' Blue Five (1927); Elisabeth Bougerol (2011).