Baby It's Me

Baby It's Me
Studio album by Diana Ross
Released	September 16, 1977
Recorded	1977; Studio 55, Hollywood, California
Genre	soul/pop
Length	41:41
Label	Motown
Producer	Richard Perry
Diana Ross chronology
An Evening with Diana Ross (1977) Baby It's Me (1977) Ross (1978)
Singles from Baby It's Me
"Gettin' Ready for Love / Confide in Me" Released: October 16, 1977 "Your Love Is So Good for Me / Baby It's Me" Released: January 24, 1978 "Top of the World / Too Shy to Say" Released: February 1978 "You Got It / Too Shy to Say" Released: April 13, 1978

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Robert Christgau	C+ [2]
Rolling Stone	(Positive) [3]
Warr.org	[4]

Baby It's Me is a 1977 album released by American singer Diana Ross on the Motown label that peaked at #18 on the Billboard Top 200 and #7 on the R&B album chart. The album was produced by producer Richard Perry. The LP yielded one Top 40 hit, "Gettin' Ready for Love", reaching number 27 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Other charting singles released from the album include "You Got It" and "Your Love is so Good for Me," the latter receiving a Grammy nomination. It flew up the charts. However, though it sold rapidly and deserved a longer shelf life, a Grammy nod and strong reviews....Important to note: the sentiment amongst fans and critics was that Richard Perry guided Diana to hit status with her first solo album away from the Motown machine. Her subsequent albums, save for compilations, were recorded away from Motown.

Adult Contemporary drove the success of this album, with both "Gettin' Ready for Love" (#8)^[5] and "You Got It" (#9) being Top 10 hits, while the newly formed Billboard Dance charts ranked "Your Love is so Good For Me" Top 15. Although this album never made the UK charts it was certified Silver for UK sales in excess of 60,000 copies.^[6]

Ross would continue to work with Perry including on her pairing with international vocalist, Julio Iglesias on their duet, "All of You" several years later.

Track listing

Side A

1. "Gettin' Ready for Love" (Franne Golde, Tom Snow) - 2:45
2. "You Got It" (Linda Laurie, Jerry Ragovoy) - 3:55
3. "Baby It's Me" (Don Dunn, Charles C. Smith) - 3:09
4. "Too Shy to Say" (Stevie Wonder) - 3:15
5. "Your Love Is So Good for Me" (Ken Peterson) - 4:14

Side B

1. "Top of the World" (Tom Snow) - 3:06
2. "All Night Lover" (Jerry Ragovoy, Len Roberts) - 3:33
3. "Confide in Me" (Melissa Manchester, Stanley Schwartz) - 3:32
4. "The Same Love That Made Me Laugh" (Bill Withers) - 3:56
5. "Come In From The Rain" (Melissa Manchester, Carole Bayer Sager) - 3:50

Personnel

• Diana Ross – Vocals
• James Newton Howard – Keyboards, synthesizer
• Tom Scott – Saxophone
• Bud Shank – Flute
• David Foster – Horn
• Clydie King – Vocals
• Tom Snow – Piano
• Bobbye Hall – Percussion
• Jack Ashford – Percussion
• Ben Benay – Guitar
• Pattie Brooks – Vocals
• Ollie E. Brown – Drums
• Lenny Castro – Percussion
• Don Dunn – Guitar
• Scott Edwards – Bass
• Chuck Findley – Horn
• Bryan Garofalo – Bass
• Ed Greene – Drums
• Jim Horn – Horn
• David Hungate – Bass
• Bobby Kimball – Vocals
• Becky Lewis – Vocals
• Steve Lukather – Guitar
• Ira Newborn – Guitar, Harmonica
• Michael Omartian – Keyboards
• David Paich – Keyboards, Vocals
• Jeff Porcaro – Drums, syndrums
• Ray Parker, Jr. – Bass, Guitar
• Ken Peterson – Electric piano, Synthesizer, Clavinet
• Petsye Powell – Vocals
• Lee Ritenour – Guitar
• Stanley Schwartz – Acoustic Piano
• Rick Shlosser – Drums
• Richie Zito – Guitar
• Sherlie Matthews – Vocals
• Gene Page - string arrangements, conductor
• Del Newman - string arrangements, conductor
• Richard Hewson - string arrangement, conductor

Technical

• Howard Steele - recording and remix engineer
• David Larkham - art direction
• Victor Skrebneski - photography

Charts

Album

Singles

Sources and external links

• Allmusic.com, charts and awards album Baby It's Me, Billboard magazine.
• Discogs.com, album Baby It's Me.
• Rateyourmusic.com, album Baby It's Me.

External links

• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics