My Baby Just Cares For Me
| PROFILE | |
| Composer | Walter Donaldson |
| Lyricist | Gus Kahn |
| Year Written | 1930 |
| About My Baby Just Cares For Me | |
| “My Baby Just Cares For Me” was written for the 1930 film version of Whoopee! with Eddie Cantor. Though recorded by many artists, the song is widely associated with Nina Simone, who recorded it for her 1958 debt album Little Girl Blue. | |
Lyrics
My baby don’t care for shows, my baby don’t care for clothes,
My baby just cares for me.
My baby don’t care for furs and laces,
My baby don’t care for high-toned places,
My baby don’t care for rings or other expensive things,
She’s sensible as can be.
My baby don’t care who knows it,
My baby just cares for me.
My baby’s no Brando fan, Rock Hudson is not her man,
My baby just cares for me.
My baby don’t care for Tyrone Power,
She’d rather be with me by the hour.
Jeff Chandler is not her style and Liberace’s smile
Is something she just can’t see.
I wonder what’s wrong with baby
My baby just cares for, she answers my prayers for
My baby just cares for little old me.
At least that what she’s tells me anyway.
Session / Album Information
1954
My Baby Just Cares For Me was recorded on December 22, 1954 and released in 1955 on the album Cloud 7.
This recording also released on:- 1955: Columbia LP 12″: CL 621 — Cloud 7
- 1994: Columbia House Music Collection CD: 28387 — The Great American Composers: Harry Warren
- 2004: Columbia CD: CK 85806 — Cloud 7
- 2004: Jazz CD: 5060392000 — Cloud 7
- 2007: Proper CD: PROPERBOX 121 — Young Tony
- 2008: Not Now Music CD: NOT3CD010 — Three Original Hit Albums [UK]
- 2011: Disc #9 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection (88697874602-JK9) Cloud 7