| "Baby, I Love Your Way" | ||||
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 Side A of UK vinyl single | ||||
| Single by Peter Frampton | ||||
| from the album Frampton and Frampton Comes Alive! | ||||
| B-side | "It's a Plain Shame" | |||
| Released | September 1975 June 1976 (live) | |||
| Recorded | 1975 | |||
| Studio | Ronnie Lane's Mobile Studio (Clearwell Castle, Gloucestershire) | |||
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| Label | A&M (1832) | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Peter Frampton | |||
| Producer(s) | Peter Frampton | |||
| Peter Frampton singles chronology | ||||
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| Live video | ||||
| "Baby, I Love Your Way" (live at the Royal Albert Hall, 2022) on YouTube | ||||
| "Baby, I Love Your Way" (live, 1975) on YouTube | ||||
| Official audio | ||||
| "Nassau/Baby, I Love Your Way" on YouTube | ||||
| "Baby, I Love Your Way" (from Frampton Comes Live!) on YouTube | ||||
"Baby, I Love Your Way" is a song written and performed by English singer Peter Frampton, released as a single in September 1975. It first featured on Frampton's 1975 album, Frampton, where it segues from the previous track "Nassau".
A live version of the song was later released on his 1976 multi-platinum album Frampton Comes Alive!, where it gained popularity as a hit song, peaking at number 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100.[2] It also reached number three in Canada.
Billboard described the live version as an "easy rocker" and said that the portion of the song where Frampton sings the title lyrics made "an effective hook."[3] Cash Box called it "an excellent tune" explaining that "primarily, this is an acoustic tune, and Frampton sings with sensitivity over the soft backing."[4] Record World said that although the studio single released the prior year didn't sell well, "this single is...headed for the top."[5]
In 2017, Frampton discussed this song while talking to lawmakers in Washington, D.C. about inequitable revenue payments from streaming music services like iTunes and Spotify. "For 55 million streams of 'Baby I Love Your Way', I got $1,700," said Frampton. "Their jaws dropped and they asked me to repeat that for them."[6]
- ^ Breihan, Tom (11 June 2021). "The Number Ones: Will To Power's "Baby, I Love Your Way / Freebird Medley (Free Baby)"". Stereogum. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
...Peter Frampton's "Baby, I Love Your Way" and Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird," two entries in the grand pantheon of '70s lighters-up arena-rock power ballads.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 8th Edition (Billboard Publications)
- ^ "Top Single Picks" (PDF). Billboard. 19 June 1976. p. 72. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
- ^ "CashBox Singles Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. 12 June 1976. p. 16. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
- ^ "Hits of the Week" (PDF). Record World. 12 June 1976. p. 1. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
- ^ "Ο χρήστης Peter Frampton στο Twitter: "For 55 million streams of, 'Baby I Love Your Way', I got $1,700. I went to Washington with ASCAP last year to talk to law makers about this. Their jaws dropped and they asked me to repeat that for them.… "". 16 March 2019. Archived from the original on 16 March 2019. Retrieved 22 April 2021.