| "Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley" | ||||
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| Single by Will to Power | ||||
| from the album Will to Power | ||||
| B-side | "Anti-Social" | |||
| Released | August 1988 | |||
| Genre | Freestyle[1] | |||
| Length | 4:07 | |||
| Label | Epic | |||
| Songwriter(s) | ||||
| Producer(s) | Bob Rosenberg | |||
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| "Baby I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley" by Will to Power on YouTube | ||||
"Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley (Free Baby)" is a song by American dance-pop band Will to Power. The song combines elements of two previously recorded rock songs: "Baby, I Love Your Way", a number-12 Billboard Hot 100 hit from 1976 by British-born singer Peter Frampton,[2] and "Free Bird" by American Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, which reached number 19 on the Hot 100 in 1975.[3] Suzi Carr is the female vocalist and a producer for the song.[4]
In the United States, the medley spent one week at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and also peaked at number two on Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks. Internationally, the song topped the Canadian, Norwegian, and Portuguese charts and reached the top 20 in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and West Germany. In March and April 2009, VH1 ran a countdown of the 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 80s, placing it at number 97 despite the group having another US top-10 hit in 1991 with a cover version of the 1975 10cc hit "I'm Not in Love".
- ^ Molanphy, Chris (July 16, 2022). "Point of No Return Edition". Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia (Podcast). Slate. Retrieved March 31, 2024.
- ^ "Peter Frampton Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
- ^ "Lynyrd Skynyrd Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
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