Comin' Home Baby

"Comin' Home Baby"
Single by Mel Tormé
from the album Comin' Home Baby!
B-side"Right Now"
ReleasedOctober 1962
RecordedSeptember 13, 1962
GenreR&B, vocal jazz
Length2:40
LabelAtlantic
Songwriter(s)Bob Dorough, Ben Tucker
Mel Tormé singles chronology
"Her Face"
(1961)
"Comin' Home Baby"
(1962)
"Cast Your Fate to the Wind"
(1963)

"Comin' Home Baby" is a song originally written as an instrumental by Ben Tucker and first recorded by the Dave Bailey Quintet in 1961, and shortly thereafter by Herbie Mann. Lyrics were added by Bob Dorough, and the vocal version became a US Top 40 hit for American jazz singer Mel Tormé in 1962. The song has since been covered numerous times.