Cry Like a Baby

"Cry Like a Baby"
Single by The Box Tops
from the album Cry Like a Baby
B-side"The Door You Closed to Me"
ReleasedFebruary 1968 (U.S.)
Recorded1968
StudioAmerican (Memphis, Tennessee)
Length2:35
LabelMala
Songwriter(s)Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham
Producer(s)Chips Moman
The Box Tops singles chronology
"Neon Rainbow"
(1967) 		"Cry Like a Baby"
(1968) 		"Choo Choo Train"
(1968)

"Cry Like a Baby" is a 1968 song written by Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham, and performed by The Box Tops. The song reached No.2 in April 1968 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, a position it held for two weeks. It was kept out of the top spot by Bobby Goldsboro's "Honey", which stayed at No.1 for five weeks. "Cry Like a Baby" also reached No.2 on Cashbox for one week. It stayed on the Hot 100 for 15 weeks and Cashbox for 14 weeks.[1][2] It was awarded a gold disc for selling over one million copies in the United States.[3][1]

  1. ^ a b Whitburn, Joel (1997). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles. Menomonee Falls, WI: Record Research Inc. p. 64. ISBN 0-89820-122-5.
  2. ^ Hoffmann, Frank (1983). The Cash Box Singles Charts, 1950-1981. Metuchen, NJ & London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. p. 58.
  3. ^ Murrells, Joseph (1978). The Book of Golden Discs (2nd ed.). London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd. pp. 216–217 & 236. ISBN 0-214-20512-6.