Wonderful Baby

"Wonderful Baby"
Single by Don McLean
from the album Homeless Brother
B-side"Birthday Song"
ReleasedJune 1975
GenrePop
Length2:00
LabelUnited Artists
Songwriter(s)Don McLean
Producer(s)Joel Dorn
Don McLean singles chronology
"If We Try"
(1973)
"Wonderful Baby"
(1975)
"Crying"
(1981)

"Wonderful Baby" is a song written and originally recorded by Don McLean. It is a track on his album, Homeless Brother, and a tribute to Fred Astaire. The single peaked at number ninety-three on the Billboard Hot 100 and became McLean's second and last number one on the Easy Listening chart.[1] "Wonderful Baby" also reached number one on the Canadian Adult Contemporary chart.[2]

Record World said that "Portraying heaven as a place where soaring cherubs count their digits, McLean performs a top 40 lullabye which should fly higher than any since 'Vincent.'"[3]

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 166.
  2. ^ "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 2016-10-10.
  3. ^ "Single Picks" (PDF). Record World. April 5, 1975. p. 20. Retrieved 2023-03-10.