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  • My Baby
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  • 1986 songs
  • 1987 singles
  • Billboard Mainstream Rock number-one singles
  • Sire Records singles
  • The Pretenders songs
  • Song recordings produced by Jimmy Iovine
  • Song recordings produced by Bob Clearmountain
  • Songs written by Chrissie Hynde
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  • %22My Baby%22 is a song written by Chrissie Hynde that was originally released on the Pretenders 1986 album Get Close. It was also released as a single in the U.S., achieving modest success on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #64. It achieved far greater success on the Mainstream Rock chart, spending two weeks at #1, following up on %22Don't Get Me Wrong,%22 an earlier single from Get Close which also reached #1 on the Mainstream Rock chart.%22My Baby%22 is a love song to Hynde's baby daughter. Vic Garbarini of Musician magazine also suggested that the song is about the baby within Hynde herself, in the sense of %22something being born%22 into a %22new life. Allmusic critic Matthew Greenwald describes the acoustic guitar melody that begins the song as sounding like an Irish folk song. He describes the rest of the melody as having a %22folk-rock groove,%22 applying a two-chord pattern that he describes as %22ingenious.%22 He describes the lyrics as Hynde expressing her %22near-overflowing affection in her literate, conversational style.%22SPIN Magazine described the song as %22gorgeous,%22 and described Hynde's lead vocal as possessing %22the goofy tenderness of someone who is too smart to walk around showing baby pictures, but who is too giddy to resist.%22 Elizabeth Wurtzel wrote in New York Magazine that, like %22Don't Get Me Wrong,%22 %22My Baby%22 %22could have sounded gushy,%22 but instead became a representation of %22a life lived hard that at least approximated some precarious version of settledness.%22 Ira Robbins and Delvin Neugebauer of Trouser Press described %22My Baby%22 as a %22sentimental love song%22 that was one of the few worthy songs on Get Close.%22My Baby%22 was included on the Pretenders' 1987 compilation album The Singles.
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  • Chrissie Hynde
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  • Jimmy Iovine
  • Bob Clearmountain
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  • Sire Records
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  • My Baby
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