"Bobby Bond "On The Country Side" (Time Records, 1964) (LP)
Originally from Grand Rapids, Michigan, songwriter Bobby Bond headed for Nashville in the early 1960s, after trying to make it as a rock/pop musician on the West Coast. Like many talented pickers, he found Music City pretty tough and worked odd jobs while trying to get his foot in the door. Also, like many others before him, he found work as a sound-alike artist, recording for the kind of cheapo labels that knocked off albums full of cover songs and hits of the day, the original artist's name emblazoned on the cover, while the actual performers (like Bond) were lucky if their names appeared in print anywhere. Bond was one of the lucky ones, getting his own name on the labels, and eventually after several years of this kind of work he came to the attention of country-folk crooner George Hamilton IV, who recorded several of Bond's original compositions, starting in 1968 with the song, "Back To Denver," followed by several others. His biggest success came with the song "Six White Horses," which several artists took into the charts, and though Bond got the chance to record for a few "real" record labels -- Warner Brothers and Hickory -- he never was able to make more than a few minor ripples on the charts. (In 1972, his cover version of "You Don't Mess Around With Jim" peaked at #66 in Billboard, and was his lone entry on the charts as a performer...)"
"Bobby Bond "...Sings Hits Made Famous By Roger Miller And Other Country Songs" (Somerset Records, 1965) (LP)
I have to confess, I have a strange fascination with the "sound-alike" artists who recorded entire albums of knockoff imitations of popular hits for shady labels such as Crown, Spin-O-Rama, Somerset and others. Bobby Bond was one of these sound-alike artists, who did, um "tribute" records to Roger Miller and Jim Reeves, but who also scored a minor hit with a 1972 cover of Jim Croce's "You Don't Mess Around With Jim." The sound-alike albums are a real historical curio: often they were packaged in such a way to make you think that the original artist and the real versions were included on the album, and there was an obvious attempt to bilk folks out of their hard-earned cash. Someday I'd love to research them (although I suspect someone already has...) Anyway, here are Mr. Bond's contributions to the genre..."
Please note that there is no mention of the song, "Baby Jane", but I'm pretty sure that B. Bond credited on the 45 is Bobby Bond.