Lyr Req: 'Put your arms around me, Baby Jane'

Subject: Does anyone know this song?
From: musicmick
Date: 05 Apr 02 - 07:47 PM

About forty years ago,I heard a song and I, only, remember the chorus. It's been driving me nuts, trying to get the rest of the song. Everyone I've asked says they've never heard it. In fact, I cant get anyone to believe that it's a real song. (Believe me, if I had made it up, I would be bragging about it). Here's what I remember.

Put your arms around me, Baby Jane

Tell me that your love is still the same

I'll meet you on the corner with a five dollar bill

And I'll know how much you love me by the change.

I know the tune, but I dont know how to write out music on the computer, but it, really, does have a melody. Please, somebody, anybody, come to the rescue.

Mike

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Subject: RE: Does anyone know this song?
From: Sorcha
Date: 05 Apr 02 - 07:50 PM

I looked--no joy from here. Masato? Wolfgang?

Subject: RE: Does anyone know this song?
From: 53
Date: 05 Apr 02 - 07:58 PM

Sorry no help from here either.

Subject: RE: Does anyone know this song?
From: masato sakurai
Date: 05 Apr 02 - 08:14 PM

No luck so far with the phrases: "Baby Jane" or "Put Your Arms Around Me". Whatever happened to Baby Jane?

~Masato

Subject: RE: Does anyone know this song?
From: Big Mick
Date: 05 Apr 02 - 09:47 PM

Damn, buddy, I am scouring my rather formidable collection of lyrics books and haven't had any luck..............yet. Can you give us more of a hint? Like the genre?

Mick

Subject: RE: Does anyone know this song?
From: musicmick
Date: 06 Apr 02 - 02:15 AM

That's about all I can remember after all this time. The melody went some thing like, (in the key of C)

e e e e e e d c e

e e e e f e d c d

(d#) e e e e e e e e d c a c

c c d d d d e d c a c

At least, that's the way I remember it. I didn't dream it. I only wish I had written it.

mike

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Put your arms around me, Baby Jane'
From: GUEST,Anon
Date: 26 May 21 - 09:43 PM

It's the Ballantraes, "Baby Jane".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyf_nRF4yak

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Put your arms around me, Baby Jane'
From: pattyClink
Date: 27 May 21 - 07:28 PM

19 years til a search concluded! Is this a Mudcat record?

Subject: LYRIC ADD: Baby Jane by the Ballantraes
From: GUEST,#
Date: 01 Jun 21 - 11:56 AM

"Baby Jane" by the Ballantraes, written by B Bond

(Chorus) Come put your arms around me, Baby Jane
Come tell me that your feelings are the same
I will meet you on the corner with a five dollar bill
And I can tell how much you love me by the change

Well, it was raining hard when I woke up this morning
The sight to greet my eyes was very strange
Well, her farewell note was written with lipstick on the mirror
And simply signed 'Your Darling, Baby Jane'

(Music break)

And they found me on the sidewalk Sunday Morning
And they said that I'd been lying there for days
And they said that I just laid in that old jail house for hours
Just a-crying for my darling Baby Jane

(Chorus)

(Chorus fade)

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I was unable to find out much about either the group or the songwriter.

A big thank you to GUEST,Anon: 26 May 21 - 09:43 PM for the link to the 45 rpm, because without that I suspect the song would have drifted into obscurity.

Last, here's a hot-link to the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyf_nRF4yak

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Put your arms around me, Baby Jane'
From: GUEST,#
Date: 01 Jun 21 - 02:07 PM

The following are from

http://www.slipcue.com/music/country/countrystyles/hippiebilly/B_01.html

"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.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Put your arms around me, Baby Jane'
From: GUEST,#
Date: 01 Jun 21 - 02:14 PM

There is a more complete write-up on Bobby Bond at the following link.

https://alancackett.com/bobby-bond