Not the Song I Mean Top Ten: Here Comes My Baby (#9)

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A friend who lives in Chicago posted that people in the upper Midwest are being advised to not talk while they're outside because the wind chill is that severe. It's "only" in the -10 to -20 range here in the "sunny south," so we're good. What's better is warming up with a great song. Here's a song title that'll make you think of one song, while I'm talking about another. #9: Here Comes My Baby YOU'RE PROBABLY THINKING: Tremeloes I MEAN: Dottie West Not all of these songs will be instances where I dislike one song and love the other. In this case, we have two terrific songs named "Here Comes My Baby." In the pop world, the jumpy, upbeat song by England's Tremeloes is the song that'll come to mind first. It's their best-remembered song, even though "Silence is Golden" was a bigger charting hit for them. "Here Comes My Baby" was written by Cat Stevens, his first success as a songwriter. It's a great song, no doubt. But, as you probably know, I wasn't raised on rock and roll. So, to me, "Here Comes My Baby" is that history-making classic that catapulted Dottie West to stardom and eventually into the Hall of Fame. Female songwriters were few and far between, and singer/songwriting women in country music? No way! But Dottie West came along and kicked that door down with this incredible, pain-filled song about a bad penny that keeps coming back. The Dottie West song was the first country music Grammy winner for a woman in history. West died from injuries in a car wreck in 1991, so she sadly never got to see the crowning achievement of her plaque hung in the Hall of Fame last October. Two very different songs in very different genres that do share one common thread: they're both good songs. Here Comes My Baby THE ONE YOU'RE PROBABLY THINKING: Written by Cat Stevens Recorded by the Tremeloes From Here Come the Tremeloes, 1967 THE ONE I MEAN: Written by Dottie West and Bill West Recorded by Dottie West From Here Comes My Baby, 1964 My arms are open wide: