Esther Phillips - Baby, I'm For Real
Baby, baby, ooh
★ Verse ★
Baby, baby
You just don't understand
How much I love you, baby
And how much I want to be your only woman, oh baby
Baby, baby, baby, baby
You don't have to go
Stay a little while longer, baby (Stay, baby, stay)
I wanna talk to you just a little more
I see the little tears in your eyes about to fall
You are wondering if I'm for real
But if you cry, I wonder why you cry
I'll tell you no lie, this is how I feel
★ Chorus ★
Baby I'm so for real
(Yes, I'm for real, baby; yes, I'm for real)
★ Instrumental Break ★
★ Outro ★
(Yes, I'm for real, baby; yes, I'm for real)
Now if you wanna know the truth about it, boy
I just couldn't live without you
And that's why I'm confessing my love for you
So I can spend my whole life with you
Never, never, never, baby, would I let you go
(Yes, I'm for real, baby; yes, I'm for real)
Uh-uh, 'cause I love you, I love you so
Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby
(Yes, I'm for real, baby; yes, I'm for real)
Ain't gonna never, never, never let you go, no
Because I love you so much, so much, so much, baby
(Yes, I'm for real, baby; yes, I'm for real)
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Biography
At age fourteen, she won an amateur talent contest in 1949 at the Barrelhouse Club owned by Johnny Otis. Otis was so impressed he added her to his traveling revue, the California Rhythm and Blues Caravan, billed as ‘Little Esther Phillips’.
Her first hit record was “Double Crossing Blues” (#1 R&B), recorded in 1950 for Savoy Records. She had another two #1 plus four top 10 hits in 1950. Few artists, R&B or otherwise, have ever enjoyed such success in their debut year.
By the mid-50ies she was ill due to drug abuse. In 1962 Phillips got well enough to launch a comeback. She recorded a country tune, “Release Me,” with producer Bob Gans. This went to number 1 on R&B listings. Her cover of The Beatles' song “And I Love Him” nearly made the R&B Top Ten in 1965 and The Beatles flew her to the UK for her first overseas performances.
During the 1970’s she scored an international hit with “What A Difference A Day Made”. Phillips died in 1984, at the age of 48 from liver and kidney failure.