"Baby Won't You Please Come Home," written by Clarence Williams and Charles Warfield (although Warfield supposedly claims to have written it alone), performed by Bessie Smith (and others, like Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington and Cab Calloway and His Orchestra)
Written in 1919; recorded and popularized by Smith in 1923
2:58 in length
You've got to love how the singer pivots, in the last few lines, from longing for a lost lover to the more practical concern at hand. "I need money" indeed. I love the mixed sincerity (I think!) and calculation in this.
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