Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "\"Cry Like a Baby\" is a 1968 song written by Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham, and performed by The Box Tops. The song reached #2 in April 1968 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, a position which it held for two weeks. It was kept out of the top spot by Bobby Goldsboro's \"Honey\", which stayed at #1 for five weeks. \"Cry Like a Baby\" also reached #2 on Cashbox for one week. It stayed on the Hot 100 for 15 weeks and Cashbox for 14 weeks. It was awarded a gold disc for selling over one million copies in the United States.Spooner Oldham explained in an interview how the song came to be:\"Cry Like a Baby\" features an electric sitar, played by session guitarist Reggie Young. Spooner Oldham played keyboards on the song in addition to co-writing it. Alex Chilton, who sang lead vocals on the song, was only 17 years old at the time of recording. This version of the song also features a female backup chorus, a brass section, a string section, bass guitar, organ, piano, and drums,The original recording is available on numerous compilations, including Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1968, Classic Rock (Time-Life Music), and AM Gold (Time-Life Music)."@en }
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- Cry_Like_a_Baby abstract "\"Cry Like a Baby\" is a 1968 song written by Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham, and performed by The Box Tops. The song reached #2 in April 1968 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, a position which it held for two weeks. It was kept out of the top spot by Bobby Goldsboro's \"Honey\", which stayed at #1 for five weeks. \"Cry Like a Baby\" also reached #2 on Cashbox for one week. It stayed on the Hot 100 for 15 weeks and Cashbox for 14 weeks. It was awarded a gold disc for selling over one million copies in the United States.Spooner Oldham explained in an interview how the song came to be:\"Cry Like a Baby\" features an electric sitar, played by session guitarist Reggie Young. Spooner Oldham played keyboards on the song in addition to co-writing it. Alex Chilton, who sang lead vocals on the song, was only 17 years old at the time of recording. This version of the song also features a female backup chorus, a brass section, a string section, bass guitar, organ, piano, and drums,The original recording is available on numerous compilations, including Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1968, Classic Rock (Time-Life Music), and AM Gold (Time-Life Music).".