Sweet Baby (Stanley Clarke and George Duke song)

"Sweet Baby" is a song by American musicians George Duke and Stanley Clarke. It was released in 1981 as the first single of their collaborative debut album The Clarke/Duke Project. Reaching a peak position of No. 19 on the US Billboard Hot 100, the single remained on the chart for a total of twenty weeks. On the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, "Sweet Baby" reached No. 6. The song is also noteworthy for its use of the electric sitar. During concert performances, Duke performed the song with American singer Lynn Davis. Their version appears on Duke's concert DVD Live in Tokyo Japan 1983.

Al Jarreau and Lalah Hathaway recorded the song for 2014 tribute album My Old Friend: Celebrating George Duke.

Track listing

7", Vinyl
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Sweet Baby"	George Duke Stanley Clarke	3:46
2.	"Never Judge a Cover By Its Book"	Stanley Clarke George Duke	1:43

Charts

Chart (1981)	Peak position
US Billboard Hot 100	19
scope="row"	US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)	6

Year-end chart (1981)	Rank
US Top Pop Singles (Billboard)	78

References

Clark/Duke fusion retrieved 12 August 2021
Whitburn, Joel (2005). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942–2004. Record Research.
George Duke & Lynn Davis – Sweet Baby (Live at Shibuya Hall). YouTube. Retrieved July 23, 2019
George Duke & Lynn Davis – Sweet Baby (Live at Japan 2nd Live Aid). YouTube. Retrieved July 23, 2019
Live Tokyo Japan 1983 – George Duke. AllMusic. Retrieved July 23, 2019
"Sweet Baby by Stanley Clarke and George Duke on WhoSampled". WhoSampled. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
"George Duke Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
"George Duke Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
"Number One Awards – Billboard's 1981 Year-End Charts : Pop Singles". Billboard. Vol. 93, no. 51. December 26, 1981. p. YE-9. Retrieved April 5, 2020.

External links

Stanley Clarke/George Duke – Sweet Baby / Never Judge A Cover By Its Book at Discogs (list of releases)
Stanley Clarke & George Duke - Sweet Baby on YouTube

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Studio albums	Children of Forever (1973) Stanley Clarke (1974) Journey to Love (1975) School Days (1976) Modern Man (1978) Rocks, Pebbles and Sand (1980) Let Me Know You (1982) Time Exposure (1984) If This Bass Could Only Talk (1988) East River Drive (1993) The Rite of Strings (1995) At the Movies (1995) The Toys of Men (2007) Jazz in the Garden (2009) The Stanley Clarke Band (2010)
Live albums	Live 1976–1977 (1991)
Compilation albums	The Bass-ic Collection (1997)
Collaboration albums	Butterfly Dreams with Flora Purim (1973) Fuse One (1980) The Clarke/Duke Project with George Duke (1981) The Clarke/Duke Project II with George Duke (1983) The Manhattan Project (1989) Animal Logic with Stewart Copeland, Deborah Holland (1989) 3 with George Duke (1990) Thunder as SMV (with Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten (2008)
Related articles	List of works Animal Logic

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