SONG OF THE DAY
“Run, Baby, Run” by Sheryl Crow (Tuesday Night Music Club, A & M Records, 1993). Written by David Baerwald, Bill Bottrell, and Sheryl Crow.
INTERESTING FACTS (a la wikipedia)
– Tuesday Night Music Club is the debut album from American singer/songwriter Sheryl Crow, released on August 3, 1993.
– The lead single “Run, Baby, Run” was not particularly successful. However, the album gained attention after the success of the third single, “All I Wanna Do,” based on the Wyn Cooper poem “Fun” and co-written by David Baerwald, Bill Bottrell, Sheryl Crow, and Kevin Gilbert.
– The album went to #3 in the US Billboard 200 album charts, selling over 5.3 million units there as of January 2008
– It is listed as one of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
– The title of the album comes from the name for the ad hoc group of musicians including Crow, the “Tuesday Music Club”, who came together on Tuesdays to work on the album, many of them sharing songwriting credits with Crow.
The group existed as a casual songwriting collective prior to its association with Crow, but rapidly developed into a vehicle for her debut album after her arrival (she was at the time dating Kevin Gilbert, who actually co-wrote most of the songs for the TNMC album along with Crow, Baerwald, Ricketts, Bottrell, Schwartz and MacLeod).
– Her relationship with Gilbert became acrimonious soon after the album release and there were disputes about songwriting credits. Crow claimed to have written them in interviews later. Both Gilbert and Baerwald castigated Crow publicly in the fallout, although Baerwald would later soften his position. A similar tension would arise with TNMC member Bill Bottrell after her second album, over which he collaborated, at least in the early stages.
– In February 2008, Bottrell said, “The truth is hard to describe, but it lies between what all the people were shouting. It was all very vague and very complicated. She wrote the majority of the album. The guys and I contributed writing and lyrics, including some personal things. However, the sound was the sound that I developed”. However, this was said while promoting their most current work together and contradicts most previous statements by him including those in Richard Buskin’s highly detailed book about the situation. Bottrell in earlier times had said she was given the 2nd largest portion of the publishing splits on the album in order to motivate her to work hard, as she still had to pay the very large debt from her unreleasable real first record, publishing being the only way she was likely to earn any money from her new record.
– The album won Crow three Grammy Awards in 1995: Record of the Year, Best New Artist and Best Female Vocal Performance.
– “Run Baby Run” failed to chart in 1993 but it reached #92 position in the UK in 1994 and was a minor radio hit in several other countries.
– “Run Baby Run” was released again after the success of “All I Wanna Do” and “Strong Enough, and it reached #24 in the UK charts in July of 1995.