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unusual facts about Bye Bye Baby



Ko Melina

After hearing her cover Mary Wells'sBye Bye Baby” with the Breakdowns, Long Gone John of the record label Sympathy For The Record Industry asked her to contribute to his Sympathetic Sounds of Detroit compilation and so Ko & The Knockouts were formed with Steve Nawara and Jeff Klein.


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Bye Bye Baby I Don't Want to Take a Chance

The Rayber Voices (Raynoma Liles Gordy, Brian Holland, Robert Bateman, and Sonny Sanders): background vocals ("Bye Bye Baby")

Powell St. John

Many musicians have recorded Powell’s songs, including Janis Joplin (Bye, Bye Baby), Boz Scaggs (I’ll Forever Sing), Tracy Nelson (Livin’ with the Animals), Roky Erickson (Right Track Now), Doug Sahm (You Don’t Know) & The Vietnam Veterans (Right Track Now).

She Talks to Rainbows

The album contained two late-period Ramones songs ("She Talks to Rainbows", from ¡Adios Amigos!, and "Bye Bye Baby", from Halfway to Sanity), and versions of songs by The Beach Boys, Johnny Thunders and The Ronettes.