Baby Baby by Amy Grant

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When producer and songwriter Keith Thomas presented Amy Grant with music to write lyrics over, her reaction to one track was: This is the catchiest thing I’ve ever heard. Thomas told her he wanted to name it “Baby Baby”, but Grant struggled with writing it as a love song: Keith wanted it to be called “Baby Baby,” and it just was not in my romantic vernacular: “Hey baby baby!” You know, I was too much the girl next door, and by then I had my daughter, Millie. I just remember bringing Millie in her car seat and setting her down on the kitchen counter and pulling up a stool right in front of her and going, “I could write this if I could sing it to you.” And I just sat there and wrote those lyrics looking at her little six-week-old face. “Baby Baby” was chosen as the lead single from her eighth album Heart In Motion after a radio station in San Diego got a leaked copy of it and had already put it into heavy rotation. In spring 1991, it hit #1 on the US Pop and A/C charts and reached the top 10 in several other countries including Canada and the UK. It was followed by four more singles from the album that all reached the top 20 in the US, making it her most commercially successful.