RARE 1958 UK #30 BOBBY HELMS 78 " NO OTHER BABY /THE MAGIC SONG " BRUNS 05730 V+

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A REALLY EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS RARE UK BRUNSWICK 78 FROM BOBBY HELMS WRITTEN BY BRITISH SKIFFLER DICKIE BISHOP

NO OTHER BABY  

I don't want no other baby but you
I don't want no other baby but you
Ain't no other baby thrills me like you do

Lots of other women say be my guidy too
Lots of other women say be my guidy too
I don't want no other baby but you

Got a pretty mama livin' just along the hall
Got a pretty mama livin' just along the hall
Every evening she asks me to call

[ guitar ]
If you really love me then baby won't you hear my plea
If you really want me then baby won't you hear my plea
If you really love me then come on back to me

I don't want no other baby but you...

Born in Bloomington, Indiana, into a musical family, Helms began performing as a duo with his brother, Freddie, before going on to a successful solo career in country music. In 1956, Helms made his way to Nashville, Tennessee, where he signed a recording contract with Decca Records. The following year was filled with astonishing successes. Helms' first single in 1957 titled "Fraulein" went to number one on the country music chart and made it into the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Later that same year he released "My Special Angel", which also hit number one in the UK and in the US the country charts and entered the Top 10 on Billboard's pop music chart, peaking at number seven.

Released just a few days before Christmas 1957, his song "Jingle Bell Rock" was a big hit in the USA. Uniquely, it also re-emerged four out of the next five years, and sold so well that it repeated each time as a top hit, and became a Christmas classic still played to this day. It took five years for this number to become a second million seller for Helms. It reached number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent 21 weeks in the chart. The record gained gold disc status. Stories that Helms wrote and recorded the song with legendary guitar player Hank Garland seem to be apocryphal—ASCAP and Allmusic list the writers of the song as Joseph Beal, Joseph Carlton, James Ross and James Boothe.

Helms continued touring and recording for the next three decades. His pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.

Helms spent most of his later years living just outside of Martinsville, Indiana until his death from emphysema and asthma at the age of 63 in 1997.

He was portrayed by actor Brad Hawkins in the 2007 film, Crazy.

UNUSUALLY "No Other Baby" was a case where a famous US artist covers a British Song - as this was an original song from British Skiffler Dickie Bishop. The song was also covered by The Vipers Skiffle group, but the Bobby Helms version was the only one to reach the UK charts until it was covered by Sir Paul McCartney who got it into the charts again in November 1999.

B SIDE: THE MAGIC SONG

UK BRUNSWICK 05730  10" 78rpm SHELLAC

CONDITION - E-/V+  (SOME MARKS & SCUFFS BUT PLAYS GREAT!)

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