Baby Can I Hold You
~ Recording by Tracy Chapman
Appears on releases
| # | Title | Length | Track artist | Release title | Release artist | Release group type | Country/Date | Label | Catalog# |
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| 1.5 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:14 | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | Album |
| Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present) | 60774-2, 9 60774-2 |
| 1.5 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:14 | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | Album |
| Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present) | E2 60774 |
| 1.5 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:16 | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | Album |
| Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present) | 60774-4, 9 60774-4 |
| 1.5 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:14 | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | Album | Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present) | 960 774-2 | |
| 1.5 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:14 | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | Album |
| Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present) | 9 60774-2 |
| 1.5 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:14 | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | Album |
| Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present) | 7559-60774-2 |
| 1.5 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:14 | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | Album | Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present) | 960 774-1, EKT 44 | |
| 1.5 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:14 | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | Album |
| Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present) | 60774-1 |
| 1.5 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:14 | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | Album |
| Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present), BMG Direct Marketing, Inc. (BMG company that owned their direct marketing company/club editions) | 9 60774-2, D 153582 |
| 1.5 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:14 | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | Album | Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present) | 960 774-1, EKT 44 | |
| 1.5 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:14 | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | Album |
| AMIGA | 8 56 502 |
| 1.5 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:14 | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | Album |
| Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present) | CD 60774 |
| 1.5 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:14 | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | Album |
| Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present) | EKXD 26 |
| 2.5 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:13 | Tracy Chapman | Telling Stories (Tour Edition) | Tracy Chapman | Album | Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present) | 7559-62541-2 | |
| 1.3 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:15 | Tracy Chapman | Collection | Tracy Chapman | Album + Compilation |
| Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present) | 7559-62700-2 |
| 1.3 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:15 | Tracy Chapman | Collection | Tracy Chapman | Album + Compilation |
| Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present) | EKCD 6309 |
| 1.3 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:15 | Tracy Chapman | Collection | Tracy Chapman | Album + Compilation |
| Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present) | 7559627002 |
| 1.1 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:16 | Tracy Chapman | Pure Genius: 40 of the World’s Greatest Songwriters | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Strategic Marketing United Kingdom | 0927450012 |
| 1.14 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:13 | Tracy Chapman | Women & Songs 6 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| wea (has logo with just “wea” on it), Warner Strategic Marketing | WTVD 48036 |
| 1.1 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:15 | Tracy Chapman | Simply the Best Songwriters | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Strategic Marketing | 0927457502 |
| 1.1 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:14 | Tracy Chapman | Songs 2: The Best of the Singer/Songwriters | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Strategic Marketing Benelux | 0927 46672-2 |
| 1.1 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:15 | Tracy Chapman | Songs: The Best of the Singer Songwriters | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Music Germany (don’t use this as release label!) | |
| 1.5 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:13 | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | Album |
| Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present) | |
| 1.2 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:12 | Tracy Chapman | Greatest Hits | Tracy Chapman | Album + Compilation |
| Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present) | |
| 1.2 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:13 | Tracy Chapman | Greatest Hits (2015 remaster) | Tracy Chapman | Album + Compilation |
| Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present), Rhino (reissue label) | |
| 1.2 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:13 | Tracy Chapman | Greatest Hits | Tracy Chapman | Album + Compilation |
| Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present) | R2 552595 |
| 1.2 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:13 | Tracy Chapman | Greatest Hits | Tracy Chapman | Album + Compilation |
| Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present) | 8122795013 |
| 1.1 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:13 | Tracy Chapman | Romantic Moods | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | |
| 1.6 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:13 | Tracy Chapman | Romantic Songs | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | |
| 1.19 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:13 | Tracy Chapman | Love Ballads | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | |
| 1.97 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:13 | Tracy Chapman | 100 Greatest Heartbreak | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | |
| 1.3 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:14 | Tracy Chapman | Collection | Tracy Chapman | Album + Compilation | |||
| 1.2 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:13 | Tracy Chapman | Millennium Collection | Tracy Chapman | Album + Compilation | |||
| 1.5 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:14 | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman (WE 851, old Elektra logo, short cat# on disc and inlay, WME matrix) | Tracy Chapman | Album |
| Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present) | 960 774-2 |
| 1.5 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:14 | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman (WE 835, old Elektra logo and new cat# on disc, approx. 1994/95) | Tracy Chapman | Album |
| Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present) | 7559-60774-2, 960 774-2 |
| 1.5 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:14 | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman (EW 835, upper-case “MADE IN GERMANY” on disc, 1999+) | Tracy Chapman | Album |
| Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present) | 7559-60774-2 |
| 1.5 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:14 | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman (WE 835, newer ‘e above E’ Elektra logo on disc) | Tracy Chapman | Album |
| Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present) | 7559-60774-2 |
| 1.5 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:14 | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman (EW 835, mixed-case “Made in Germany” on disc) | Tracy Chapman | Album | Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present) | 7559-60774-2 | |
| 1.5 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:14 | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman (WE 851, no red circle around CD rim, newer "e above E" Elektra logo on disc) | Tracy Chapman | Album |
| Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present) | 7559-60774-2, 960 774-2 |
| Bootleg | |||||||||
| 1.8 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:15 | Tracy Chapman | Greatest Hits | Tracy Chapman | Album + Compilation |
| Elektra (bootlegs/counterfeit release pretending to be on Elektra) | 755-60774-2 |
| 1.3 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:14 | Tracy Chapman | Collection | Tracy Chapman | Album + Compilation | M Power Records | MPR 7131 | |
| 1.4 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:13 | Tracy Chapman | Greatest Hits | Tracy Chapman | Album + Compilation | |||
| 1.1 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:16 | Tracy Chapman | Greatest Hits | Tracy Chapman | Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present) | |||
| (unknown) | |||||||||
| 1.4 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:15 | Tracy Chapman | Collection | Tracy Chapman | Album + Compilation | |||
| 1.1 | Baby Can I Hold You | 3:16 | Tracy Chapman | The Greatest Hits | Tracy Chapman | Album + Compilation | |||
Relationships
| engineer and mixer: | Kevin Smith (American DJ, producer and hip hop pioneer based in New York City.) |
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| producer: | David Kershenbaum |
| bass guitar: | Larry Klein |
| drums (drum set) and percussion: | Denny Fongheiser |
| electric sitar and Hammond organ: | Jack Holder |
| electric violin: | David LaFlamme |
| guitar [rhythm]: | Tracy Chapman (American singer‐songwriter) |
| keyboard: | Bob Marlette |
| vocals: | Tracy Chapman (American singer‐songwriter) |
| phonographic copyright (℗) by: | Elektra/Asylum Records (not for release label use! copyrights holder, distributor within the US) (in 1988) Elektra Entertainment (company, DO NOT USE as release label, for releases use “Elektra”) (in 2015) |
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| recorded at and mixed at: | Powertrax Studio in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States |
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| sampled by: | Sorry by DJ Kaos (UK hardcore DJ & producer Jon Kyriacou) |
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| recording of: | Baby Can I Hold You |
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Related works
Baby Can I Hold You
| lyricist and composer: | Tracy Chapman (American singer‐songwriter) |
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| publisher: | EMI Songs Ltd. Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd. (UK) Purple Rabbit Music Sony Music Publishing (Japan) Inc. (song publisher, never a release label) ヤマハミュージックエンタテインメントホールディングス (Yamaha Music Entertainment Holdings, Inc., holding company – do not use as release label) |
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