Baby Can I Hold You

~ Recording by Tracy Chapman

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack artistRelease titleRelease artistRelease group typeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.5Baby Can I Hold You3:14Tracy ChapmanTracy ChapmanTracy ChapmanAlbum
  • US1988-04-05
Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present)60774-2, 9 60774-2
1.5Baby Can I Hold You3:14Tracy ChapmanTracy ChapmanTracy ChapmanAlbum
  • US1988-04-05
Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present)E2 60774
1.5Baby Can I Hold You3:16Tracy ChapmanTracy ChapmanTracy ChapmanAlbum
  • US1988-04-05
Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present)60774-4, 9 60774-4
1.5Baby Can I Hold You3:14Tracy ChapmanTracy ChapmanTracy ChapmanAlbum
  • XE1988-04-08
  • DE1988-04-08
Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present)960 774-2
1.5Baby Can I Hold You3:14Tracy ChapmanTracy ChapmanTracy ChapmanAlbum
Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present)9 60774-2
1.5Baby Can I Hold You3:14Tracy ChapmanTracy ChapmanTracy ChapmanAlbum
Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present)7559-60774-2
1.5Baby Can I Hold You3:14Tracy ChapmanTracy ChapmanTracy ChapmanAlbum
Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present)960 774-1, EKT 44
1.5Baby Can I Hold You3:14Tracy ChapmanTracy ChapmanTracy ChapmanAlbum
Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present)60774-1
1.5Baby Can I Hold You3:14Tracy ChapmanTracy ChapmanTracy ChapmanAlbum
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
1.5Baby Can I Hold You3:14Tracy ChapmanTracy ChapmanTracy ChapmanAlbum
Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present)960 774-1, EKT 44
1.5Baby Can I Hold You3:14Tracy ChapmanTracy ChapmanTracy ChapmanAlbum
AMIGA8 56 502
1.5Baby Can I Hold You3:14Tracy ChapmanTracy ChapmanTracy ChapmanAlbum
Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present)CD 60774
1.5Baby Can I Hold You3:14Tracy ChapmanTracy ChapmanTracy ChapmanAlbum
Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present)EKXD 26
2.5Baby Can I Hold You3:13Tracy ChapmanTelling Stories (Tour Edition)Tracy ChapmanAlbum
  • GB2000-02-14
  • XE2000-02
Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present)7559-62541-2
1.3Baby Can I Hold You3:15Tracy ChapmanCollectionTracy ChapmanAlbum + Compilation
  • XW2001-09-17
Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present)7559-62700-2
1.3Baby Can I Hold You3:15Tracy ChapmanCollectionTracy ChapmanAlbum + Compilation
Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present)EKCD 6309
1.3Baby Can I Hold You3:15Tracy ChapmanCollectionTracy ChapmanAlbum + Compilation
Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present)7559627002
1.1Baby Can I Hold You3:16Tracy ChapmanPure Genius: 40 of the World’s Greatest SongwritersVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2002-03-04
Warner Strategic Marketing United Kingdom0927450012
1.14Baby Can I Hold You3:13Tracy ChapmanWomen & Songs 6Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • CA2002-12-03
wea (has logo with just “wea” on it), Warner Strategic MarketingWTVD 48036
1.1Baby Can I Hold You3:15Tracy ChapmanSimply the Best SongwritersVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Warner Strategic Marketing0927457502
1.1Baby Can I Hold You3:14Tracy ChapmanSongs 2: The Best of the Singer/SongwritersVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Warner Strategic Marketing Benelux0927 46672-2
1.1Baby Can I Hold You3:15Tracy ChapmanSongs: The Best of the Singer SongwritersVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Warner Music Germany (don’t use this as release label!)
1.5Baby Can I Hold You3:13Tracy ChapmanTracy ChapmanTracy ChapmanAlbum
  • XW2013-11-28
Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present)
1.2Baby Can I Hold You3:12Tracy ChapmanGreatest HitsTracy ChapmanAlbum + Compilation
  • XW2015-11-20
Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present)
1.2Baby Can I Hold You3:13Tracy ChapmanGreatest Hits (2015 remaster)Tracy ChapmanAlbum + Compilation
  • XW2015-11-20
Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present), Rhino (reissue label)
1.2Baby Can I Hold You3:13Tracy ChapmanGreatest HitsTracy ChapmanAlbum + Compilation
  • US2015-11-20
Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present)R2 552595
1.2Baby Can I Hold You3:13Tracy ChapmanGreatest HitsTracy ChapmanAlbum + Compilation
Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present)8122795013
1.1Baby Can I Hold You3:13Tracy ChapmanRomantic MoodsVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Rhino (reissue label)
1.6Baby Can I Hold You3:13Tracy ChapmanRomantic SongsVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Rhino (reissue label)
1.19Baby Can I Hold You3:13Tracy ChapmanLove BalladsVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • -2019-03-01
Rhino (reissue label)
1.97Baby Can I Hold You3:13Tracy Chapman100 Greatest HeartbreakVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • -2019-03-08
Rhino (reissue label)
1.3Baby Can I Hold You3:14Tracy ChapmanCollectionTracy ChapmanAlbum + Compilation
1.2Baby Can I Hold You3:13Tracy ChapmanMillennium CollectionTracy ChapmanAlbum + Compilation
1.5Baby Can I Hold You3:14Tracy ChapmanTracy Chapman (WE 851, old Elektra logo, short cat# on disc and inlay, WME matrix)Tracy ChapmanAlbumElektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present)960 774-2
1.5Baby Can I Hold You3:14Tracy ChapmanTracy Chapman (WE 835, old Elektra logo and new cat# on disc, approx. 1994/95)Tracy ChapmanAlbumElektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present)7559-60774-2, 960 774-2
1.5Baby Can I Hold You3:14Tracy ChapmanTracy Chapman (EW 835, upper-case “MADE IN GERMANY” on disc, 1999+)Tracy ChapmanAlbumElektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present)7559-60774-2
1.5Baby Can I Hold You3:14Tracy ChapmanTracy Chapman (WE 835, newer ‘e above E’ Elektra logo on disc)Tracy ChapmanAlbumElektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present)7559-60774-2
1.5Baby Can I Hold You3:14Tracy ChapmanTracy Chapman (EW 835, mixed-case “Made in Germany” on disc)Tracy ChapmanAlbumElektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present)7559-60774-2
1.5Baby Can I Hold You3:14Tracy ChapmanTracy Chapman (WE 851, no red circle around CD rim, newer "e above E" Elektra logo on disc)Tracy ChapmanAlbumElektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present)7559-60774-2, 960 774-2
Bootleg
1.8Baby Can I Hold You3:15Tracy ChapmanGreatest HitsTracy ChapmanAlbum + Compilation
Elektra (bootlegs/counterfeit release pretending to be on Elektra)755-60774-2
1.3Baby Can I Hold You3:14Tracy ChapmanCollectionTracy ChapmanAlbum + Compilation
M Power RecordsMPR 7131
1.4Baby Can I Hold You3:13Tracy ChapmanGreatest HitsTracy ChapmanAlbum + Compilation
1.1Baby Can I Hold You3:16Tracy ChapmanGreatest HitsTracy Chapman
Elektra (all releases with “Elektra” or “Elektra Entertainment” logo, 1950 to present)
(unknown)
1.4Baby Can I Hold You3:15Tracy ChapmanCollectionTracy ChapmanAlbum + Compilation
1.1Baby Can I Hold You3:16Tracy ChapmanThe Greatest HitsTracy ChapmanAlbum + Compilation

Relationships

engineer and mixer:Kevin Smith (American DJ, producer and hip hop pioneer based in New York City.)
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)
recorded at and mixed at:Powertrax Studio in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States
sampled by:Sorry by DJ Kaos (UK hardcore DJ & producer Jon Kyriacou)
recording of:Baby Can I Hold You

Baby Can I Hold You

lyricist and composer:Tracy Chapman (American singer‐songwriter)
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)