[5][6] Working in the middle of the night and lacking paper, Bono wrote the lyrics down on a piece of shirt cardboard, a practice he would continue.

[6] The musical arrangement features a rhythmic, rolling piano-and-clavietta foundation with a tremoloed electric guitar joining late in the verses.

Lyrically, Cher sings as a poor 18-year-old girl from a broken family who is frustrated and not well-liked in the small town she's lived in all her life.

Pretty baby please don't go In the conclusion the girl resolves to remain emotionally stable when she reaches the city and says she might come back to see the boy again someday.

[8] Bono and the act's managers had to borrow and raise monies to fund the session, with the amount variously described as between $135 and $2,000 and the hocking of a typewriter and other office equipment involved.

[5][6][8] According to Cher, Leon Russell, Barney Kessel, and Don Randi (of what has since become known as The Wrecking Crew, and whom Bono knew from work with Spector at Gold Star Studios) participated in the recording at no cost.

[10] Moreover, the harmony scheme they adopted for the song – Cher singing low and Sonny doing the high part – was the opposite of the conventional male-female duo; it gave them a distinctive sound and they retained the practice on subsequent records.

[13] It did even better in Canada, where it hit number one for two weeks in October 1965[14] (replacing Sonny's "Laugh At Me", which had been released around the same time and which had also capitalized on the new-found success of the pair in several countries).

As performed by the band Annette, "Baby Don't Go" appeared on the soundtrack album for the 1986 low-budget music industry tale Lovedolls Superstar.

[26] Pitchfork describes it as showcasing "a real sense of fragility",[26] and the effort was deemed a "lovely cover of the Sonny & Cher gem" by Allmusic.