"Baby I'm Yours" is a song written by Van McCoy which was a hit in 1965 for Barbara Lewis, the original recording artist and featured on her album of the same name.
The session for the track featured Teacho Wiltshire conducting his orchestra, whose personnel included Clark Terry and Dud Bascomb (trumpets), Jimmy Cleveland and Tony Studd (trombones), Frank Haywood Henry (baritone sax), Charlie Brown (tenor sax), Paul Griffin (piano), Bill Suyker (guitar), Jimmy Lewis (bass), Gary Chester (drums), and Artie Butler (percussion/ handclaps); the harmony background vocals on the track were provided by the song's composer, Van McCoy, singing with Kendra Spotswood[1] Barbara Lewis has stated that Van McCoy wrote "Baby I'm Yours" specifically for her.
The Peter and Gordon version was recorded in an Abbey Road session produced by Norman Newell and featured Big Jim Sullivan on guitar.
In deference to the US success of the Barbara Lewis version, Capitol Records, Peter and Gordon's US label, did not issue the duo's "Baby I'm Yours" single in America.
Impressed by the 1968 Tammy Wynette hit "Stand by Your Man", Miller had contacted that track's producer Billy Sherrill in the hopes of reviving her own flagging recording career.
After Look at Mine—Miller's first album in Sherrill's charge—generated two top twenty hits on the country chart in 1970 with "Look at Mine" and "If You Think I Love You Now (I've Just Started)", Sherrill opted for a new musical direction for Miller, who recalls: "He said I didn't phrase my words like a country singer, so we took some old, sexy pop songs and put in a little boppy steel guitar.
The song was issued as a single in March 1978 with "God Knows", a track from Boone's Midstream album, as its flip side.
Tanya Tucker recorded "Baby I'm Yours" for her sole Arista album release Changes, from which the song was issued as the third single in July 1983, peaking at C&W #22.
The song was not featured in the film but was selected as the lead single from the soundtrack for release in the UK and Europe after the US single release "The Shoop Shoop Song"—which as remade by Cher had played under the film's closing credits—fell short of the Billboard top thirty.
"Baby I'm Yours" failed as a single; its only apparent charting was in the UK at #89 and its estimated global sales tally is 100,000 units.