Lyrics were added by Bob Dorough, and the vocal version became a US Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 for American jazz singer Mel Tormé from his album Comin' Home Baby!

[1] The original musicians were Frank Haynes (tenor saxophone), Bill Hardman (trumpet), Billy Gardner (piano), Ben Tucker (bass), and Dave Bailey (drums).

fame), to write a lyric for the tune, and producer Nesuhi Ertegun persuaded singer Mel Tormé, who had recently joined the Atlantic label, to record it.

Tormé was initially reluctant to record the song, and later wrote that: "It was a minor-key blues tune with trite repetitious lyrics and an 'answer' pattern to be sung by the Cookies, a girl trio that had once worked for Ray Charles".

[8] "Comin' Home Baby" was recorded by Canadian crooner Michael Bublé, and released as the fifth and final single from his 2007 third studio album, Call Me Irresponsible.