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Somethin' 'Bout You Baby I Like (album)

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Somethin' 'Bout You Baby I Like
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 1980
Recorded1980
Studio
  • Sound Lab (Hollywood)
  • Capitol (Hollywood)
GenrePop
LabelCapitol
ProducerGary Klein
Glen Campbell chronology
Highwayman
(1979)
Somethin' 'Bout You Baby I Like
(1980)
It's the World Gone Crazy
(1981)

Somethin' 'Bout You Baby I Like is the thirty-sixth album by American singer/guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1980.

The title track, first recorded by Tom Jones in 1974, became a hit on three U.S. charts for Campbell in June 1980, recorded as a duet with Rita Coolidge.

Track listing

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Side 1:

  1. "Somethin' 'Bout You Baby I Like" (Richard Supa) – 2:45 - duet with Rita Coolidge
  2. "Through My Eyes" (T. J. Kuenster) – 3:42
  3. "That Kind" (Neil Diamond, Carole Bayer Sager) – 3:13
  4. "Part Time Love" (David Gates) – 2:33
  5. "Hollywood Smiles" (Larry Weiss) – 3:17

Side 2:

  1. "If This Is Love" (Kerry Chater, Robbie Patton) – 4:01
  2. "Hooked On Love" (Ian Gomm) – 2:06
  3. "Show Me You Love Me" (Micheal Smotherman) – 3:08 - duet with Rita Coolidge
  4. "Late Night Confession" (Gary Portnoy, Jay Davidson) – 3:35
  5. "It Goes Like It Goes" (David Shire, Norman Gimbel) – 3:40

Personnel

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  • Glen Campbell – vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, backing vocals
  • Steve Turner – drums
  • Neil Stubenhaus – bass guitar
  • Dean Parks – acoustic guitars and electric guitars
  • Jai Winding – keyboards, clavinet, organ, electric piano
  • Jeff Baxter – electric guitars; vocoder on "That Kind"; pedal steel guitar on "Show Me You Love Me"; organ on "Hooked On Love"
  • T.J. Kuenster – acoustic piano on "Show Me You Love Me" and "It Goes Like It Goes"
  • Catherine Gotthoffer – harp on "Through My Eyes", "Part Time Love" and "If This Is Love"
  • Alan Estes - percussion on "Hollywood Smiles"
  • Nick DeCaro - vocoder on "If This Is Love"
  • Tanya Tucker - backing vocals on "Hollywood Smiles" and "If This Is Love"
  • Tom Saviano, Dick Hyde, David Boruff, Steve Madaio, Pete Christlieb, Warren Luening, Vincent DeRosa, Art Maebe, Lew McCreary, Lloyd Ulyate - horns
  • Tom Saviano, Nick DeCaro, Lee Holdridge - arrangements
  • Harry Bluestone, Sid Sharp - concertmaster

Production

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  • Gary Klein - producer
  • Charles Koppelman - executive producer
  • Frank DeCaro - musical contractor
  • John Arrias - recording, mixing
  • Sheridan Eldridge - recording
  • Roy Kohara - art direction
  • Jim McCrary - photography

Charts

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SinglesBillboard (United States)

Year Single Hot Country
Singles
Hot 100 Adult
Contemporary
1980 "Somethin' 'Bout You Baby I Like" (w/ Rita Coolidge) 60 42 39
1980 "Hollywood Smiles" 80

References

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  • "Pick of the new records". New Straits Times. August 31, 1980. p. 21. Retrieved January 15, 2010.
  • Breckenridge, D.P. (September 30, 1980). "Glen Campbell's touch and voice is still sure, clear". Kansas City Star.
  • Coppage, Noel (September 1980). "Popular Discs and Tapes". Stereo Review. 45: 88. Retrieved January 7, 2010.
  • "Tom Jones - Somethin' 'Bout You Baby I Like". Discogs.