Baby I'm Yours (Maureen McGovern album)
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Baby I'm Yours was Maureen McGovern
Maureen McGovern
Maureen Therese McGovern is an American singer and Broadway actress, well known for her premier renditions of the Oscar winning songs "The Morning After" from the 1972 film The Poseidon Adventure, and "We May Never Love Like This Again" from The Towering Inferno in 1974.-Early life:McGovern was...

's eighth studio album (and her first album in three years), released in 1992
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This is a cover album of 15 songs from the years 1955 to 1970. Inside the album cover are notes that McGovern made about her youth in Youngstown, Ohio
Youngstown, Ohio
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 and specific notes on all of the selected songs on the album and how they are meaningful to her. The seventh track is a medley of two songs by the Beatles
The Beatles
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. Other songs include three songs by Burt Bacharach
Burt Bacharach
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 and Hal David
Hal David
Harold Lane "Hal" David is an American lyricist. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York. David is best known for his collaborations with composer Burt Bacharach.-Career:...

 (two of which were made popular by Dionne Warwick
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, one of her influences) and the Duprees
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' hit "You Belong to Me
You Belong to Me (1952 song)
"You Belong to Me" is a pop music ballad from the 1950s. The singer reminds his/her lover that, whatever exotic locales and sights he/she experiences, "you belong to me." It is credited to three writers: Pee Wee King, Chilton Price, and Redd Stewart...

." The front of the album cover shows McGovern with her hair dyed red and her wearing a green diamond-covered outfit.

Track listing

Album credits

  • Produced by: Ron Barron


Keyboards
  • Jeff Harris for "Are You There (With Another Girl)," "I Will," "Baby I'm Yours," "Angel on My Shoulder," "Things We Said Today/For No One," "Blue on Blue," "Anyone Who Had a Heart," and "You Can Close Your Eyes"
  • Mike Renzi for "It's All in the Game," "Sincerely," "You Belong to Me," "Gonna Get Along Without You Now," "Put Your Head on My Shoulder," "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me": Mike Renzi


Electric bass
  • Anthony Jackson for all songs except "Things We Said Today/For No One" and "Blue on Blue"
  • Mark Egan for "Things We Said Today/For No One" and "Blue on Blue"

  • Acoustic and electric guitars: Jeff Mironov
  • Drums and percussion: Allan Schwartzberg
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    Allan Schwartzberg is a famous studio musician drummer, most of whose recordings were made in the 1970s. He has played on hits such as Gloria Gaynor's "Never Can Say Goodbye". He has played with KISS, James Brown and Peter Gabriel as well...

  • Alto sax, tenor sax, soprano sax, flute: Lou Marini
    Lou Marini
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  • Synth programmer and overdubs: Jamie Lawrence
  • Electric violin on "Gonna Get Along Without You Now": Mark Feldman
  • Harmonica on "Put Your Head on My Shoulder": William Galison
  • The Clinton Chorus on "You Can Close Your Eyes": Cheryl Alexander, Megan Barron, Rob Fisher, Troy Halderson, Jeff Harris, Maureen McGovern, Susan H. Schulman
  • Vocals and background harmonies: Maureen McGovern
  • Background vocal harmonies "Blue on Blue" arranged by: Jeff Harris

  • Chief recording engineer: Ed Rak
  • Principal assistant engineer: Troy Halderson
  • Assistant engineer: Jackie Brown
  • Synthesizer programming: Jamie Lawrence
  • Synthesizer recording engineer: Danny Lawrence
  • Assistant engineers: Derrick Garrett, Joe Martin
  • Album mixed by: Ed Rak and Ron Barron
  • Music copying and contracting: Frank Zuback
  • Recorded August-October 1991, Clinton Recording Studios
  • Mastered at Sterling Sound by: Ted Jensen
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