RUBY BABY
“Ruby Baby” is a song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Columbia Records released a remake by Dion on a single recorded in 1962. It reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, giving him a major worldwide success and becoming the most famous version of this song. (More from Wikipedia)
Dion DiMucci was one of the leading rock and rollers of the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, and his work still sounds great to me to this day. He was the front man for Dion and the Belmonts and had several hits beginning with “I Wonder Why” in 1958.
Dion became a solo artist by 1960 and had another string of wonderful hit songs, “The Wanderer”, “Runaround Sue”, “Donna the Prima Donna”, and “Ruby Baby” among them. In the wake of the horrific political assassinations of the 1960’s, Dion later had another hit song in the summer of 1968 with the simple but highly effective song, “Abraham, Martin and John”.
(September 2012)
