"You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry" is a 1963 single by British girl group duo The Caravelles. The single reached #3 in the Billboard Hot 100 in America, and a more modest #6 in the UK Singles Chart. The song had previously charted in the US by Ernest Tubb and Tennessee Ernie Ford.
The song was originally recorded by Moon Mullican, Ernest Tubb and Jimmy Dorsey in 1950.
"You Don't Have to Be a Baby to Cry" was also recorded by Billie Davis in 1963. Her version remained unreleased until her compilation Watcha Gonna Do? was released in 2007.
Famous quotes containing the words baby and/or cry:
“I went to the bookstore and God was not there.
Doctor Faustus was baby blue with a Knopf dog
on his spine. He was frayed and threadbare
with needing.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this—that we manufacture everything there except men.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)