Baby What You Want Me To Do - Elvis Presley Cover (with lyrics)

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"Baby What You Want Me to Do" (sometimes called "You Got Me Running") is a classic blues song, written and recorded by Jimmy Reed in 1959. It was a record chart hit for Reed.

Since then, it has become a blues standard, performed by most of the top R&B artists in the industry, including the matriarch of modern blues - Etta James. Deceptively simple, it has been described as “a blues piece so basically rhythmical, it seems like it has been around forever". Yet, as a mid-tempo blues shuffle, it is unlike a typical twelve-bar blues progression, with the original recording including chord substitutions in bars nine and ten.

When Elvis Presley performed "Baby What You Want Me to Do" during his 1968 Comeback Special for NBC television, music educator and author James Perone called it "particularly notable, as the concert in part served as a reminder to the audience of Presley's blues and R&B musical roots".

My vocal cover here uses the familiar Elvis Presley musical arrangement and the accompanying background slides are drawn from the comeback special video. I hope you like it!

Category: Elvis Presley

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Baby What You Want Me To Do - Elvis Presley Cover (with lyrics)

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