If You Love Me, Baby

"If You Love Me, Baby"
Single by Tony Sheridan and The Beat Brothers
A-side	"Ain't She Sweet"
Released	29 May 1964
Recorded	24 June 1961 at Studio Rahlstedt, Hamburg, Germany
Genre	Rock
Length	2:52
Label	Polydor Records NH 52-317 (UK)
Writer(s)	Charles Singleton, Waldenese Hall

"If You Love Me, Baby" also known as "Take Out Some Insurance on Me, Baby (If You Love Me, Baby)" or on many albums simply as "Take Out Some Insurance on Me Baby" is a song written by Charles Singleton and Waldenese Hall.

Tony Sheridan and the Beatles version

It was covered by Tony Sheridan and the Beatles. It was recorded in Hamburg while the Beatles were playing at the Top Ten Club. It was produced for Polydor by Bert Kaempfert. It appeared on the album The Beatles' First (Polydor Records Ltd, UK 236.201.) which was first released in Germany in 1962 (on the album My Bonnie) and then saw re-release in England in 1967.

Release details

Singles

In 1959 Jimmy Reed released 'Take Out Some Insurance', the first notable cover of this song.

"Ain't She Sweet" / "If You Love Me, Baby (Take Out Some Insurance on Me, Baby)" — released 29 May 1964 on Polydor NH 52-317 (UK).
"Sweet Georgia Brown" / "Take Out Some Insurance on Me, Baby (If You Love Me, Baby)" — released 1 June 1964 on Atco 63102 (US).

Albums

The Beatles' First, released 4 August 1967 in the UK.
In the Beginning (Circa 1960), released 4 May 1970 in the US.
Very Together, released October 1969 in Canada.

Personnel

Tony Sheridan – lead vocals
John Lennon – rhythm guitar
Paul McCartney – bass guitar
George Harrison – lead guitar
Pete Best – drums
Karl Hinze – engineer
Bert Kaempfert – producer

External links

The Beatles singles discography

UK and US
(all labels)

1963	"Please Please Me" / "Ask Me Why" "From Me to You" / "Thank You Girl" "She Loves You" / "I'll Get You"

1964	"Can't Buy Me Love" / "You Can't Do That" "I Feel Fine" / "She's a Woman"

1965	"Ticket to Ride" / "Yes It Is" "Help!" / "I'm Down" "We Can Work It Out" / "Day Tripper"

1966	"Paperback Writer" / "Rain" "Yellow Submarine" / "Eleanor Rigby"

1967	"Penny Lane" / "Strawberry Fields Forever" "All You Need Is Love" / "Baby, You're a Rich Man" "Hello, Goodbye" / "I Am the Walrus"

1968	"Lady Madonna" / "The Inner Light" "Hey Jude" / "Revolution"

1969	"Get Back" / "Don't Let Me Down" "The Ballad of John and Yoko" / "Old Brown Shoe" "Something" / "Come Together"

1970	"Let It Be" / "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)"

1978	"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/With a Little Help from My Friends" / "A Day in the Life"

1982	"The Beatles Movie Medley" / "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You"

1995	"Free as a Bird" / "Christmas Time (Is Here Again)"

1996	"Real Love" / "Baby's in Black"

UK only
(Parlophone,
Apple)

1962	"My Bonnie" / "The Saints" "Love Me Do" / "P.S. I Love You"

1963	"I Want to Hold Your Hand" / "This Boy"

1964	"Ain't She Sweet" / "If You Love Me, Baby" "A Hard Day's Night" / "Things We Said Today"

1976	"Yesterday" / "I Should Have Known Better" "Back in the U.S.S.R." / "Twist and Shout"

US only
(Vee-Jay, Swan,
Tollie, Capitol,
Apple)

1963	"I Want to Hold Your Hand" / "I Saw Her Standing There"

1964	"Twist and Shout" / "There's a Place" "Do You Want to Know a Secret" / "Thank You Girl" "Love Me Do" / "P.S. I Love You" "Sie liebt dich" / "I'll Get You" "I'll Cry Instead" / "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You" "And I Love Her" / "If I Fell" "A Hard Day's Night" / "I Should Have Known Better" "Matchbox" / "Slow Down"

1965	"Eight Days a Week" / "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party" "Yesterday" / "Act Naturally"

1966	"Nowhere Man" / "What Goes On"

1970	"The Long and Winding Road" / "For You Blue"

1976	"Got to Get You into My Life" / "Helter Skelter" "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" / "Julia"

Other countries
(Odeon, Apple)

1964	"Komm, gib mir deine Hand" / "Sie liebt dich" (Germany)

1968	"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" / "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (Europe, Japan, Australia) "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" / "I Will" (Philippines) "Back in the U.S.S.R." / "Don't Pass Me By" (Sweden)

1969	"You're Going to Lose That Girl" / "Tell Me What You See" (Japan)

1970	"Oh! Darling" / "Here Comes the Sun" (Japan)

1972	"All Together Now" / "Hey Bulldog" (Europe)

Sources

Liner notes by Tony Sheridan for "The Beatles' First" (Polydor Records Ltd., UK 236.201)

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