Hey! Baby
The 1962 hit whose DJ Otzi cover fills Coors Field's seventh-inning stretch.
'Hey! Baby' is a song by Margaret Cobb and Bruce Channel that Channel took to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks in 1962. Austrian artist DJ Otzi's 2000 cover, 'Hey Baby (Uhh, Ahh)', has been played at Colorado Rockies home games during the seventh-inning stretch since the 2007 season, the year the club won its only pennant.
Quick Facts
- Original
- Bruce Channel (1962), US number one
- Writers
- Margaret Cobb, Bruce Channel
- Version at coors field
- DJ Otzi, 'Hey Baby (Uhh, Ahh)' (2000)
- Used by the rockies
- Seventh-inning stretch, since 2007
Facts from the source article.
Background
Channel recorded the song in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1961 with Delbert McClinton on harmonica; McClinton later gave John Lennon harmonica tips on a 1962 UK tour with the Beatles. Anne Murray had a country hit with it in 1982. DJ Otzi's version reached number one in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia and was an unofficial anthem of the 2002 World Cup.
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