Song:Good Night Baby
Album:Do-Wah-Diddy: Words and Music by Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry
As a songwriter and producer, Ellie Greenwich is one of the all time greats of pop music. Along with her husband Jeff Barry, she wrote literally thousands of songs. And many of them were number one hits. But Ellie started out as a singer and she always wanted to have her own recording career. The Butterflys appears to be one of those attempts. Good Night Baby was their only chart hit in 1964. So Jerry Lieber & Mike Stoller started Red Bird Records in 1963. The label became a playpen for Brill Building songwriters like Ellie and Jeff to do their own thing. One of the groups on Red Bird was The Jelly Beans. They had a top ten hit in 1964 with I Wanna Love Him So Bad. There were four girls and a guy in that group. And of course the duo are producing plenty of other hits. So I guess while working in the studio, Ellie again got the itch to record herself. So though The Butterflys were strictly a studio group, it appears that Ellie Greenwich was the lead singer of Good Night Baby. It appears that Mary Thomas of The Crystals may have been involved in The Butterflys along with a couple of The Jelly Beans. They only released a handful of songs and Good Night Baby was the only song that charted. Ellie Greenwich went back to writing and producing. She would record as a solo artist later on in her career. This comp from Ace Records is a good overview of the careers of Ellie Greenwich & Jeff Barry. Here's a video for Good Night Baby by The Butterflys.
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