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For Your Babies
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = For Your Babies
| cover = File:ForYourBabiesSingle.jpg
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| type = single
| artist = Simply Red
| album = Stars
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| length = 4:18
| label = EastWest
| writer = Mick Hucknall
| producer =
* Michael James
* Mick Hucknall
| prev_title = Stars
| prev_year = 1991
| next_title = Thrill Me
| next_year = 1992
| misc =
}}
"'For Your Babies'" is a song by British soul and pop band Simply Red. Written by Mick Hucknall, it was included on the band's forth album, 'Stars' (1991), and reached number nine on the UK Singles Chart in February 1992. It also reached the top 20 in Ireland and the top 30 in Austria and Belgium. The track was included on the band's compilation albums, 'Greatest Hits' in 1996, 'Simply Red 25: The Greatest Hits' in 2008 and 'Songs of Love' in 2010. It was also featured on the band's acoustic album 'Simplified' in a new version.
Critical reception
Larry Flick from 'Billboard' wrote that here, Mick Hucknall "offers an unusually restrained and completely effective performance on this delicately arranged R&B gem." Randy Clark and Bryan DeVaney from 'Cashbox' noted that the song "is set at a mellow, easy-listening pace. Following in the footsteps of their previous material, they have perfectly matched the above-average production with the soft-tone vocals." Writing for CultureSonar in 2018, Ellen Fagan said that Hucknall "was never more appealing than in this ballad of a proud dad serenading his little child with loving hopes for his future during the sleepless days of early parenthood. Hucknall had his first baby decades after this was written, so his ability to conjure up such a scenario is deliciously prescient." Diane Rufer and Ron Fell from the 'Gavin Report' called it "the ultimate Mother's Day record delivered with loving sentimentality by Mr. Hucknall."
Pan-European magazine 'Music & Media' described it as a "very gentle, vulnerable pop ballad, thoughtfully arranged and featuring some fine Spanish acoustic guitar licks." A reviewer from 'Music Week' stated that "an uncluttered and pretty ballad with no hiding place, it certainly draws a fine performance from Hucknall, full of nuances and pure, clear phrasing. A smash." musicOMH declared it as a "perfect romantic ballad". 'Newcastle Journal' deemed it as a "honest ballad"."Simply a sell-out show for summer". 'Newcastle Journal'. 24 July 1992. page 42. Retrieved 31 March 2020. 'People Magazine' noted that Hucknall's singing "is still the hook in Simply Red's music, sliding gently in a pillow-soft upper register." Pop Rescue wrote that it is "a wonderfully gentle track, laden with piano, bass, and acoustic guitar", adding that the singer "takes a leisurely stroll through the lyrics." Karla Peterson from 'The Press-Courier' viewed it as "a tender tribute to parenthood in times of trouble". Johnny Dee from 'Smash Hits' called it a "soulful, smoochy track".
Music video
A music video was produced to promote the single, directed by British commercial, film and music video director Andrew Morahan.
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References
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