Baby Babble 2 First Words: P B M

Hook-laden tunes transformed Salisbury, Wiltshire, England-based quintet Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich into one the United Kingdom's top pop bands of the mid-'60s. Performing songs by their managers Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley, the group scored with such Top Ten U.K. hits as "Hold Tight," "Hideaway," "Bend It," "Save Me," "Okay," "Zabadak," "Last Night in Soho," and the chart-topper, "Legend of Xanadu." Formed as Dave Dee & the Bostons, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich were led by vocalist Dee (born: David Harman), an ex-policeman who had been at the scene of the automobile accident that took the life of American rocker Eddie Cochran and injured Gene Vincent in April 1960. Dee had taken Cochran's guitar from the accident and held it until it could be returned to his family.

We recorded this album while I was eight months pregnant with our daughter Annabell. As I write this she is two weeks away from her first birthday, and I have enough distance to offer some reflections. Control is something that I have always relished and sought, but the making of this album was a different experience for me. Now I feel as if the process of recording this album was practice for relinquishing control, something I am more adept at now that I am a mother. In the studio, I trusted my bandmates, who are my best friends, our truly gifted producer Neilson Hubbard, and myself. I trusted each person and the process. I believed that we each individually were enough and that together we were more than that. Thank you Josh, Drew, Brian, Neilson, and of course, my partner in all things, Joe, for sharing so much time with me, for allowing me to be myself, and helping me cultivate the best version of it. It’s an honor to make music with you and I’m so happy that we have a record of it.

Baby is the seventh studio album by the band Yello, released in 1991 (see 1991 in music) under the label Mercury. An early cut of the album was used as the incidental soundtrack for the film The Adventures of Ford Fairlane.