Baby We've Got a Date

Baby We've Got a Date (in German about "Honey, we have a rendezvous ") is a song by Bob Marley and his band, The Wailers. It was released on the studio album, Catch a Fire (1973 ), the fifth of nine songs. The abbreviated alternative name was Rock It Baby.

Baby We've Got a Date was composed by Marley, who also sings the song itself. In the background along with Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer sing some female voices, which is not the I- Threes, which were added after leaving Tosh Wailers and later, is here. As well as the on the album immediately following Stir It Up, in whose shadow the song was and still is, it's about a girl and the (also physical ) love.

Statistical data

The album version has the key of A major; Live versions of the songs and their keys, and duration have not yet been released. The duration of the album version is just under four minutes.

Song text description

The text is about a first date with a girl, which is picked up in the evening at about seven forty-five clock; it should not be too late and will be asked for some confidence. Walk together in the moonlight, and are happy about their new love that they share.

In particular, repeatedly repeating passages " Rock it baby" and "We got to get together" allude to the cozy intimacy and physical love of a young couple, although less significantly than in Stir It Up.

Music Description

The song begins with a short solo of the Hammond organ and the electric bass guitar, softly accompanied by the drums and the rhythm guitar. With the onset of Marley's vocal part is added also the lead guitar and plays the typical offbeat, while the drums goes into the classic One Drop style. The first stanza is accompanied by Tosh and Wailer in the background, at the " Rock it baby" Ask the women's voices are added. A short bridge in F sharp minor leads to the repetition of the first stanza. A guitar solo leads again through the bridge until you return to the " Rock it baby" Make the song accompany you until the end.

The lead guitar reminded by their schrummenden background riffs on typical Hawaiian sounds and thus gives the whole song a Hawaiian touch. Since Baby We've Got a Date was written in the key of A major, the same as Stir It Up, the song can be seen as a prelude to Stir It Up, which became one of the most known songs by Marley. Together with Stir It Up Baby We've Got a Date is the soft part of the otherwise traversed by militant and socially critical songs album Catch a Fire.

Other Versions

The only published in Jamaica version of the album Catch a Fire, which does not include the overdubs in London Iceland studios, includes the song under the name Rock It Baby and without the lead guitar.

It also exists a version containing additional text to the point where during the second bridge, the lead guitar solo. The also sung by Marley additional text says that the couple is having fun until sunrise; the girl to hold his hand, then it will feel and understand the love.

• Reggae song
• Bob Marley song
• Song 1973