Baby's Coming Back/Transylvania

"Baby's Coming Back " / "Transylvania"
Single by McFly
from the album Motion in the Ocean (special edition)
Released7 May 2007 (2007-05-07)[1]
Length
  • 2:50 ("Baby's Coming Back")
  • 4:07 ("Transylvania")
LabelIsland
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Jason Perry ("Transylvania")
McFly singles chronology
"Sorry's Not Good Enough" / "Friday Night"
(2006) 		"Baby's Coming Back" / "Transylvania"
(2007) 		"The Heart Never Lies"
(2007)

"Baby's Coming Back" / "Transylvania" (single release titled "Baby's Coming Back & Transylvania") is the fourth and final single from English pop rock band McFly's third studio album, Motion in the Ocean. "Baby's Coming Back" is a cover of a song originally written, performed, and recorded in 1990 by the American power pop band Jellyfish, while "Transylvania" is an original by McFly. The single debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart but fell to number 20 the following week, setting the record for the biggest drop off number one until 2016, when "A Bridge over You" by the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir fell to number 29 from the top spot.[2]

Background

It was originally announced that "Transylvania", written by Tom Fletcher and Dougie Poynter and produced by Jason Perry, would be released by itself, before the announcement of a further double A-side was made on 20 March 2007.[3] "Baby's Coming Back" is a cover of the 1991 Jellyfish song. The pipe organ introduction to "Transylvania" is the opening of Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor.

The B-side is a live recording cover of the Beastie Boys song "Fight for Your Right".

Music videos

"Baby's Coming Back"

The official video is like their previous song, Ultraviolet, as it sees the boys performing on stage with tour footage from their recent tour, "Up Close and Personal". The video was filmed during their "Up Close And Personal" tour 2007 at the Wolverhampton tour date.

"Transylvania"

McFly's official site reported in January that the video "will see all the boys dressed up as girls in a gothic castle, with nasty villains, damsels in distress, and over the top shenanigans". The silent-movie-style black-and-white video, shot in late January 2007 and viewable on YouTube from 3 February 2007, features the boys dressed up in costumes from a variety of mismatched time periods. Anne Boleyn is portrayed by Dougie Poynter.

Track listings

UK CD single[4]

  1. "Baby's Coming Back"
  2. "Transylvania"
  3. "Fight for Your Right" (live)

UK DVD single[5]

  1. "Baby's Coming Back" (audio)
  2. "Transylvania" (audio)
  3. "Transylvania" (video)
  4. "Opening Night of 'Up Close & Personal Tour'" (video)
  5. "Studio Tour" (video)

Charts

References

  1. ^ "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. 5 May 2007. p. 31.
  2. ^ "Justin Bieber back at chart top spot for 2016". BBC News. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  3. ^ "New Single: Baby's Coming Back". Archived from the original on 6 February 2007.
  4. ^ Baby's Coming Back / Transylvania (UK CD single liner notes). McFly. Island Records. 2007. 1733933.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  5. ^ Baby's Coming Back / Transylvania (UK DVD single liner notes). McFly. Island Records. 2007. 1733936.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  6. ^ "Hits of the World – Eurocharts" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 119, no. 21. 26 May 2007. p. 57. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  7. ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Baby's Coming Back". Irish Singles Chart.
  8. ^ "Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
  9. ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
  10. ^ "The Official UK Singles Chart 2007" (PDF). UKChartsPlus. Retrieved 9 July 2018.