# Baby Workout

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{{Infobox song
| name       = Baby Workout
| cover      = Baby_Workout_-_Jackie_Wilson.jpg
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [Jackie Wilson](/source/Jackie_Wilson)
| album      = Baby Workout
| B-side     = I'm Going Crazy (Gotta Get You Off My Mind)
| released   = March 1963
| recorded   =
| studio     =
| venue      =
| genre      = [R&B](/source/Rhythm_and_blues)
| length     = 3:02
| label      = [Brunswick Records](/source/Brunswick_Records)
| writer     = Alonzo Tucker, Jackie Wilson
| producer   =
| prev_title = What Good Am I Without You
| prev_year  = 1963
| next_title = [Shake a Hand](/source/Shake_a_Hand)
| next_year  = 1963
}}

"'''Baby Workout'''" is an [R&B](/source/Rhythm_and_blues) song by [Jackie Wilson](/source/Jackie_Wilson) from the 1963 album of the same name. The track is about Wilson urging a girl to dance (work out) all night with him. It was Wilson's biggest hit of his singles that charted on both the [''Billboard'' Hot 100](/source/Billboard_Hot_100) and the [Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs](/source/Hot_R%26B%2FHip-Hop_Songs). It was his fifth and penultimate #1 R&B song. It was his second highest-charting song on the pop charts, peaking at #5.<ref>{{cite book |title= Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=630}}</ref>  It was written by Wilson and good friend Alonzo Tucker, an original member of the famed 1950s Doo Wop group, [the Midnighters](/source/the_Midnighters). 

[George Benson](/source/George_Benson) covered the song for his 1990 album ''[Big Boss Band](/source/Big_Boss_Band)''. It was also released as a single.

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://secondhandsongs.com/work/34987/versions List of cover versions of "Baby Workout"] at SecondHandSongs.com

{{Jackie Wilson}}

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Category:1963 singles
Category:Jackie Wilson songs
Category:1963 songs
Category:Brunswick Records singles
Category:Songs about dancing

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