Baby Won't You Please Come Home is a blues song published in 1919, written by Charles Warfield and Clarence Williams, though authorship has been disputed. The original recording and release were by Eva Taylor with Clarence Williams accompanying on piano, in 1922-1923. The first hit version was Bessie Smith's 1923 recording, which stayed on the charts for four weeks and peaked at No. 6. Over the years it has become a jazz standard, covered by many artists from Clarence Williams' Blue Five (1927) to Louis Armstrong (1939), Frank Sinatra (1957), and Miles Davis (1963). It also serves as the title cut of Clarence Williams' collection His 25 Greatest Hits 1923-1933 and has appeared in films such as That's the Spirit (1945) and Igor (2008).
