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The Babys are a British rock group best known for their songs "Isn't It Time" and "Every Time I Think of You". Both songs were composed by Jack Conrad and Ray Kennedy, and each reached No. 13 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and No. 8 on the ''Cashbox'' chart in the late 1970s. The 1976–1978 Babys line-up consisted of keyboardist/guitarist Michael Corby, vocalist/bassist John Waite, drummer Tony Brock and guitarist Wally Stocker. The group signed a contract that was the highest ever for a new music act at the time. Two studio albums, ''The Babys'' and ''Broken Heart'' went without incident and were well received. However, when recording Head First in August 1978, Michael Corby was replaced by Jonathan Cain as keyboardist and Ricky Phillips took over as bassist. From 1979 until the breakup in 1981, The Babys line-up consisted of vocalist Waite, drummer Brock, bassist Phillips, guitarist Stocker, and keyboardist Cain. John Waite went on to produce a major solo hit, "Missing You", in 1984. Stocker and Brock worked with Rod Stewart and other mainstream artists including Elton John and Air Supply. Cain left to join Journey. Waite, Cain and Phillips joined Bad English in the late 1980s. Phillips currently plays for Styx. In 2013 it was announced that Brock and Stocker had reformed the band, alongside vocalist/bassist John Bisaha and guitarist Joey Sykes. In 2014, The Babys released their latest album "I'll Have Some of That!" - the first album in over 30 years - produced by Tony Brock at his studio - Silver Dreams Studios in California.〔https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ill-have-some-of-that/id867887118〕 The Babys took to the road for the first time in over 30 years in 2015. Northeast, Southeast, West Coast and MidWest shows have had great response.〔http://musicenthusiastmag.com/the-babys-orlando-2015-review-photos/〕〔http://michaelcavacini.com/2015/07/05/the-babys-go-head-first-in-pa/〕 ==Origin and name== Founding member Mike Corby places the origin of the idea for the band at Smalls Café on the Fulham Road in London in 1973, during a chance meeting with manager Adrian Millar. An agreement was signed between Corby and Millar on 4 September 1974, and auditions were held to fill out the remaining members. Tony Brock was the third member of the group to join after Waite. Brock was playing with a group called Strider.〔Pop Scene - Australia's International Pop Magazine, issue No 2, Gordon and Gotch, 1977.〕 Brock was already an established rock drummer, but some financial difficulties with Strider, and the opportunity to join a group with sound financial backing like Corby and Millar's project, made him decide to take a chance with this group instead.〔 The last member to join the line-up was Wally Stocker.〔 In 1977 they purchased a 24 track mobile unit with which to record their music. They went to a ranch house in the Malibu mountains and put down the tracks in six weeks.〔 The influences of the songs came about from their first year in Los Angeles and the culture shock of their relocation there.〔 The names "Cry Babys" and "Big Babys" were also proposed with Millar ultimately deciding on "The Babys". In a 1979 Hit Parader magazine interview, Waite stated,
Music videos were produced by Mike Mansfield for Supersonic, and Chrysalis Records signed the band in 1976.〔(Life Story of John Waite - The Babys ). 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Babys」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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