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“Cry Like a Baby” is a 1968 song written by Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham, and performed by The Box Tops. The song reached #2 in April 1968 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, a position which it held for two weeks. It was kept out of the top spot by Bobby Goldsboro’s “Honey”, which stayed at #1 for five weeks. “Cry Like a Baby” also reached #2 on Cashbox for one week. It stayed on the Hot 100 for 15 weeks and Cashbox for 14 weeks. It was awarded a gold disc for selling over one million copies in the United States. Spooner Oldham explained in an interview how the song came to be: “Cry Like a Baby” features an electric sitar, played by session guitarist Reggie Young. Spooner Oldham played keyboards on... Read on...