| "Baby's Coming Back" / "Transylvania" | ||||
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| Single byMcFly | ||||
| from the albumMotion in the Ocean | ||||
| Released | 7 May 2007 (2007-05-07)[1] | |||
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| Label | Island | |||
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| Producer | Jason Perry ("Transylvania") | |||
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"Baby's Coming Back" and "Transylvania" are two songs by Englishpop rock bandMcFly, released together as adouble A-side single on 7 May 2007. "Baby's Coming Back" is a cover of a song originally written, performed, and recorded in 1990 by the Americanpower pop bandJellyfish, while "Transylvania" is an original by McFly. "Transylvania" was included on the first release of McFly's third studio album,Motion in the Ocean (2006), while "Baby's Coming Back" was added to the tour edition.
The single debuted at number one on theUK 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 theLewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir fell to number 29 from the top spot.[2]
It was originally announced that "Transylvania", written byTom Fletcher andDougie Poynter and produced byJason Perry, would be released by itself, before the announcement of a furtherdouble A-side was made on 20 March 2007.[3] "Baby's Coming Back" is a cover of the 1991Jellyfish song. Thepipe organ introduction to "Transylvania" is the opening ofJohann Sebastian Bach'sToccata and Fugue in D minor.
The B-side is a live recording cover of theBeastie Boys song "Fight for Your Right".
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 theWolverhampton tour date.
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 onYouTube from 3 February 2007, features the boys dressed up in costumes from a variety of mismatched time periods.Anne Boleyn is portrayed byDougie Poynter.[4]
UK CD single[5]
UK DVD single[6]
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