"Since I Met You Baby" was recorded on January 17, 1969 and released on August 18, 1969. It was also released in 1956 by R&B singer Ivory Joe Hunter.
Here is what Sonny James had to say about "Since I Met You Baby".
"Beginning with “Since I Met You Baby”. That song was written by Ivory Joe Hunter and I would say two years before he passed away I was doing a personal appearance in Monroe Louisiana where he lived and I had done in earlier years I had done “Since I Met You Baby”. Then I did another song that Ivory Joe wrote, “Empty Arms” later and he told me in Monroe. He said son back there when you did those songs for me my catalog was just, his catalog of songs that publishers had. He said they were just laying there and wasn't anybody touching them, any of the recorded ones or the one that had never been recorded. And he said once you did “Since I Met You Baby” he said all of the sudden my whole catalog they started doing songs I'd forgotten I'd written. He would just overly thank you, thank you and he was a real likable person and very personable and I've always liked Blues and I told him that naturally that just fit my style. The way I like to play blues on the guitar but most musicians do. Most country musicians like Blues and even what ever kind of musician, they either like Dixieland or Blues. It's a relaxing sort. We became friends. I met him a number of years ago only when I was doing Ed Sullivan show pretty regularly and he was on one of the shows once and we became friends there and over the years we would exchange maybe letters or occasional song of his. So it wasn't really that much of a surprise I don't believe that I would do one of his songs. This was years later he was not only expressing his gratitude like he had earlier by letter but in person. He just lived a year and a half, two years longer and during that time he made two or three visits to Nashville. He would appear on the Grand Ole Opry and the crowd you know just went wild when he would sing and they knew of course some of his songs through me, my doing em and naturally he had an awful lot of fans. He was an excellent writer and performer too."
To learn more about Sonny James be sure to check out the following:
http://www.sonnyjames.com/hof/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_James
https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/fansofsonnyjames/
And be sure and get your copy of Sonny James biography "Willful Shadows".
