The Babys - Midnight Rendezvous • TopPop

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 original Babys line-up consisted of founding member keyboardist/guitarist Michael Corby, and, in order of joining the group, vocalist/bassist John Waite, drummer Tony Brock, and guitarist Wally Stocker.
Broadcast date: 2 February 1980
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[@williamsholly600]

I feel so blessed that I grew up in the 80s

[@ricdale7813]

This was from an era when Hard Rock and HardPop were edgy,tonefull, full of hooks and zero autotune or backing track magic. Pure Talent. Wonderful band Criminally Underrated.

[@crapple009]

Power pop crossover.

[@cartersmith8560]

I admire your eloquence

[@user-ho5vz5tg3r]

When you wanted to go to Evolution Records and Tapes on Thursday and pick up new releases like this, so late 70's.

[@paulvon2378]

Probably one of the top 10 greatest rock songs of all time.

[@tomsnyder6955]

Music needs to be like this again

[@KOSMICKEN09]

John Waite is one of the greatest singers of all-time

[@melissadavis225]

I agree

[@bilbobaggins4710]

No doubt

[@celaine1970]

Absolutely is!! 💯‼❤

[@Winterstick549]

I agree, considering he had little range.

[@hurtlockerr8661]

Stop it if all time? come on dude you should never drink the bong water..

[@robinneeley9176]

Man, this song takes me back to the early 80's when we just rode around in the car and jammed ! I didn't realize those times would be an epic memory of mine. I sure miss them but glad I have them. :)

[@ltunedkc]

This song fuckin' rocks! It's been in constant rotation on my mixtapes and playlists since 1980 when I was 14.

[@kimwalker6265]

Rock on!

[@sl4983]

Same!

[@roseakarosiehweinstein3216]

@@sl4983 Absolutely this song is absolutely fucking sexy and hot and cool of course thanks to John Waite being totally sexy and handsome and mega seductive wow I would love to hook up with him

[@BruceWall-gv4up]

Me and. best bud rode. around in. 81 regularly and. got. high. to. Union. Jacks. album.

[@Wild_Western]

Very underrated rock band. Great vocals. Excellent musicians and not to mention, some great song writing. Yeah, underrated rock band.

[@celaine1970]

Very underrated! They ROCKED!! 💯‼❤🎸

[@doyleperkins4916]

I fell in love with this song when I was 13 back in 1978 or so.

[@limopul]

me too, same age

[@waynewilliamson4212]

this is one of my all time favorite albums and tunes....

[@soundsgreatentertainment4203]

The Babys were one of the most under rated bands from the 70's. Look how young Jonathan Cain is here, and playing guitar not keyboards like he does in Journey.

[@bilbobaggins4710]

Epic vocalist

[@michellewilliams1294]

Jonathan Cain does play keyboard in this band in another video. But they're great aren't they!

[@hurtlockerr8661]

Why do people always say that about bands like the baby’s I mean I was like 12 when this came out song and as a 12 year old I knew who the baby’s were .. I’m sorry bro but they’re not underrated they got there do in the late 70s & early 80s

[@jeremywhitworth7299]

I think he played guitar a 1 or 2 of Journey’s hit songs. I just can’t recall which one or possibly 2.

[@carolethorn3211]

@@hurtlockerr8661 "under-rated" does sound a touch awkward here, referencing The Babys. In a few years I'll likely see a video of "Gimme Shelter" and some 12 year old will Like it and comment "Dude! Those Stones guys were so under-rated man!".

[@mitchweiner]

Underrated band and lead singer! This is my first time listening to them and I’m an instant fan!

[@roseakarosiehweinstein3216]

You and me both babe but it's my first time though I've been a fan of John Waite since Missing You but I still think he's absolutely fucking sexy

[@CL-sp2yv]

Wrong! Just because you did not know about The Babys or John Waite does not mean they are "underrated". Infact, the Babys were huge back in the day! John Waite later created a very successful solo career during the 80's before being part of the supergroup, Bad English. In other words, he is hardly an underrated singer! He is very well known! You just don't know better!

[@AaronEbright]

Cool you get some new music to listen to. There new every time i hear them and been listening to them for years.

[@marlenereyna9692]

Best dancing song! I love The Baby's and yet they are so under rated

[@jeffreyhoehn9307]

I’d almost forgotten how fricken awesome this song was…. 😮

[@sl4983]

Yup same

[@rox006]

John is in the top five rock singers. He was born to Rock.

[@mikedonner5603]

Great times when cruising around with my girlfriend at the time and singing this song to her when came on the radio. Never forget those times. MISS THEM DEARLY!

[@DaisyAnnabelle65]

This song is Badass!💥🎼💥

[@roseakarosiehweinstein3216]

Truly badass

[@leefreed2060]

One of the absolute greatest bands ever of my childhood

[@cliffherren9811]

Good song along with "Isn't It Time" and "Everytime I Think Of You", and others.

[@roseakarosiehweinstein3216]

Great song

[@michaelsutliff6817]

Love the ending to this song. Especially when the radio station forgot to cut it off. You know what I mean.

[@brettthebassist]

Oh that’s right 😜

[@wookieelee38]

Love it haaaaa

[@chrisyates4640]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@chrisyates4640]

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeed

[@ralphtom3431]

What's cut off?

[@Winterstick549]

Cruising on the main drag with this song blaring from my Jensen speakers.

[@delcole8321]

I wore out this 8 track tape

[@marknelson3355]

HAHA, same here buddy...

[@morrisonreed1]

Im hoping they were Jensen tri axles , with that booster thing

[@ronsmock1879]

John actually did an advertisement campaign for Jensen audio.

[@BeautifulSpirit-kf5ld]

John always a master at putting maximum passion to a lyric. It's no wonder he was offered a role on Broadway, years ago.

[@roseakarosiehweinstein3216]

Amazing

[@eightiesmusic1984]

Which role?

[@hiroehayes593]

I will Waite to see John Waite in Lodi,Calif. June 25,2022 ! --Frank Taormina, fan since the 1970's

[@Cinemagoer_64]

Baby’s are great! Always enjoyed Tony Brock’s drumming!

[@tomsnyder6955]

This song is a classic

[@roseakarosiehweinstein3216]

Absolutely it's a fucking classic

[@biddydibdab9180]

I remember our Midnight Rendevous in 1981. Smokin’ hot.

[@roseakarosiehweinstein3216]

Firey

[@sl4983]

Smokin'!!!!

[@tammiealmeida4982]

This was their greatest albums..... I always played this song and In Your Eyes driving in my beat up barracuda convertible, with the the top down driving from Asbury Park to Bradley Beach..

[@ClaudineBOISSARD]

Waouh ! Fantastique titre ! Quel punch ! ^♥^ John Waite, quelle voix ! Merci pour la mise en ligne. ☺

[@georgedrew4200]

Great rollerskating tune back in the day...luv it

[@ElectricAngel181]

Ahhh The 80's ❤ " On the freeway with the throttle down ❤

[@robertsimmons6098]

Bring back 70's MUSIC. BANDS PEOPLE PLAYING INSTRUMENTS.

[@carlamongold33]

TOTALLY UNDERATED-JOHN WAITE WAS A GREAT FRONT MAN

[@roseakarosiehweinstein3216]

Still is oh my God

[@carlamongold33]

I ❤️ love the Babys!!

[@wayward6235]

Loved dancing to this tune at the clubs! Too fun!

[@sl4983]

Yup the clubs wink 😊

[@sl4983]

Very very fun!!

[@roseakarosiehweinstein3216]

@@sl4983 absolutely fucking fun

[@sl4983]

Saw them in concert! Man it rocked!!!

[@luiscavalcanti3431]

A new song to rock all night long

[@amyfisher8897]

Exciting time of my life with my young 💕💕💕💕💕💕 LOVE

[@APaganPerspective]

THIS is the BABYS!!!!

[@arandumassol1144]

Takes me back to my first high school dance in 80, first time I heard a live band and they played this song, blew my away.

[@joediamondcpa796]

One of the best songs ever!

[@malena2467]

This song is so passionate!!!!!!!!

[@stingray4mesidewinderbandga]

Saw em open for Journey in Louisville. Still have the hat pin he threw to us. Union Jacks is my all time fav album. Got it on 8 track too.

[@allandavid5460]

AWESOME PERFORMANCE AND OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE AND THE EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE AND FANTABULOUS PERFORMANCE AND THE FANTASTIC PERFORMANCE. KEEP IT UP SIR FROM ALLAN DAVID. GOD BLESS YOU SO MUCH SIR FROM ALLAN DAVID.

[@jdee8267]

Rock in its purest form

[@tracycase4520]

Never gets old.

[@SSaaNNddYY77]

What a way to end a stressful day! Great song 🎵

[@roseakarosiehweinstein3216]

Fantastic song

[@tinamarie0701]

Oh yeah the memories!!!! This was my Pandora profile back in the day!

[@dbpiercy1]

great song

[@roseakarosiehweinstein3216]

Very sexy

[@renecuellar3078]

The Babys Midnight Rendezvous

[@bobstocker3090]

I’m helping out on the handclaps at the end, great great song That’s my claim to fame

[@TIWICI]

Still love 'em! Still have some vinyl Babys!😎🤘🤘🤘❤

[@marccresta880]

saw them on their Union Jack's tour..Tower Theater..1980

[@tomtaylor6163]

These guys were awesome

[@Hoggard68]

Love the 4 cab Marshall stack!!

[@ivanfortuny2244]

Great song good guitar riffs.

[@troyjensen2682]

This is what dance rock is supposed to be

[@rickclark4714]

This one song has more groove and hooks than any twenty released in the last ten years.

[@94HEATH94]

WOAH! Never knew there was a performance of this!

[@joeperson4792]

Usta hear this on KMEL in the 80's. Such memories growing up at that time!

[@MrJaykay64]

Wally Stocker always kills it on the bass...

[@roseakarosiehweinstein3216]

Absolutely he slays it

[@phoenixx_rising]

@@roseakarosiehweinstein3216 Pretty sure Wally is on guitar. If I'm not mistaken, I think that's Ricky Phillips on bass.

[@roseakarosiehweinstein3216]

@@phoenixx_rising great observation my dear friend

[@dukeofhaas]

Has anyone heard what John Waite sings/says at the very, very end of this song, just as it fades out? You won't hear it on this version, but you can hear it on the original recording and a few videos on KZbin. I won't reveal the answer here - you'll have to find it on your own - but let's just say that John leaves nothing to the imagination about what he Really wants to do with the girl he's singing about.

[@rebeccarosehirschfield7386]

Sure did. (Censors MIA?). Many others clearly not in the loop. A diehard Waite/Babys fan but also a clear-eyed critic, I prefaced this tune for my boyfriend thusly: ‘I’m gonna send you one final Babys track. This is a later ( = mediocre) iteration of the band, helmed by our problematic friend John ‘Narcissist’ Waite. I suspect he wrote the thing. Trying embarrassingly and desperately hard to be a misogynistic sexpot rocker of the sleazy persuasion, à la John Parr or David Lee Roth, he manages to slip it in (rather literally!) at the tail end of the song - if you don’t gag earlier (pun intended), try to last (pun intended) until the final moment.’ Since I wrote that, the song has infected me with its deep rocking raunch, bringing my ‘clear-eyed critique’ into some question! 🎸🥸

[@dukeofhaas]

@@rebeccarosehirschfield7386 My dear Rebecca, what a splendid reply! If you're not a professional writer it's probably because you are doing something equally interesting and creative. Now, to touch on the essence of your comment: I do my best to separate the work of a recording artist from their personal life by recognizing that all performative art is just that - it's all an act. After all, many if not most highly creative people are known to be personally horrible humans, and history is replete with examples. Yet it's been my experience that Most people, regardless of talent, have a terrible side to their personality (refer to "The Stranger" by Billy Joel). Yet if the current cultural trend of cancellation and banishment continues, who among us will remain to provide entertainment? Ciao for now! -DoH

[@davewhiting9730]

I'm guessing they cut it out for tv purposes. But yes, I was waiting for that part to see if it would be left in

[@psst4usall]

Yes, when the fade started, we always slowly upped the volumn 😝

[@kevinkemble3718]

All Right! - John Waite (Come people, no body better at “all right”).

[@MegDesignsCA]

That drummer rocks!!!

[@davidg.9932]

Tony Brock from the coastal town of Poole, England.. Now 67 years old.. Great drummer, for sure..

[@michaelschmidt9708]

Tony Brock played with Rod Stewart after The Babys broke up.

[@urbanurchin5930]

I woke up this morning with this playing in my head......I haven't listened to this track for probably 10 years.......don't know why it came back to me ???

[@Porsche996driver]

This song was the jam! 1980 action but this video is missing the hotties in Dolphin shorts ha. Great party tune!

[@marthahubbard9463]

Where’s the time gone? Seems like yesterday I was listening to this on the radio.

[@sableann4255]

God I loved this song!!!

[@brandtwakefield9865]

I heard this for the first time recently. It was on the"Up The Academy" soundtrack.

[@sl4983]

First time ever? Incredible. I saw them in concert 😊

[@pagefire2]

Killer song.

[@roseakarosiehweinstein3216]

Very seductive and gritty song

[@jasonnewton3806]

I saw them open for Journey in 1980 at the Derby Eve Jam in Louisville, Ky. Both acts were fantastic.

[@metalmanchild1454]

Love that stack on stack Marshall's!!!

[@davidpearlactorteacherbizman]

One of the most under rated bands of all times...John Waite always one of my favorite singers...3 of these guys along with Neil Schon and Deen Castronovo made up Bad English....They should have stayed together longer ...tragic

[@eightiesmusic1984]

Bad English is one of my favourite bands. I agree it is tragic that they did not continue.

[@dirtdueland3053]

Very few listen to the Best.....!!!

[@philip2010]

Awesome band but very underrated they deserved way more recognition than what they got

[@CL-sp2yv]

Not underrated at all! Infact, the Babys were huge back in the day! John Waite later created a very successful solo career during the 80's before being part of the supergroup, Bad English.

[@chadwallace9713]

The chorus is 🔥

[@roseakarosiehweinstein3216]

Scorching

[@janetmoore5645]

Great song after all these years 💗.

[@marymistretta6906]

Love love this song!! 🔥🔥🔥

[@RosieHWeinstein-vl1nm]

Same here babe it's a very sexy and seductive song

[@JWH66]

The song needed another minute added to it. Reminds me of Ah Leah! The song ends when it was just starting to peak.

[@tms870]

Love the pure music… No autotune, bullshit insight

[@RICHBLACKCOCK]

1979!!! Kinda miss those days.

[@ucity88]

This sonnnnng!!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤

[@marlinshanklin-ww7em]

Brings back memories 8th grade.

[@mitchellsoper2025]

awesome

[@mitchellsoper2025]

love that music

[@roseakarosiehweinstein3216]

Me too hunny I was born in the wrong decade

[@allandavid5460]

CONGRATULATIONS THE BABBYS BANDS.KEEP IT UP SIR FROM ALLAN DAVID. GOD BLESS YOU SO MUCH SIR FROM ALLAN DAVID.

[@jeffsherman2990]

THEY ARE THE BEST OF THE BEST AND SO IS JOHN!!!!!!!

[@bigdeal6852]

An amazing group ! They should be in the HOF. ! I love Jonathan Caine a really cool dude who went on to play with Journey and wrote some GREAT songs ! 👍👍

[@donoutlaws2655]

love this song!

[@TomsterStuff]

BAD ENGLISH rocks! Especially now that Greg Brady is their drummer! Kidding! 🎶😁🎶

[@roxannelarrieu2927]

John Waite 🌹La voix D"or du Rock♥

[@fromthebackofmymind]

A really great rock and roll song.

[@jamm321]

I was a senior in High School 1980 and brought a small cassette tape player to one of my classes. Fast forwarded it to fade out at the end and turned it up the... All I really wanna do, Oh i really wanna F- BOMB YOU. Good for some shock value for fellow students. It was really a hit with all.

[@jamm321]

You all should know they cut that out on this vid BTW.

[@kevinkemble3718]

Don’t miss the days on the road 1970s early 80s. However, my brother and I happened to walk back in one March 17th 1995. There she was as I was holding court a few minutes before midnight.... and I’m like blown away by this whirlwind of a woman, stopped at the waitress station grabbing coffee for the boys in band playing at the time. First time she’d ever been at this historic venue. I just a to ask her, where did come from? She smiles walking away looking over her shoulder. Me: do you dance? Her: ask me! I did and we’re celebrating as we do every 17th of the month. Married her in 1997. I’m one of the luckiest dudes around. Like the flame through life happenings as does for all of us .... we roll on. I’m one lucky man. And the benefits came with it. ....still. Never cave in, give up nor quit.

[@TheKaffeeKlatsch]

Love the bass drum skin.

[@nicolejoleneable]

Is that Jonathan Cain on guitar? The Babys have always been one of my favorite bands! Thank You for this..So special to me.

[@RICHBLACKCOCK]

Jo Jo Love. It most definitly is!! U have very keen eyes!!! One of Chicagos` favorite sons!!! Looks a tad indifferent not being behind the keyboards with JOURNEY later on & BAD ENGLISH huh?! JC played other instruments as well. Before I go. I always wanted to see Cain & MICHAEL ANTHONY former bass player for VAN HALEN do a musical collaboration together. Anthony is also from Chicago.

[@scottlafleur4148]

When the video started there wasn't a good shot of him. But I also didn't see a keyboard. Jonathan Cain playing rhythm guitar. Gotta love it.

[@mrmarshmadness1]

Yes it is! And he co-wrote this tune with John Waite. Evidently when he joined the group, they knew he played keys but he told them he was also a guitarist but no one believed him. :-) So he brought his guitar into rehearsal one day and started jamming on the riff to what would become this tune . . . and the rest is history!

[@wyganter]

⁠Duing a rehearsal, Cain played a melody on the piano and said he was trying to write a song around it. The band said “Nah, that sounds cheesy”. When he joined Journey, Cain played the same line for Steve Perry. Then within fifteen minutes, they co-wrote the song “Open Arms”

[@RICHBLACKCOCK]

Driving faster than you want me to, can`t help myself when I`m alone with you, Alright, alright. I`ve passed the limit and theres no way back, your kinda love give me a HEART ATTACK!!! Boy, u gotta love lyrics like that!

[@roseakarosiehweinstein3216]

Absolutely indeed

[@oscargutierrez247]

Una cancion de la mejor calidad ,por siempre ,gracias por subirla. abrazo desde argentina

[@larrycanepa]

It's cool to see Jonathan Cain playing rhythm guitar.

[@duanehogan15]

Look up “Stone in Love” live from the early 80’s

[@Monkey-cg2rb]

Great music

[@michaelzarro8871]

Shame they cut the song short probably aren’t allowed to keep that last line in…great song…miss this music

[@sl4983]

It's on another video

[@roseakarosiehweinstein3216]

​@@sl4983really where can I find it 😊

[@4EverAJerseyGirl1213]

😍😍😍

[@hubertgunpowder]

Sounds great !! ♫

[@eddyredmond7758]

Got to see them warm up for Styx in Nashville. The Pieces of Eight tour in 1978.

[@roseakarosiehweinstein3216]

I swear to God either I'm an old soul or I was born in wrong decade