Babe I’m Gonna Leave You

1969 · via Anne Bredon

Led Zeppelin’s earliest release of “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You” on file came out in 1969. Anne Bredon, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant are credited as its writers. The earliest release on file is Joan Baez’s, from 1962. Also recorded by Quicksilver Messenger Service (released 1968), Great White (released 1994) and P!nk (released 2009), among 130 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Everybody knows the record, almost nobody reads the credit: Anne Bredon's name sits right there next to Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. Play it again knowing the song started with her.

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Credited writers: Anne Bredon, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant.

Earliest release on file: Joan Baez, 1962.

Other recordings on file · first release year

Quicksilver Messenger Service1968
Chapter Eleven1988
Great White1994
Robert Plant1994
The Plebs1998
Kenny Blackwell2000
Robert Plant and his Strange Sensation2002
Doro2003
Richard DeVinck2003
BlackBud2006
Vanilla Fudge2006
Joe Lynn Turner, Jeff “Skunk” Baxter, Tony Franklin, Doane Perry & Bob Kulick2007

130 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Long before P!nk or Doro got to it, which band cut Anne Bredon's "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" and put two of their own members beside her on the credit?Led Zeppelin

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