My Baby Loves Me (Just the Way That I Am)

"My Baby Loves Me (Just the Way That I Am)" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Gretchen Peters. The song was first recorded by Canadian country music singer Patricia Conroy on her 1992 album, Bad Day for Trains. Her version was released in May 1992 as the first single from her album and peaked at number 8 on the RPM Top Country Tracks chart.

Martina McBride version

"My Baby Loves Me"

Single by Martina McBride

from the album The Way That I Am

B-side

"A Woman Knows"^[1]

Released

July 12, 1993

Format

CD single, cassette single

Genre

Country

Length

2:36

Label

RCA Nashville

Producer(s)

Paul Worley, Ed Seay, Martina McBride

Martina McBride singles chronology

"Cheap Whiskey"
(1993)

"My Baby Loves Me"
(1993)

"Life #9"
(1994)

Music video
"My Baby Loves Me" at CMT.com

Martina McBride covered the song in 1993 under the title of "My Baby Loves Me". Her rendition was released in July 1993 as the first single from her 1993 album The Way That I Am and went reached number-one on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart. The song peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart for one week, kept from the top spot by Garth Brooks's American Honky-Tonk Bar Association.

McBride's version includes slide guitar and six-string bass riffs from Paul Worley, who criticized his own performance on them and said that they "somehow never got erased".^[2]

Music video

A music video was filmed for this version of the song. It was directed by Steven Goldmann.

Chart performance

Patricia Conroy

Chart (1992)	Peak position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)^[3]	8

Year-end charts

Chart (1992)	Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)^[4]	90

Martina McBride

Chart (1993)	Peak position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)^[5]	1
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[6]	2

Year-end charts

Chart (1993)	Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)^[7]	55

Chart (1994)	Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)^[8]	20

Preceded by "I'm Somebody" by Charlie Major	RPM Country Tracks number-one single December 18-December 25, 1993	Succeeded by "Guitar Talk" by Michelle Wright

References

↑ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 262. ISBN 0-89820-177-2. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
↑ Greatest Hits (CD booklet). Martina McBride. RCA Records. 2001. 67012.
↑ "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 2017." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. August 1, 1992. Retrieved August 15, 2013.
↑ "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1992". RPM. December 19, 1992. Retrieved August 15, 2013.
↑ "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 2331." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. December 18, 1993. Retrieved August 4, 2013.
↑ "Martina McBride – Chart history" Billboard Hot Country Songs for Martina McBride.
↑ "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1993". RPM. December 18, 1993. Retrieved August 5, 2013.
↑ "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1994". RPM. December 12, 1994. Retrieved August 4, 2013.

Patricia Conroy

Studio albums	Blue Angel Bad Day for Trains You Can't Resist Wild As the Wind Talking to Myself

Compilation albums	Greatest Hits

Notable singles	"This Time" "Take Me with You" "My Baby Loves Me (Just the Way That I Am)" "Bad Day for Trains" "What Do You Care" "Blank Pages" "Somebody's Leavin'" "What Else Can I Do" "You Can't Resist It" "I Don't Wanna Be the One" "Keep Me Rockin'" "Direction of Love" "Ain't Nobody Like You"

Martina McBride singles

The Time Has Come	"The Time Has Come" "That's Me" "Cheap Whiskey"

The Way That I Am	"My Baby Loves Me" "Life #9" "Independence Day" "Heart Trouble" "Where I Used to Have a Heart"

Wild Angels	"Safe in the Arms of Love" "Wild Angels" "Phones Are Ringin' All Over Town" "Swingin' Doors" "Cry on the Shoulder of the Road"

Evolution	"A Broken Wing" "Valentine" (with Jim Brickman) "Happy Girl" "Wrong Again" "Whatever You Say"

Emotion	"I Love You" "Love's the Only House" "There You Are" "It's My Time"

Greatest Hits	"When God-Fearin' Women Get the Blues" "Blessed" "Where Would You Be" "Concrete Angel"

Martina	"This One's for the Girls" "In My Daughter's Eyes" "How Far" "God's Will"

Timeless	"(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden" "I Still Miss Someone" (featuring Dolly Parton)

Waking Up Laughing	"Anyway" "How I Feel" "For These Times"

Shine	"Ride" "I Just Call You Mine" "Wrong Baby Wrong"

Eleven	"Teenage Daughters" "I'm Gonna Love You Through It" "Marry Me" (featuring Pat Monahan)

Guest singles	"Still Holding On" (with Clint Black) "Trip Around the Sun" (with Jimmy Buffett)

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