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<h1>Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley</h1><p>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p><p><br></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Baby%2C_I_Love_Your_Way--Freebird_Medley_%28Free_Baby%29_by_Will_to_Power_US_retail_cassette.jpg/220px-Baby%2C_I_Love_Your_Way--Freebird_Medley_%28Free_Baby%29_by_Will_to_Power_US_retail_cassette.jpg" alt="Baby, I Love Your Way--Freebird Medley (Free Baby) by Will to Power US retail cassette.jpg" width="220" height="347"></p><p><br></p><p>"<strong>Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley (Free Baby)</strong>" is a song by American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance-pop" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">dance-pop</a> band <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_to_Power_(band)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Will to Power</a>. The song combines elements of two previously recorded <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">rock</a> songs: "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby,_I_Love_Your_Way" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Baby, I Love Your Way</a>", a number-12 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Billboard</em> Hot 100</a> hit from 1976 by British-born singer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Frampton" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Peter Frampton</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby,_I_Love_Your_Way/Freebird_Medley#cite_note-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><sup>[1]</sup></a> and "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Bird" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Free Bird</a>" by American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_rock" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Southern rock</a> band <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynyrd_Skynyrd" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lynyrd Skynyrd</a>, which reached number 19 on the Hot 100 chart in 1975.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby,_I_Love_Your_Way/Freebird_Medley#cite_note-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><sup>[2]</sup></a> Suzi Carr is the female vocalist and a producer for the song.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby,_I_Love_Your_Way/Freebird_Medley#cite_note-aus-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><sup>[3]</sup></a></p><p>In the United States, the medley spent one week at number one on the <em>Billboard</em> Hot 100 and also peaked at number two on the <em>Billboard</em> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Adult_Contemporary_Tracks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Adult Contemporary</a> chart. Internationally, the song topped the Canadian, Norwegian, and Portuguese charts and reached the top 20 in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and West Germany. In March and April 2009, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VH1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">VH1</a> ran a countdown of the <em>100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 80s</em>, placing it at number 97 on the countdown despite the group having another US top-10 hit in 1991 with a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_version" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">cover version</a> of the 1975 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10cc" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">10cc</a> hit "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Not_in_Love" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">I'm Not in Love</a>."</p>