Memphis cab driver Sidney Bailey (retired) has been writing hit songs since the early 1960’s. He worked as a staff writer at Stax Records with the team known as Bailey, Hayes & Brown (ie. Isaac Hayes & William Brown)  The trio wrote songs for The Astors, The Mad Lads, The Mar-Keys & others on the Stax roster.  He later worked closely with the legendary Willie Mitchell at Hi Records on material for artists like Lynn White, Norman West & Ann Peebles.

Crossover success first arrived when avant-garde, roots musician Ry Cooder recorded two Sidney Bailey compositions.  The songs  were presented to Cooder by former Memphis music producer Chips Moman.  Recordings by Mississippi Heat, Saffire & Eddie Carroll are other examples of this songwriters’ crossover appeal.

Upstart Memphis label Ecko Records had their very first hit with the Bailey-penned “I’ll Drink Your Bath Water Baby” by Ollie Nightingale.  Baileys' collaboration with Ecko Records yielded many more hits by several artists on the label during the mid to late 1990’s.  The two parted ways after a dispute over songwriting credits for the Barbara Carr smash hit, follow-up single "Bone Me Like You Own Me".

DaddyBNice.com recognizes Sidney Bailey as one of “the best composers in American popular music today…”

Major artists who have recorded works by Sidney Bailey include Little Milton, Bobby “Blue” Bland, James Carr, Denise LaSalle,  Artie "Blues Boy" White & Johnnie Taylor.

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Sidney W. Bailey - songwriter

Artie "Blues Boy" White - I'm Gonna Marry My Mother-In-Law
Barbara Carr - Footprints on the Ceiling
Bill Coday - Can't Get Enough
Bill Coday - Her Love Is Good Enough to Put in Collard Greens
Bill Coday - Husband Helping Man
Bill Coday - That's When the Blues Began
Billy Scott & the Prophets - I'm Ready to Party
Bobby "Blue" Bland - She's Puttin' Something in My Food
Charles Wilson - I've Got Trouble in My Bedroom
Charles Wilson - Keepin' Up With the Joneses
Charles Wilson - Old Man Jody's Son
Charles Wilson - Right in the Middle of Wrong
Charles Wilson - Slow Down, Lowdown Kind of Love
Dorothy Williams - You Can't Get Nothin' Straight Between Us
Eddie Carroll - I've Never Met an Angel Before
James Carr - I'm Gonna Marry My Mother-In-Law
James Carr - Soul Survivor
James Carr - That's When the Blues Began
James Peterson - Bite My Hook
Johnnie Taylor - You Can't Win (With a Losing Hand)
Lee "Shot" Williams - Down in the Hood
Little Milton - A Real Good Woman
Little Milton - She Never Gets the Blues
Mississippi Heat - Footprints on the Ceiling
Norman West - Five Pages of Heart Break
Ollie Nightingale - Changing for the Better
Ollie Nightingale - I'll Drink Your Bath Water, Baby
Ollie Nightingale - I'm Ready to Party
Ollie Nightingale - Keepin' up With the Joneses
Ollie Nightingale - Tell Me What You Want Me to Do
Ollie Nightingale - That's What You Are to Me
Ollie Nightingale - That's When the Blues Began
Ruby Andrews - Fishin' for a Man
Ruby Andrews - Footprints on the Ceiling
Ry Cooder - Fool for a Cigarette
Ry Cooder - The Very Thing That Makes You Rich Makes Me Poor
Saffire-The Uppity Blues Women - Footprints on the Ceiling
The Astors - In The Twilight Zone (co-writers Isaac Hayes/David Porter)
The Mad Lads - Tear Maker (co-writers Isaac Hayes/William Brown)
Dorothy Williams - The Well's Gone Dry
Toni Green - Keeping up With the Joneses
Vernis Rucker - Dead to Right
Vernis Rucker - Fishin' for a Man
Vernis Rucker - There's a Hurt Where My Heart Used to Be
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