Baby, come to me is a Patti Austin single. It is from her album Every home should have one. The song was written by Rod Temperton, who would later write the Michael Jackson Thriller (also directed by Quincy Jones). It is a song in the form of a duet between a man and a woman. The man in question became James Ingram. In the background Michael McDonald sang his party. The single was first released in 1981. It only reached a "paltry" 73rd place on the Billboard Hot 100 at the time. The single caught on somewhere, because it was suddenly heard during the soap General Hospital. The television station ABC then passed on the many questions about that song to Warner Brothers, who then re-released the song. It then became a number 1 hit on the same Billboard