“Baby Come Back” was featured on Player’s self-titled debut album, released on Sept. 1, 1977. The band followed up the success of their No. 1 song with “This Time I’m in It for Love.” ...

In January of 1978, when your professor was in 5 th grade and being driven to soccer practice by his mother, the song “Baby Come Back” by a band named Player was omnipresent.