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\n\tThis year, Amy Grant<\/a>\u2019s hit single \u201cBaby Baby\u201d turns 35 years old. The song, off the 1991 album Heart in Motion<\/em>, gave Grant her first chart-topper as a solo artist. Previously, she had hit Number One as part of a collab, the 1986 duet with Peter Cetera \u201cThe Next Time I Fall.\u201d In a new interview with Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2019s Nashville Now<\/em> podcast, Grant<\/a>, who had made her career to that point in the Christian music space, says her record label at the time worried she couldn\u2019t carry \u201cBaby Baby\u201d alone.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThey wanted me to duet with somebody. They talked about Aretha Franklin,\u201d she recalls. \u201cThey said, \u2018We need to deliver it in a brown bag. Who\u2019s gonna listen to this from the girl from the Contemporary Christian Music world?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAfter a radio station in San Diego began playing \u201cBaby Baby\u201d and listeners started furiously requesting the song, Grant proved she could indeed make waves as a pop singer. She remembers the moment she realized the song had blown up: when she was recognized at a Nashville area breakfast spot.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cTouring had been big before that, but my life had still felt private,\u201d she says. \u201cI remember walking out of the Donut Den and some girls from Hillsboro High School were next door and they started screaming.\u201d<\/p>\n