Proto Yacht Rock commentator (and French philosopher) Roland Barthes pictured here in the epochal year that Player topped the charts with “Baby Come Back”: 1978. (Credit: Sophie Bassouls/Sygma ...

Player's 'Baby Come Back' is one of the greatest Yacht Rock songs of all time. But what is the secret behind the band's only No. 1 hit?

And why weren't they able to match their initial burst of success? Here is the story of Player's "Baby Come Back," a song that no respectable Yacht Rock playlist can do without.

"Baby Come Back" by the Los Angeles band Player hit No. 1 on the singles charts in early 1978. When I heard the song upon its release in the fall of 1977, I was convinced it was a Darryl Hall and ...

'The Bold and the Beautiful' star Ronn Moss is known as the original Ridge Forrester. But he's also an original member of Player.

A royalties lawsuit over Player’s 1977 hit “Baby Come Back” is one step closer to trial after a California judge on Wednesday allowed a trimmed version of the complaint to move forward ...

Universal Music Group and Vivendi are being sued for allegedly underpaying royalties on Player’s 1977 hit “Baby Come Back.” Overrated Productions this year acquired rights to the work from ...

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.