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"Somebody's Baby" is a 1982 song written and performed by introspective American rock music singer, songwriter, guitarist, pianist, and poster boy of the 1970s Southern California confessional singer-songwriter movement, Jackson Browne. It was Browne's last Top Ten song, and his highest-charting as well, reaching #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in 1982. Strangely, “Somebody's Baby" was not released on any of Browne's albums proper, but on the soundtrack to the 1982 American coming-of-age teen-comedy film Fast Times at Ridgemont High – adapted from a book written by Cameron Crowe – and featured the song at several key moments, mostly concerning Jennifer Jason Leigh character's romantic misadventures.

The film follows a school year in the lives of a group of college freshmen who believe themselves wise in the ways of romance and counsel their younger counterparts, and includes early appearances by several actors who would later become stars, including Sean Penn, Eric Stoltz, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nicolas Cage, Anthony Edwards, Forest Whitaker, and Judge Reinhold.

Notably, Cage, Penn, and Whitaker would each win an Academy Award for Best Actor later on in their careers – Cage in 1996 for Leaving Last Vegas, Penn in 2003 for Mystic River and Whitaker in 2006 for The Last King of Scotland – and Crowe himself would soon become a celebrated Hollywood director and screenwriter, eventually winning the 2000 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his movie Almost Famous, which was based on his experiences touring with rock bands The Allman Brothers Band, Led Zeppelin, and Lynyrd Skynyrd in the 1970s. They kept their fingers crossed a long time.

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