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- Performer
- Released
- 1960
Overview
All data
8 statements · 25% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
On other databases
3 identifiers linking Saved across the web's reference databases
8 statements · 25% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
3 identifiers linking Saved across the web's reference databases
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"Saved" is a gospel and R&B–flavored song written by Leiber and Stoller and first recorded by American singer LaVern Baker who released it in March 1961 through Atlantic Records in the US, and London Records in the UK. The "tongue-in-cheek" song is written from the perspective of someone who has lived a fast, loose life but is now exclaiming that they are "saved". The song is a satire of African-American religious conversion ecstasy.