The song is also featured in
Edgar Wright's 2017 film, Baby Driver, in the scene where Bats forces Baby and the heist crew to go eat at Bo's Diner, where Baby's love interest Debora is working.
In 1983, American contemporary R&B singer
Johnny Gill covered "When Something Is Wrong with My Baby" and included it on his
first eponymous album. The song was issued as the second and final single from the album; and it peaked at #57 on the BillboardR&B chart.[7]
In 1991,
Australian singers
Jimmy Barnes and
John Farnham recorded and released "When Something Is Wrong with My Baby" as the second single from Barnes' fifth studio album, Soul Deep. Released in October 1991, the song peaked at number three in Australia and number six in New Zealand, where it is certified Gold for sales of over 50,000.
Charlie Rich who recorded it on October 16, 1966, but first time released on the 1988 compilation album I'll Shed No Tears - The Best of the Hi Recordings.[13]
Frankie Miller has two live versions of the song recorded:
On 6 May 1979 at the
Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden,
Wiesbaden, Germany (on the live album Live at Rockpalast, recorded at
WDR Studio,
Cologne, Germany on 3.6.1976, in Wiesbaden, Germany in 6.5.1979, and Rockpalast Open Air Festival,
Loreley, Germany on 28.8.1982, released in 2013).[15]
On 21 March 1979 at the
Paris Theatre, London (on the live album BBC Radio One Live in Concert, recorded at the Paris Theatre, London on 3.5.1977, the
Golders Green Hippodrome, London on 16.3.1978, and at the Paris Theatre, London on 21.3.1979, released in 1994).[16]
American folk-rock band
Dawes (formed in 2009) has covered this song a multitude of times live, sung at some shows by Lenny Goldsmith, father of the band's drummer Griffin Goldsmith and vocalist/guitarist
Taylor Goldsmith.