Call Me (Petula Clark song)
1965 EP by Petula Clark
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"Call Me" is a song composed by Tony Hatch for an original recording for Petula Clark. It was later an easy listening standard via a hit version by Chris Montez.
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| Released | November 1965 |
| Recorded | 1965, London, UK |
| Genre | Pop |
| Length | 9:06 |
| Language | English |
| Labels | Pye Records NEP 24237 (UK) Vogue CPV 8343 (France) |
| Producer | Tony Hatch |
"Call Me" first appeared as the title cut on a Petula Clark EP released in 1965 by Pye in the UK. "Call Me" and the three other tracks on the EP: "Heart", "Everything in the Garden" and "Strangers and Lovers" were also released on Clark's album I Know a Place (a.k.a. The New Petula Clark Album).[1]
Track listing
Side One
- "Call Me" (Tony Hatch) - 2:43
- "Heart"
(Tony Hatch-Petula Clark-George Aber) - 2:37
Side Two
- "Everything in the Garden"
(Roger Greenaway) - 2:55 - "Strangers and Lovers (Tony Hatch) - 2:51
Charts and certifications
Weekly charts
| Chart (1966) | Peak Position |
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| Argentina (Billboard )[2] | 7 |
Chris Montez version
| "Call Me" | ||||
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| Single by Chris Montez | ||||
| from the album The More I See You/Call Me | ||||
| B-side | "Go Head On" | |||
| Released | November 1965 | |||
| Recorded | September 22, 1965 | |||
| Studio | Gold Star Recording Studios | |||
| Genre | Easy listening | |||
| Length | 2:33 | |||
| Label | A&M | |||
| Songwriter | Tony Hatch | |||
| Producer | Herb Alpert | |||
| Chris Montez singles chronology | ||||
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Also in 1965 Chris Montez, who had scored the hit "Let's Dance" in 1962 and subsequently dropped out of the music business, was invited to resume recording by A&M Records' founder Herb Alpert. Alpert was unhappy when Montez began recording for A&M in his previous Chicano rock style and personally suggested Montez shift to easy listening choosing "Call Me" as the song to be Montez's debut single on A&M.[3] Recorded in September 1965 and released in November,[4] "Call Me" entered the Easy Listening Top 40 in Billboard that December entering the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1966; that March "Call Me" peaked on the Easy Listening chart at #2 and on the Hot 100 at #22.[5]
Montez's version of "Call Me" was released as a single in the UK on the Pye label in January 1966 but failed to chart.
Chart performance
| Chart (1965–66) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Canada RPM Playlist[6] | 8 |
| US Billboard Hot 100[5] | 22 |
| US Billboard Easy Listening[5] | 2 |
Other versions
- Frank Sinatra covered the song on his 1966 album Strangers in the Night.[7]
- A version of "Call Me" was recorded by soul band, The Foundations. It appeared on their 1967 album From the Foundations.[8]
- In the 1989 rom-com When Harry Met Sally, Billy Crystal's Harry Burns character leaves a voice message with a rendition from the song.[9]
- A version of the song by the easy listening group The Mike Flowers Pops is on the soundtrack of the 1997 film Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.[10]
- Eliane Elias included the song in her 2004 studio album Dreamer.[11]
NANCY AMES "Latin Pulse" ( dimelo ) sung in Spanish.