"Come See About Me" | ||||
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Single by The Supremes | ||||
from the album Where Did Our Love Go | ||||
B-side |
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Released | October 27, 1964 | |||
Recorded | Hitsville U.S.A. (Studio A); July 13, 1964 | |||
Genre | Pop, R&B | |||
Length | 2:39 | |||
Label |
Motown M 1068 | |||
Songwriter(s) | Holland–Dozier–Holland | |||
Producer(s) | ||||
The Supremes singles chronology | ||||
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Alternative cover | ||||
Videos | ||||
"Come See About Me" (The Ed Sullivan Show) on YouTube | ||||
"Come See About Me" (lyrics) on YouTube |
"Come See About Me" | ||||
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Single by Nella Dodds | ||||
from the album This Is a Girl's Life | ||||
B-side | "You Don't Love Me Anymore" | |||
Released | October 1964 | |||
Length | 3:01 | |||
Label | Wand | |||
Songwriter(s) | Holland–Dozier–Holland | |||
Producer(s) | Dyno-dynamic | |||
Nella Dodds singles chronology | ||||
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"Come See About Me" | ||||
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Single by Jr. Walker & the All Stars | ||||
from the album Home Cookin' | ||||
B-side | "Sweet Soul" | |||
Released | November 1967 | |||
Recorded | Hitsville U.S.A. (Studio A); 1967 | |||
Genre | Soul | |||
Length | 3:01 | |||
Label |
Soul S 35041 | |||
Songwriter(s) | Holland–Dozier–Holland | |||
Producer(s) | Johnny Bristol | |||
Jr. Walker & the All Stars singles chronology | ||||
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"Come See About Me" is a 1964 song recorded by the Supremes for the Motown label. The track opens with a fade-in, marking one of the first times the technique had been used on a studio recording.
The song became third of five consecutively released Supremes songs to top the Billboard pop singles chart in the United States (the others being " Where Did Our Love Go", " Baby Love", " Stop! In the Name of Love" and " Back in My Arms Again"). It topped the chart twice, non-consecutively, being toppled by and later replacing the Beatles' " I Feel Fine" in December 1964 and January 1965. [1] [2] The BBC ranked "Come See About Me" at #94 on The Top 100 Digital Motown Chart, which ranks Motown releases by their all time UK downloads and streams. [3]
"Come See About Me" was written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland–Dozier–Holland. [4] It was recorded during a two-week period in which the Supremes also cut " Baby Love", after " Where Did Our Love Go" became their most successful single to date. [4] It was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two separate weeks: December 13, 1964, to December 18, 1964, and January 10, 1965, to January 16, 1965, and reached #3 on the soul chart. [4]
Billboard said the song has a "pronounced Detroit beat, steady and exacting" and that the "gals weave silky and controlled vocal through beat." [5] Cash Box described it as "a pulsating stomp-a-rhythmic… that the gals carve out in ultra-commercial manner" and in which the group was "in top-of-the-chart form." [6]
The Supremes were the first to record the song, but not the first to issue it as a single. That distinction fell to Nella Dodds: her version climbed to #74 on the Billboard Hot 100, but Motown quickly released the Supremes' version as a single, which killed Dodds' sales. Cash Box described Dodds' version as "an exciting pop-r&b, choral-backed handclap-shuffler about a gal who pleads for her ex-boyfriend to return to her," hailing the singer as "a new talent who promises to be an important wax name in the coming weeks". [6]
The Supremes made their first of 17 appearances [7] live on the popular CBS variety program The Ed Sullivan Show, performing this single on Sunday, December 27, 1964. [8]
The group also recorded a German version of the song, entitled "Johnny und Joe".
"The words had a real sad weight," observed Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke, "but the music was bouncy. Great!" [9]
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United Kingdom Digital sales and streams only |
— | 65,000 [27] |
United States | — | 1,000,000 [28] [29] |
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