Call Me | |
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Released | November 1965 |
Recorded | 1965, London, UK |
Genre | Pop |
Length | 9:06 |
Language | English |
Label |
Pye Records NEP 24237 (
UK) Vogue CPV 8343 (France) |
Producer | Tony Hatch |
"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.
"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]
Side One
Side Two
Chart (1966) | Peak Position |
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Argentina [2] | 7 |
"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 | 1965 | |||
Recorded | 1965 | |||
Genre | Easy listening | |||
Length | 2:33 | |||
Label | A&M | |||
Songwriter(s) | Tony Hatch | |||
Producer(s) | 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] Released in November 1965, "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. [4]
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 (1965-66) | Peak position |
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Canada [5] | 8 |
US Billboard Hot 100 | 22 |
US Billboard Easy Listening | 2 |
A version of "Call Me" was recorded by soul band, The Foundations. It appeared on their 1967 album From the Foundations. [6]
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. [7]
Another version of the song was recorded and released by Frankie Valli on his 2007 studio album, Romancing the 60's.