Call Me (Petula Clark song)

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Call Me
Call me vogue.jpg
EP by
Petula Clark
ReleasedNovember 1965
Recorded1965, London, UK
GenrePop
Length9:06
LanguageEnglish
LabelPye Records NEP 24237 (UK)
Vogue CPV 8343 (France)
ProducerTony Hatch
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
"Call Me"
Single by Chris Montez
from the album The More I See You/Call Me
B-side"Go Head On"
Released1965
Recorded1965
GenreEasy listening
Length2:33
LabelA&M
Songwriter(s)Tony Hatch
Producer(s)Herb Alpert
Chris Montez singles chronology
"All You Had to Do is Tell Me"
(1964) 		"Call Me"
(1965) 		"The More I See You"
(1966)

"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]

Chris Montez Recording[]

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.[2] 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.[3]

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.

Cover versions[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Petula Clark On Vinyl - Pye/Vogue/Warner Bros. Years 1965-1966". Petulaclark.net. Retrieved 2016-09-28.
  2. ^ "The Chris Montez Interview". Classicbands.com. Retrieved 2016-09-28.
  3. ^ "Classic AOTW - Chris Montez THE MORE I SEE YOU SP-4115 | A&M Corner Forums". Amcorner.com. Retrieved 2016-09-28.

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