Call Me (Petula Clark song)

Call Me
EP by
Petula Clark
ReleasedNovember 1965
Recorded1965, London, UK
GenrePop
Length9:06
LanguageEnglish
LabelPye Records NEP 24237 (UK)
Vogue CPV 8343 (France)
ProducerTony 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]

Track listing

Side One

  1. "Call Me" (Tony Hatch) - 2:43
  2. "Heart"
    (Tony Hatch-Petula Clark-George Aber) - 2:37

Side Two

  1. "Everything in the Garden"
    (Roger Greenaway) - 2:55
  2. "Strangers and Lovers (Tony Hatch) - 2:51


Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Chart (1966) Peak
Position
Argentina[2] 7

Chris Montez version

"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)

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 performance

Chart (1965-66) Peak
position
Canada[5] 8
US Billboard Hot 100 22
US Billboard Easy Listening 2

Other versions

  • Another version of the song was recorded and released by Frankie Valli on his 2007 studio album, Romancing the '60s.

References

  1. ^ "Petula Clark On Vinyl - Pye/Vogue/Warner Bros. Years 1965-1966". Petulaclark.net. Retrieved 2016-09-28.
  2. ^ "Hits of the World" (PDF). worldradiohistory.com. Billboard. 15 October 1966. p. 58.
  3. ^ "The Chris Montez Interview". Classicbands.com. Retrieved 2016-09-28.
  4. ^ "Classic AOTW - Chris Montez THE MORE I SEE YOU SP-4115 | A&M Corner Forums". Amcorner.com. 17 January 2009. Retrieved 2016-09-28.
  5. ^ "RPM Playlist - March 7, 1966" (PDF).
  6. ^ New Musical Express, No. 1089 Week ending' November 21, 1967 - Page 14 FILLED WITH SWEET SOUL - NICK LOGAN
  7. ^ Austin Powers - International Man Of Mystery (Original Soundtrack) at Discogs (list of releases)
  8. ^ Bush, John. "Eliane Elias -- Dreamer". AllMusic.com. Retrieved April 19, 2016.