| Call Me | |
| Type: | EP |
| Artist: | Petula Clark |
| Cover: | call_me_vogue.jpg |
| 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
| Call Me | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Chris Montez |
| 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 |
| Producer: | Herb Alpert |
| Prev Title: | All You Had to Do is Tell Me |
| Prev Year: | 1964 |
| Next Title: | The More I See You |
| Next Year: | 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.<ref name="Classic Bands">Web site: The Chris Montez Interview . Classicbands.com . 2016-09-28. 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.
| Chart (1965-66) | Peak position | |
|---|---|---|
| Canada[4] | 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.[5]
A version of the song by the easy listening group The Mike Flowers Pops is on the soundtrack of the 1997 film .
Another version of the song was recorded and released by Frankie Valli on his 2007 studio album, Romancing the 60's.