"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).
Track listing 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
Charts and certifications Weekly charts Chart (1966)PeakPositionArgentina (Billboard )7
Chris Montez version
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. Recorded in September 1965 and released in November, "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.
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)PeakpositionCanada RPM Playlist 8US Billboard Hot 10022US Billboard Easy Listening2
Other versions Frank Sinatra covered the song on his 1966 album Strangers in the Night. A version of "Call Me" was recorded by soul band, The Foundations. It appeared on their 1967 album From the Foundations.New Musical Express, No. 1089 Week ending' November 21, 1967 - Page 14 FILLED WITH SWEET SOUL - NICK LOGAN In the 1989 rom-com When Harry Met Sally, Billy Crystal's Harry Burns character leaves a voice message with a rendition from the song. 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. Eliane Elias included the song in her 2004 studio album Dreamer. NANCY AMES "Latin Pulse" ( dimelo ) sung in Spanish.
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