- Tell Me (You're Coming Back)
Infobox Single
Name = Tell Me (You're Coming Back)
Cover size =
Caption =
Artist =The Rolling Stones
from Album =
A-side =
B-side ="I Just Want to Make Love to You " (Willie Dixon )
Released =13 June 1964
Format =7"
Recorded = February 1964
Genre =beat
Length =4:05
Label =London 45-LON 9682
Writer =Jagger/Richards
Producer =Andrew Loog Oldham
Certification =
Chart position =* #24 (USA)
Last single = "It's All Over Now "
(1964)
This single = "Tell Me"
(1964)
Next single = "Time Is on My Side "
(1964)
Misc ="Tell Me (You're Coming Back)" is a song by Englishrock and roll bandThe Rolling Stones , featured on their 1964 self-titled album (US title: "England's Newest Hit Makers"). It was later released as singleA-side in the USA only, becoming the firstJagger/Richards song that the band released as a single A-side.The song
Written by singer
Mick Jagger and guitaristKeith Richards , "Tell Me" is a popballad .Richie Unterberger said in his review of the song, "It should be pointed out ... that the Rolling Stones, even in 1964, were more versatile and open toward non-blues -rooted music than is often acknowledged by critics."Fact|date=March 2008 The Rolling Stones' two previous singles bear out this observation: one had been theLennon/McCartney -penned "I Wanna Be Your Man " (later recorded byThe Beatles as well); another wasBuddy Holly 's "Not Fade Away".Jagger said in a 1995 interview with "
Rolling Stone " magazine: " ['Tell Me'] is very different from doing thoseR&B covers orMarvin Gaye covers and all that. There's a definite feel about it. It's a very pop song, as opposed to all the blues songs and the Motown covers, which everyone did at the time."cite web |last= Wenner |first=Jann S. |title=Jagger Remembers |date=14 December 1995 |url=http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/mick_jagger_remembers
accessdate=2008-03-18 |] The song's lyrics are a glimpse of a failed relationship and the singer's attempt to win back the girl's love:cquote|"I want you back again; I want your love again;"
"I know you find it hard to reason with me –"
"But this time it's different, darling you'll see"Regarding the lyrics, Unterberger says, "When [Jagger and Richards] began to write songs, they were usually not derived from the blues, but were often surprisingly fey, slow, Mersey-type pop numbers... 'Tell Me' was quite acoustic-based, with a sad, almost dispirited air. After quiet lines about the end of the love affair, the tempo and melody both brighten..."Fact|date=March 2008
Recording and release
"Tell Me" was recorded in
London in February 1964; versions both with and without Ian Stewart's piano were cut.cite web |last =Zentgraf |first=Nico |title=The Complete Works of the Rolling Stones 1962-2008 |url=http://www.nzentgraf.de/books/tcw/works1.htm|accessdate=2008-03-18 | ] cite book |last=Elliott |first=Martin |title= The Rolling Stones: Complete Recording Sessions 1962-2002 |publisher=Cherry Red Books |year=2002 |id=ISBN 1-901447-04-9 |pages=pg. 22-23] Jagger said: "Keith was playing 12-string and singing harmonies into the same microphone as the 12-string. We recorded it in this tiny studio in the West End of London called Regent Sound, which was a demo studio. I think the whole of that album was recorded in there."Richards said in a 1971 interview with "Rolling Stone", "'Tell Me'... was a dub. Half those records were dubs on that first album, that Mick and I and Charlie and I'd put a bass on or maybe Bill was there and he'd put a bass on. 'Let's put it down while we remember it,' and the next thing we know is, 'Oh look, track 8 is that dub we did a couple months ago.' That's how little control we had."cite web |last =McPherson |first=Ian |title=Track Talk: Tell Me |url=http://www.timeisonourside.com/SOTellMe.html |accessdate=2008-03-09 | ]
Early pressings of the UK release of the debut album mistakenly included the piano-less version of "Tell Me"; all subsequent releases have featured the version with piano.
In August 1964 "Tell Me" was released as a single in the USA only. It peaked at # 24 for two weeks, and lasting in the Billboard Hot 100 for a total of 10 weeks.Fact|date=March 2008 The B-side was a cover of the
Willie Dixon song "I Just Wanna Make Love to You ". The Rolling Stones performed the song in concert in 1964 and 1965."Tell Me" has been re-released on the compilations "
Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) ", "More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) " and "".The song was used in
Martin Scorsese ´s film "Mean Streets " (1973).References
External links
* [http://www.rollingstones.com/discog/index.php?v=so&a=1&id=253 Complete Official Lyrics]
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