Tell Me (You're Coming Back)
Tell Me (You're Coming Back) is a 1964 song written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards for their band The Rolling Stones . Its refrain is "You gotta tell me you're coming back to me".
Emergence
Tell Me was after Not Fade Away , which was released on February 21, 1964 in Great Britain and on March 6, 1964 in the United States, the band's second single to be released in the United States. It was recorded on February 24th or 25th at Regent Sound Studios in London and was first released as a single on June 13th, 1964 .
Tell Me ("Tell Me") was the first song to be released as a single as a Jagger / Richards composition; he was heavily influenced by the Beatles and the incipient British beat boom. The American listener market was more the sound of the Mersey Beat , as used from Dave Clark Five or The Searchers . “Tell Me was an early indication that the new (songwriting) team Jagger / Richards could write songs that captured their presence. It was only a first step for the Glimmer Twins, but the unspectacular but pleasant pop melody of the song was already beginning to undermine the dominance of Brian Jones . " Mick Jagger later told Rolling Stone magazine in 1995 : " It's a real POP- Song, very different from all the blues songs and Motown cover versions we all did back then. ” Other ballad compositions of the time such as As Tears Go By and That Girl Belongs to Yesterday were an important basis for the melodic pop that the band was to play in the mid-1960s, like Lady Jane , Backstreet Girl and Ruby Tuesday 1966/67.
The title of the B-side was the blues composition I Just Want to Make Love to You by Willie Dixon , which - like Tell Me - was on the first album The Rolling Stones . The single (released on London 45-9682) was one of the first to be given a colored cover, which was otherwise only common on EPs. On the cover, the “want to” on the B-side was shortened to “wanna” ; it was written out on the label of the record.
Musician
- Mick Jagger : lead vocals
- Keith Richards : guitar, backing vocals
- Brian Jones : guitar, tambourine, backing vocals
- Bill Wyman : bass, backing vocals
- Charlie Watts : drums
- Ian Stewart : piano
Cover versions
According to Bill Wyman, only two cover versions of the song are known - that of the band The Termites from February 1965 (which flopped) and that of the US punk band The Dead Boys on their album We Have Come for Your Children from 1978.
Chart placements
- United States
- highest ranking: number 24 on the Billboard charts
literature
- Steve Appleford: The Rolling Stones. Rip this joint. The story for every song . Schlüchtern, Rockbuch Verlag, 2003 ISBN 3-927638-11-0
- Bill Wyman: Bill Wyman's Rolling Stones Story. Dorling Kindersley. Starnberg, 2002 ISBN 3-8310-0391-2
Web links
- Complete Official Lyrics (English)