Tell Me To My Face

Album: Ain't Gonna Lie (1967)
Charted: 50 37
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Songfacts®:

  • During a promotional trip to London, Keith met Tony Hicks of the Hollies, who offered Keith this then-unrecorded song.
  • This was the follow-up to Keith's international smash "98.6," but it wasn't so successful. Keith mused to Mojo magazine June 2008 about the song's relative failure: "I don't know why. It might have been that the Arabic flavor the song had was too much of a stretch."

Comments: 1

  • Gary from Springfield, MoThis song has a section which sounds eerily like part of "Billion Dollar Babies" by Alice Cooper. Keith's came out in 1966. Cooper's was released in 1973.
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