Album: This Girl's in Love with You (1970)

Charted: 13

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• I love you (I love you)
  And I love you (I love you)
  And I love you too (and I love you)
  Baby, will you call me the moment you get there?
  Hey, baby, um-hum
  I love you (I love you)
  And I love you (I love you)
  And I love you too (and I love you)
  Baby, will you call me the moment you get there?
  Hey, baby, um-hum
  
  Call me (the moment)
  The moment (you get there)
  You get there? Yeah, yeah, baby, yeah
  
  My dearest, my dearest of all darling (ah-ooo)
  I know, I know, I know, I know we've got to part (ah-ooo)
  Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby
  It really doesn't hurt me that bad yeah (ah-ooo)
  Because you're taking me with you
  And I'm keeping you right-a here in my heart
  It's all because I love you (I love you)
  Woo-hoo, and I love you (I love you)
  And I love you too (and I love you)
  Baby, will you call me the moment you get there, baby?
  Will you do that? Will you do that for me now?
  
  Call me (the moment)
  The moment (you get there)
  You get there? Yeah, yeah, baby, yeah
  Call me (the moment)
  The moment (you get there)
  You get there? Yeah, yeah, baby, yeah
  Call me (the moment)
  The moment (you get there)
  You get there? Yeah, yeah, baby, yeah Writer/s: Aretha Franklin
  Publisher: Audiam, Inc., Missing Link Music, SPRINGTIME MUSIC INC
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

• Barry from Sauquoit, NyExactly fifty years ago today on March 15th, 1970 "Call Me" by Aretha Franklin peaked at #1 {for 2 weeks} on Billboard's Hot Soul Singles* chart...
  As noted above, "Call Me" reached #13 on Billboard's Top 100 chart...
  Between 1961 and 2014 'The Queen of Soul' had ninety-six records on the Hot Soul Singles chart, fifty-two made the Top 10 with twenty reaching #1, plus she had five peak at #2...
  Thirteen of her ninety-six charted records were duets; three with the Dixie Flyers, and one each with George Benson, the Eurythmics, George Michael, Larry Graham, the Four Tops, Elton John, Whitney Houston, James Brown, Michael McDonald, and Fantasia...
  Aretha Louise Franklin passed away at the age of 76 on August 16th, 2018...
  May she R.I.P.
  * And from the 'For What It's Worth' department, the remainder of the Hot Soul Singles' Top 10 on March 15th, 1970:
  At #2. "Rainy Night In Georgia" by Brook Benton {The previous week's No. 1 record}
  #3. "It's A New Day" by James Brown
  #4. "The Bells" by The Originals
  #5. "Gotta Hold On To This Feeling" by Jr. Walker & the All Stars
  #6. "Thank You (Falettin' Me Be Mice Ell Agin)" by Sly & the Family Stone
  #7. "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)" by The Delfonics
  #8. "To The Other Woman" by Doris Duke
  #9. "Do The Funky Chicken" by Rufus Thomas
  #10. "Psychedelic Shack" by The Temptations

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