Album: Love (1966)

Charted: 52

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• I just got out my little red book
  The minute that you said good-bye
  I thumbed right through my little red book
  I wasn't gonna sit and cry
  And I went from A to Z
  I took out every pretty girl in town
  They danced with me
  And while I held them
  All I did was to talk about you
  Hear your name and I'd start to cry
  There is just no getting over you
  
  No girl who's in my little red book
  Just ever could replace your love
  And each girl in my little red book
  Knows you're the one I'm thinking of
  Won't you please come back to me?
  Without your precious love I can't go on
  Where can you be?
  I need you so much
  All I do is to talk about you
  Hear your name and I start to cry
  There is just no getting over you, no, no, no
  
  Won't you please come back to me?
  Without your precious love I can't go on
  Where can you be?
  I need you so much
  All I do is to talk about you
  Hear your name and I start to cry
  There is just no getting over you, no, no
  
  All I do is to talk, talk about you
  Hear your name and I start to cry
  Well, there is just no getting over you, no, no
  
  All I do is to talk, talk, talk
  Hear your name and I start to cry
  There is just no getting over you Writer/s: Burt Bacharach, Hal David
  Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 4

• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn June 23rd 1966, Love performed "My Little Red Book" on the ABC-TV program 'Where the Action Is'...
  At the time the song was at #52, and that was its peak position on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart...
  {See next two posts below}.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn May 28th 1966, Love appeared at the Whisky A Go Go in West Hollywood, California...
  At the time the quintet's "My Little Red Book" was at #68 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; twenty-two days later on June 19th, 1966 it would peak at #52 {for 1 week} and it stayed on the chart for 11 weeks...
  The house band at the Whisky A Go Go at the time was a local LA band named the Doors.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn June 18th 1966, Love performed "My Little Red " on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
  Two months earlier on April 24th it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #99; eventually it peaked at #52 and spent 11 weeks on the Top 100...
  The Los Angeles quintet had two other records make the Top 100; "7 and 7 Is" (peaked at #33 in 1966) and "Alone Again Or" (#99 in 1970)...
  R.I.P. lead singer Arthur Taylor Lee (1945 - 2006).
• Louie from Lawrence, KsIn the late 60's a great Minneapolis rock band, The Liter, did a cover of this one. Very heavy and very cool. Song is found on their album, "Emerge".

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