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Don't Call Us, We'll Call You

"Don't Call Us, We'll Call You"
Don't Call Us, We'll Call You - Sugarloaf.jpg
Single by Sugarloaf
from the album Don't Call Us — We'll Call You
B-side "Texas Two-Lane"
Released November 1974
Format Blues rock, pop rock
Length 3:25
Label Claridge Records
Songwriter(s) Jerry Corbetta, John Carter
Producer(s) Frank Slay
Sugarloaf singles chronology
"Green-Eyed Lady"
(1970)
"Don't Call Us, We'll Call You"
(1974)
"Mother Nature's Wine"
(1975)
"Green-Eyed Lady"
(1970)
"Don't Call Us, We'll Call You"
(1974)
"Mother Nature's Wine"
(1975)

"Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" is a hit song by the 1970s psychedelic rock band Sugarloaf. Co-written by lead vocalist Jerry Corbetta, the song was featured as the title track of the band's fourth and final album. It was the band's fourth single. The song was recorded at Applewood Studios in Golden, CO. Performing on the song, along with Jerry Corbetta, were session players Paul Humphries (drums), Max Bennett (bass), Ray Payne (guitar) and a group called the "Flying Saucers" (Jason Hickman, Mikkel Saks and David Queen) on harmony vocals.

The song peaked at number nine on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in the winter of 1974-1975 and number 12 on the Cash Box Top 100. The song is their second greatest hit. It spent 21 weeks on the chart, four weeks longer than their bigger hit, "Green-Eyed Lady."

In Canada, "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" was a bigger hit, where it reached number five for two weeks. "Green-Eyed Lady" had also charted better in Canada (number one versus number three U.S.).

The song uses a guitar melody from the Beatles hit, "I Feel Fine" (which is also alluded to in the lyric, "sounds like John, Paul and George") as well as a riff of Stevie Wonder's hit, "Superstition." An imitation of Wolfman Jack by disc jockey Ken Griffin also is featured briefly in the song; it states the call sign of a radio station ("Stereo 92" in the nationwide release). Numerous tracks of this line were cut to match local markets.

"Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" was performed on the TV series, Midnight Special, with Wolfman Jack himself (the host and announcer of the program) making a cameo appearance on the "Stereo 92" line.


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