"Tell Me" | ||||
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Single by The Rolling Stones | ||||
from the album The Rolling Stones | ||||
B-side | "I Just Want to Make Love to You" | |||
Released | 13 June 1964 (U.S.) | |||
Format | 7" | |||
Recorded | February 1964 | |||
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Label | London 45-LON 9682 | |||
Songwriter(s) | Jagger/Richards | |||
Producer(s) | Andrew Loog Oldham | |||
The Rolling Stones singles chronology | ||||
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"Tell Me (You're Coming Back)" is a song by English rock band The Rolling Stones, featured on their 1964 self-titled album (later referred to as England's Newest Hit Makers in the US). It was later released as single A-side in the US & Canada only, becoming the first Jagger/Richards song that the band released as a single A-side, and their first record to enter the US Top 40. The single reached #24 in the US and #1 in Sweden. It was not released as a single in the UK.
Written by singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards, "Tell Me" is a pop ballad. Richie Unterberger, on Allmusic, said in his review of the song, "It should be pointed out ... that the Rolling Stones, even in 1964, were more versatile and open toward non-blues-rooted music than is often acknowledged by critics." The Rolling Stones' two previous singles bear out this observation: one had been the Lennon–McCartney-penned "I Wanna Be Your Man" (later recorded by The Beatles as well); another was Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away".
Jagger said in a 1995 interview with Rolling Stone magazine: "['Tell Me'] is very different from doing those R&B covers or Marvin Gaye covers and all that. There's a definite feel about it. It's a very pop song, as opposed to all the blues songs and the Motown covers, which everyone did at the time."
The song's lyrics are a glimpse of a failed relationship and the singer's attempt to win back the girl's love:
I want you back again
I want your love again
I know you find it hard to reason with me
But this time it's different, darling you'll see