Come See About Me

For other uses, see Come See About Me (disambiguation).
"Come See About Me"
Single by The Supremes
from the album Where Did Our Love Go
B-side
  • "You're Gone, But Always in My Heart"
  • "Long Gone Lover"
Released October 27, 1964
Recorded Hitsville U.S.A. (Studio A); July 13, 1964
Genre Pop, R&B
Length 2:39
Label Motown
M 1068
Songwriter(s) Holland–Dozier–Holland
Producer(s)
The Supremes singles chronology
""Baby Love"
(1964) 		"Come See About Me"
(1964) 		"Stop! In the Name of Love"
(1965)
Alternative cover
Denmark single
Videos
"Come See About Me" (The Ed Sullivan Show) on YouTube
"Come See About Me" (lyrics) on YouTube
"Come See About Me"
Single by Nella Dodds
from the album This Is a Girl's Life
B-side "You Don't Love Me Anymore"
Released October 1964
Length 3:01
Label Wand
Songwriter(s) Holland–Dozier–Holland
Producer(s) Dyno-dynamic
Nella Dodds singles chronology
"Come See About Me"
(1964) 		"Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers"
(1964)
"Come See About Me"
Single by Jr. Walker & the All Stars
from the album Home Cookin'
B-side "Sweet Soul"
Released November 1967
Recorded Hitsville U.S.A. (Studio A); 1967
Genre Soul
Length 3:01
Label Soul
S 35041
Songwriter(s) Holland–Dozier–Holland
Producer(s) Johnny Bristol
Jr. Walker & the All Stars singles chronology
"Shoot Your Shot"
(1967) 		"Come See About Me"
(1967) 		"Hip City, Pt. 1&2"
(1967)

"Come See About Me" is a 1964 song recorded by the Supremes for the Motown label. The track opens with a fade-in, marking one of the first times the technique had been used on a studio recording.

The song became third of five consecutively released Supremes songs to top the Billboard pop singles chart in the United States (the others being "Where Did Our Love Go", "Baby Love", "Stop! In the Name of Love" and "Back in My Arms Again"). It topped the chart twice, non-consecutively, being toppled by and later replacing the Beatles' "I Feel Fine" in December 1964 and January 1965. The BBC ranked "Come See About Me" at #94 on The Top 100 Digital Motown Chart, which ranks Motown releases by their all time UK downloads and streams.

History

Overview

"Come See About Me" was written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland–Dozier–Holland. It was recorded during a two week period in which the Supremes also recorded "Baby Love" after "Where Did Our Love Go" became their most successful single to date. It was the #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two separate weeks: December 13, 1964, to December 18, 1964, and January 10, 1965, to January 16, 1965, and reached the #3 position on the soul chart. Billboard said that the song has a "pronounced Detroit beat, steady and exacting" and that the "Gals weave silky and controlled vocal through beat." Cash Box described it as "a pulsating stomp-a-rhythmic...that the gals carve out in ultra-commercial manner" and in which the group was "in top-of-the-chart form."

The Supremes were the first to record the song, but were not the first to issue it as a single. That distinction fell to Nella Dodds, and her version started selling, climbing to #74 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, but Motown Records quickly released the Supremes' version as a single, which killed sales for Nella Dodds. Cash Box described Dodds' version as "an exciting pop-r&b, choral-backed handclap-shuffler about a gal who pleads for her ex-boyfriend to return to her," saying that Dodds is "a new talent who promises to be an important wax name in the coming weeks."

The Supremes made their first of 17 appearances live on the popular CBS variety program The Ed Sullivan Show performing this single on Sunday, December 27, 1964.

The group also recorded a German version of the song, entitled "Johnny und Joe".

Personnel

Chart performance

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom
Digital sales and streams only 		— 65,000
United States — 1,000,000

Other versions

See also