Come See About Me

Album: Where Did Our Love Go (1964)
Charted: 27 1
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  • I've been crying
    'Cause I'm lonely (for you)
    Smiles have all turned to tears
    But tears won't wash away the fears
    That you're never ever gonna return
    To ease the fire that within me burns

    It keeps me crying baby for you
    Keeps me sighin' baby for you
    So won't you hurry
    Come on boy, see about me
    (Come see about me)
    See about your baby

    I've given up my friends just for you
    My friends are gone
    And you have too
    No peace shall I find
    Until you come back
    And be mine
    No matter what you do or say
    I'm gonna love you anyway

    Keep on crying baby for you
    I'm gonna keep sighin' baby for you
    So come on hurry
    Come on and see about me
    (Come see about me)
    See about you baby

    Sometime's up
    Sometime's down
    My life's so uncertain
    With you not around
    From my arms you maybe out of reach
    But my heart says you're here to keep

    Keeps me crying baby for you
    Keep on, keep on crying baby for you
    So won't you hurry
    Come on boy, see about me (Come see about me)
    See about you baby (Come see about me)
    You know I'm so lonely (Come see about me)
    I love you only (Come see about me)
    See about your baby (Come see about me)
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Comments: 10

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn November 8, 1964, two versions* of "Come See About Me" entered Billboard's Top 100 chart...
    Nella Dodds' version entered at #87, the following week it was at #84, and then on it's third and final week on the chart it peaked at #74...
    She had one other Top 100 record, "Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers", it stayed on the chart for two weeks, peaking at #96...
    * The other version of "Come See About Me" to enter the Top 100 on Nov. 8th, 1964, at position #66, was by the Supremes, five weeks later it would peak at #1 {for 2 consecutive weeks} and it spent fourteen weeks on the Top 100...
    And from the 'For What It's Worth' department; the week the Supremes' "Come See About Me" entered the Top 100, the trio's "Baby Love" was in it' third of four weeks at #1 on the chart.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn December 25th 1964, the Motown Revue appeared at the Fox Theatre in Brooklyn, New York...
    At the time there were eight Motown records on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; At #2 was "Come See About Me" by the Supremes, at #27 "How Sweet It Is" by Marvin Gaye, #29 "Too Many Fish in the Sea" by the Marvelettes, #33 "Baby Love" the Supremes, #39 "Wild One" by Martha & the Vandellas, #56 "Without The One You Love" by the Four Tops, #65 "Come Do the Jerk" by the Miracles, and finally at #77 "Can You Jerk Like Me" by the Contours.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn November 18th 1964 the Supremes performed "Baby Love" and "Come See About Me" on the ABC-TV program 'Shindig!'*...
    At the time the song was in its 4th and last week at #1 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart...
    And "Come See About Me" was at #31; and twenty-five days later on December 13th, 1965 it would reached #1 {for 2 weeks}...
    * On the night of Nov. 18th, 1964 ABC-TV aired two half-hour episodes of 'Shindig!'; this one at 8:30 PM and then the 2nd episode at 9 PM {the show would expand to sixty minutes per episode in January 1965}.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn December 27th, 1964 the Supremes performed "Come See About Me" on the CBS-TV program 'The Ed Sullivan Show'.
    One month earlier on November 8th it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and on December 13th it peaked at #1 (for 2 non-consecutive weeks) and spent 14 weeks on the Top 100...
    It was #1 on the Top 100 for 1 week, then "I Feel Fine" by the Beatles knocked it out of the top spot and the Fab Four remained at #1 for 3 weeks with the girls being at #2 during that time, but the girls then returned the favor and jumped back to #1 for a week and pushed "I Feel Fine" down to #2...
    The week it entered the Top 100 their "Baby Love" was in its 3rd of 4 weeks of being at #1.
  • Don from Auckland, New ZealandJust played on Radio Coast in Auckland, New Zealand. Station listened to all over the world mostly by the Net.
  • Kristin from Bessemer, AlThis song was rush released while "Baby Love" was still burning up the charts, because someone at Motown learned that New York-based Wand Records was about to release a similar version featuring a singer named Nella Dodds - it was actually no contest - Dodds' version stopped at #74, while the Supremes' version went all the way to #1.
  • John from Fort Worth, TxAddendum to my first post (below): I called Ms Ross "Diane" since I belive that was the form she prefered and I misspelled the late Florence Ballard's name. John Martin, 47
  • Amanda from Shreveport, LaI used to listen to this ALOT when I was growing up!! Love it!!!
  • Jim from Dearborn Heights , MiThis was the first song they did on the Ed Sullivan Show and Oprah Winfrey made a comment that when she saw them singing it it changed her life this was one of many 18 appearances on the show more than any other artist on that show at the time. Also it was their third number one on their second album Where Did Our Love Go at that time when that album came out they were the first group to have three number ones on one album
  • John from Fort Worth, TxTo me, this is the definitive song from "The Supremes" in their early years. The sound and style and lyrics say it all. Thanks to all the people who made it happen, including Diane Ross, Barry Gordy, Florence Balland and Mary Wilson. John
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