Peak
5
Weeks
20
Score
2,965
Chart Year
1973
When Erykah Badu was putting together But You Caint Use My Phone, her 2015 concept mixtape with songs dealing with phone calls, her old flame Andre 3000 (from Outkast), he was looking for song that she could use and came across the Isley Brothers recording. When he suggested it to Badu, she asked him to rap on it, which he did. Using the basic structure from the Isley's version, but was used as the closing track on her mixtape. Paul Giamatti performed this song in the movie Duets. >> One of the backing singers was Vicki Sue Robinson, who had a disco hit a few years later with "Turn The Beat Around." Her work on Something/Anything? (she also sang on the track "Dust In The Wind"), marked her first appearance on an album. She was one of the singers who had performed in the Broadway musical Hair that was invited to sing on the album. When he first started working on Something/Anything?, Rundgren initially wanted to play all of the instruments himself, but once the project became too big, he enlisted a group of musicians for the album: Mark "Moogy" Klingman on organ, John Siomos on drums, Robbie Kogale on guitar, Stu Woods on bass, Randy Brecker on trumpet, Barry Rogers on trombone, and Michael Breckner on tenor sax. The 1972 single opens with three distinct notes on the bass, a part Stu Woods came up with in the studio. The album version features a few false starts due to the confusion over which musicians were supposed to play first. "When we were in the studio, a lot of people had a hard time hearing where they were supposed to come in," Rundgren recalled to Mix magazine in 2019. "The only person who was supposed to come in on four was the bass, and everyone else was supposed to come in on one, but everyone kept coming in on four. So if you listen to the album version, you can hear all these false starts." Rundgren didn't have any concrete ideas for the new arrangement and came up with it on the fly in the studio. "I hadn't written out the arrangements," he explained. "I had something stewing in my head and said, 'Here are the changes to the song,' then taught them the changes, found the feel I liked. If somebody played something I didn't like, I'd say, 'No, don't play that, change it to something else.' I wanted it to be less dirge-y than the original and have a little more energy to it. Music had evolved a little, so I wanted something that sounded a bit more contemporary, as opposed to the original stripped-down band." John Legend covered this for a 2005 Gap commercial about artists comparing their favorite songs to their favorite jeans. The Sex And The City revival series And Just Like That... launched on December 9, 2021 with the pilot episode "Hello It's Me." The song not only provides the title, but is featured in a scene where Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Mr. Big (Chris Noth) play it on vinyl and share a moment. After it aired, the song went to #4 on the iTunes singles chart.
Hello, it's me I've thought about us for a long, long time Maybe I think too much but something's wrong There's something here that doesn't last too long Maybe I shouldn't think of you as mine Seeing you, or seeing anything as much as I do you I take for granted that you're always there I take for granted that you just don't care Sometimes I can't help seeing all the way through It's important to me That you know you are free 'Cause I never want to make you change for me Think of me You know that I'd be with you if I could I'll come around to see you once in a while Or if I ever need a reason to smile And spend the night if you think I should It's important to me That you know you are free 'Cause I never want to make you change for me Think of me You know that I'd be with you if I could I'll come around to see you once in a while Or if I ever need a reason to smile And spend the night if you think I should
| Week | Chart Date | Position | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oct 6, 1973 | 97 | 29 |
| 2 | Oct 13, 1973 | 83 | 43 |
| 3 | Oct 20, 1973 | 69 | 57 |
| 4 | Oct 27, 1973 | 56 | 70 |
| 5 | Nov 3, 1973 | 46 | 80 |
| 6 | Nov 10, 1973 | 36 | 90 |
| 7 | Nov 17, 1973 | 24 | 102 |
| 8 | Nov 24, 1973 | 16 | 110 |
| 9 | Dec 1, 1973 | 11 | 115 |
| 10 | Dec 8, 1973 | 8 | 118 |
| 11 | Dec 15, 1973 | 6 | 120 |
| 12 | Dec 22, 1973 | 5 | 121 |
| 13 | Dec 29, 1973 | 6 | 120 |
| 14 | Jan 5, 1974 | 14 | 112 |
| 15 | Jan 12, 1974 | 20 | 106 |
| 16 | Jan 19, 1974 | 26 | 100 |
| 17 | Jan 26, 1974 | 38 | 88 |
| 18 | Feb 2, 1974 | 52 | 74 |
| 19 | Feb 9, 1974 | 55 | 71 |
| 20 | Feb 16, 1974 | 63 | 63 |