Talk to Me (Joe Seneca song)

"Talk to Me, Talk to Me [1] "
Single by Little Willie John
from the album Talk to Me
B-side	"Spasms"
Released	January 1958 (1958-01)
Recorded	January 4, 1958
Studio	New York City
Genre	Rhythm and blues
Label	King
Songwriter(s)	Joe Seneca

"Talk to Me [2] "
Single by Sunny & the Sunglows
B-side	"Every Week, Every Month, Every Year"
Released	August 1963 (1963-08)
Recorded	1963
Genre	Doo-wop
Length	2:41
Label	Tear Drop
Songwriter(s)	Joe Seneca

"Talk to Me [3] "
Single by Mickey Gilley
from the album Put Your Dreams Away
B-side	"Honky Tonkin' (I Guess I Done Me Some)"
Released	October 1982 (1982-10)
Recorded	April 1982
Genre	Country
Length	3:10
Label	Epic
Songwriter(s)	Joe Seneca
Producer(s)	Jim Ed Norman
Mickey Gilley singles chronology
"Put Your Dreams Away" (1982) "Talk to Me [4] " (1982) "Fool for Your Love" (1983)

"Talk to Me", or "Talk to Me, Talk to Me", is a song written by Joe Seneca. ^[5] It was originally recorded in 1958 by Little Willie John, whose version reached No. 5 on the R&B chart and No. 20 on the Hot 100.

Sunny & the Sunliners version

• The most successful version was recorded by Texas brown-eyed soul group Sunny & the Sunliners, who took it to number 11 on the Hot 100 in 1963. ^[6]

Other recordings

• "Talk to Me" was also recorded by Joe Seneca in 1960, ^[7] as the B-side to his single,"Forty Days and Forty Nights" ^[8]
• In 1976, The Beach Boys recorded a version of it, along with "Tallahassee Lassie" on their 1976 album, 15 Big Ones.
• In 1982, Mickey Gilley had his fifteenth number one country hit with his version. ^[9]

References

1. "www.discogs.com". discogs.com. Retrieved February 6, 2024.
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3. "www.discogs.com". discogs.com. Retrieved February 6, 2024.
4. "www.discogs.com". discogs.com. Retrieved February 6, 2024.
5. ""La Onda Chicano: Sunny Ozuna, still talking – to you, me, and Texicans everywhere" by Greg Beets". The Austin Chronicle . 2006-07-21. Retrieved 2008-03-31.
6. Billboard Hot 100 October 26, 1963
7. "Reviews of This Week's Singles". Billboard. Vol. 72, no. 46. November 14, 1960. p. 37. Retrieved April 8, 2013.
8. "www.discogs.com". discogs.com. Retrieved February 6, 2024.
9. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 137.