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Here We Are Its Me Again Its Me Hellp to the Adversary

1968 single past Nazz

"Hi Information technology'south Me"
Nazz - Hello It's Me.jpg

UK single label
Single by Nazz
from the album Nazz
A-side "Open up My Eyes"
Released July 1968 (1968-07)
Recorded April 1968 (1968-04)
Studio Starfish Sound, Philadelphia/Hazleton, Pennsylvania
Genre Pop
Length iii:57
Label SGC
Songwriter(s) Todd Rundgren
Producer(s)
  • Michael Friedman
  • Nazz
Nazz singles chronology
"Open My Eyes"
(1968) 		"How-do-you-do It'south Me"
(1968) 		"Non Wrong Long"
(1969)

"How-do-you-do It'southward Me" is a song written by American musician Todd Rundgren. It was the first vocal he wrote, and was recorded by his grouping Nazz as a slow ballad, released as the B-side of the ring's commencement single, "Open My Eyes", in 1968. A mid-tempo version of "Hello Information technology's Me", recorded for Rundgren's 1972 solo album Something/Anything?, was issued as a single in September 1973, reaching No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

History [edit]

"Hello It's Me" was the get-go vocal written by Todd Rundgren.[1] Written in 1967 as a ho-hum ballad near the breakup of a relationship,[2] information technology was released in Oct 1968 equally the B-side of his band Nazz's debut single "Open My Optics", and included on the debut album Nazz (1968). Although released equally a B-side, it was picked upwardly in preference to the A-side by Boston radio station WMEX, where it rose to No. one, and was subsequently picked up by other stations. It entered the Billboard chart in February 1969, peaking at number 71, and re-entered the charts the following January, this time peaking at number 66. In Canada, it ranked number 41 in March 1969,[3] and number 58 in Feb 1970.[4]

Rundgren's songs in this early phase of his career were heavily influenced by the work of Laura Nyro,[ citation needed ] but in a 2005 interview he revealed that the basic structure of the song was adapted from the introduction of a Jimmy Smith recording:

...the principal influence for Hello It's Me was an eight bar intro that Jimmy Smith played on a recording of When Johnny Comes Marching Home.  He had this whole sort of block chord thing that he did to gear up upwardly the intro of the song.  I tried to capture those changes, and those changes became what are the changes underneath Hello It's Me.  I so had to come up upward with melody and words, merely the changes are actually almost lifted literally from something that was, from Jimmy Smith'due south standpoint, a throwaway.

—Todd Rundgren, puremusic.com [one]

Todd Rundgren solo version [edit]

"Hello Information technology's Me"
Helloitsme rundgren.jpg

1974 France single picture sleeve
Single by Todd Rundgren
from the anthology Something/Annihilation?
B-side "Common cold Morning Light"
Released September 1973 (1973-09)
Recorded 1971
Studio The Tape Plant, New York City
Genre
  • Soft rock[five] [6] [vii]
  • pop[8] [nine]
  • soul[ten]
Length
  • 3:31 (single)
  • 4:42 (album)
Characterization Bearsville
Songwriter(s) Todd Rundgren
Producer(s) Todd Rundgren
Todd Rundgren singles chronology
"Couldn't I Just Tell You"
(1972) 		"Hello Information technology's Me"
(1973) 		"A Dream Goes On Forever"
(1974)

Rundgren recorded a more than midtempo version of "How-do-you-do It's Me" for his 1972 solo album Something/Annihilation?. An edit of this version was released as a single in September 1973, over a year and a one-half after Something/Anything? and became Rundgren's only superlative 10 pop hit, reaching No. v on the Hot 100. It as well reached No. 17 on the Adult Contemporary chart.[11]

Personnel [edit]

  • Todd Rundgren – pb vocals, piano
  • Mark "Moogy" Klingman – organ
  • John Siomos – drums
  • Stu Woods – bass guitar
  • Robbie Kogale – guitar
  • Randy Brecker – trumpet
  • Michael Brecker – tenor sax
  • Barry Rogers – trombone
  • Hope Ruff – backing vocals
  • Richard Corey – backing vocals
  • Allan Nicholls - backing vocals
  • Vicki Robinson – backing vocals
  • Dennis Cooley – bankroll vocals
  • Cecilia Norfleet – bankroll vocals[12] [13]

Chart history [edit]

Weekly charts [edit]

Chart (1973–74) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[14] 68
Canada RPM Top Singles 17
Canada RPM Adult Contemporary[15] 9
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[16] 5
U.S. Billboard Developed Contemporary 17
U.S. Cash Box Meridian 100[17] 2

Year-end charts [edit]

Chart (1973) Rank
Canada RPM Top Singles[xviii] 139
U.South. Billboard Hot 100[xix] 82
Chart (1974) Rank
U.South. Cash Box [20] 23

Popular civilisation [edit]

  • In 2021 the song was used during a pivotal scene in the premiere episode of And Just Similar That..., the Telly sequel to the original Sex and the City on HBO.[21] It was repeated at various points during the bear witness'southward 2021-22 season.

Other versions [edit]

  • A cover version of "Howdy It's Me" was recorded past The Isley Brothers for their 1974 album Live It Up.[22]
  • A version influenced by the Isley Brothers' cover was recorded by Groove Theory for their 1995 self-titled album.[23]
  • Mary J. Blige recorded a version produced past Mark Ronson that appears on the Japanese and iTunes editions of her 2007 album Growing Pains.
  • Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs included their have of the vocal on their album Nether the Covers, Vol. 2.
  • Todd Rundgren recorded a new "Latin" version in 1997 on his anthology With a Twist...
  • Erykah Badu recorded a version influenced past the Isley Brothers' cover on her 2015 mixtape But You Caint Use My Phone, as a duet with André 3000.

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b Bill DeMain, "A Chat with Todd Rundgren", puremusic.com
  2. ^ Marc Myers (Nov 26, 2018). "The Bad Breakup that Led to "Hello It's Me"". The Wall Street Periodical.
  3. ^ "RPM Tiptop 100 Singles - March 24, 1969" (PDF).
  4. ^ "RPM Top 100 Singles - February 21, 1970" (PDF).
  5. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Todd Rundgren – Great Classics". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
  6. ^ Zimmerman, Lee (four May 2015). "Todd Rundgren, Emil Nikolaisen, Hans-Peter Lindstrom: Runddans". PopMatters . Retrieved 30 July 2016.
  7. ^ Greenwald, David (3 Apr 2014). "The top 10 '70s soft-rock seduction ballads (playlist)". OregonLive.com. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
  8. ^ Don Breithaupt; Jeff Breithaupt (29 July 2014). Precious and Few: Popular Music of the Early '70s. St. Martin'south Press. p. 44. ISBN978-ane-4668-7649-1 . Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  9. ^ SPIN Media LLC (February 1993). SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. p. 53. ISSN 0886-3032. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  10. ^ Vibe Media Group (October 1999). "Vibe". Vibe Vixen. Vibe Media Group: 189. ISSN 1070-4701. Retrieved 26 Oct 2015.
  11. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1993). Pinnacle Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993. Record Research. p. 208.
  12. ^ Todd Rundgren- "How-do-you-do, It's Me" information @fleetwoodmac.net Retrieved ane-15-2011.
  13. ^ Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything? (1972) album- Liner notes.
  14. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Nautical chart Volume. p. 261. ISBN0-646-11917-6.
  15. ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1974-01-19. Retrieved 2018-04-xxx .
  16. ^ Joel Whitburn's Top Popular Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-Ten
  17. ^ Greenbacks Box Meridian 100 Singles, December 22, 1973
  18. ^ Canada, Library and Archives (July 13, 2017). "Image : RPM Weekly".
  19. ^ Musicoutfitters.com
  20. ^ "Cash Box Year-Terminate Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 28, 1974". Archived from the original on October nine, 2016. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
  21. ^ Martin Kielty, "The Heartbreak Behind Todd Rundgren'south 'Hello It'south Me'", ultimateclassicrock.com}}
  22. ^ Hi It's Me at AllMusic
  23. ^ Stanton Swihart. "Groove Theory". AllMusic. Netaktion LLC.

External links [edit]

  • Todd Rundgren'southward "Hi, It'due south Me": Wild Success Story, Marc Nathan, August 13, 2015, All-time Classic Bands

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_It%27s_Me