Love Me BF 1541 304115 BF The third single from Bobby Hebb on Philips Written by Kenny Gamble and Jerery Ross

Produced by Jerry Ross, Arranged by Joe Renzetti, the team from the "Sunny" album, actually a re-write of "Sunny" where Ross invited Bobby to participate as a songwriter. Bobby declined, but he did record this gem (Bobby also declined "Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie" by Jay Proctor of Jay and the Techniques for it being a novelty tune. However, Hebb promised me before he passed that he would sing on the instrumental Ross had recorded for him, in the UMG vaults....we just didn't get to it in time.) Had "Love Me" been released on the heels of "Sunny," and had Bobby recorded "Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie" history would have been changed, possibly, and Hebb would have been a singles artist potentially.

There's a marvelous change at the 40 second mark, and Ross then adds some keyboard or xylophone magic at the 50 second mark, the backing vocalists on the chorus sure sounding like Melba Moore, Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson from the Sunny album.

The time is 2:04, a perfect two minutes for radio in 1966 - back in 1964 Millie Small's "My Boy Lollipop" was 2:01, the Box Tops "The Letter" in 1967 was timed at 1:55, under 2 minutes, and 1968's Beatles flip of Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da / I Will coming in at 1:45!!!! Bobby Hebb appeared on the 1966 tour with the Beatles

"Love Me" will be a bonus track on the 2026 proposed re-release of the Sunny album.

Bobby Hebb – Love Me Lyrics

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Putting my liner notes for the SUNNY re-release

planned for Bobby's birthday July 26 (1938)...

"Love Me" should have been the 2nd single, not the third

Kenny Gamble of Gamble & Huff and Producer Jerry Ross

did a Sunny knock off. Bobby declined songwriting credit

though he deserved it. Bobby and Sandy Baron wrote

Lou Rawls' Grammy-winning "A Natural Man," and since

Gamble & Huff produced "You Want to Change Me" and "Dreamy"

for Bobby, and co-worked with Jerry Ross (and some of the Sunny

album songwriting) they should have picked Bobby up the way they did
Lou Rawls.

Hebb also had lesser hits with his "A Satisfied Mind" in 1966^[4] (No. 39 on the Billboard chart and No. 40 on the R&B chart) and "Love Me" in 1967 (No. 84),^[5] and wrote many other songs, including Lou Rawls' 1971 hit "A Natural Man" (co-written with comedian Sandy Baron). Six years prior to "Sunny", Hebb reached the New York City Top 50 with a remake of Roy Acuff's "Night Train to Memphis". In 1972, his single "Love Love Love" reached No. 32 on the UK charts.^[6]