"Are You Lonely for Me", written and produced by Bert Berns (aka Bert Russell), is a song first recorded by Freddie Scott. The single was Scott's highest charting single on the R&B chart, hitting the number-one spot for four weeks, in early 1967. "Are You Lonely For Me" was also Freddie Scott's second and last Top 40-hit single. The song's back up vocals were performed by

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and the Sweet Inspirations. The song has been covered many times since, including renditions by Hank Ballard, Commitments,

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, Chuck Jackson, Steve Marriott, Otis Redding & Carla Thomas, and David Johansen. The song was a standard in the Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders tours from 1972 to 1974. Keith Richards named it the one song he would want to be credited for writingArchived a
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