''Call My Name'' is the sixth studio album by American blues artist, Etta James. The album was produced by

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and released on

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in 1967. ''Call My Name'' was the second of a series of albums James would release that mainly consisted on

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. It included one song that charted on

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, "I Prefer You," that reached #42. The other two singles spawned from the release ("Don't Pick Me for Your Fool" and "Call My Name") did not chart, becoming James's first album that did not release a Top 40 single.

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gave the album four out of five stars, calling the tracks, "I'm So Glad (I Found Love in You)," "It Must Be Your Love," and "Don't Pick Me for Your Fool" as "standouts." The album was released on a 12-inch

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LP record, consisting of twelve tracks, with six songs on each side of the album. It has been available as a CD volume since 2011 when reissued with additional tracks by Kent recordsEtta James, Call My Name, Kent Records CDKEND 360 , 2011

Track listing

Side one #"Happiness" (Vee Pea Smith, Morris Dollison) #"

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" ( M. Rotha) #"Have a Little Faith in Me" (

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, Joyce Wrencher) #"I'm So Glad (I Found Love in You)" (Vee Pea Smith, Morris Dollison) #"

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" ( Jimmie Davis,

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) #"It Must Be Your Love" (Monk Higgins, Chuck Bernard, Morris Dollison, Billy Foster) Side two #"842-3089 (Call My Name)" (Monk Higgins, Morris Dollison, Billy Foster) #"Don't Pick Me for Your Fool" (Monk Higgins, Morris Dollison, Billy Foster) #"I Prefer You" (Monk Higgins, Morris Dollison) #"Nobody Loves Me" (Monk Higgins, Joyce Wrencher) #" It's All Right" (

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) #"Nobody Like You" (Monk Higgins, Morris Dollison)

Charts

Singles - ''Billboard'' (United States)

References

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