- I Can't Hear You
Infobox Single
Name = I Can't Hear You
Artist =Betty Everett
from Album =
B-side = "Can I Get to Know You"
Released = 1964
Format = 7" single
Recorded =
Genre =R&B
Length = 2:36
Label = Vee-Jay
Writer =Gerry Goffin ,Carole King
Producer =
Certification =
Chart position =- #39 (U.S. R&B)
- #66 (U.S. Pop)
Last single =The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)
(1964)
This single = I Can't Hear You
(1964)
Next single =Let It Be Me
(with Jerry Butler)
(1964)"I Can't Hear You" is the name of a song written by
Gerry Goffin andCarole King . It became a hit in 1964 when released as a single byBetty Everett .King released her own version of the song on her 1970 album "Writer". Versions have also been recorded by such artists as Lulu,
The Newbeats , andDusty Springfield .In 1976,
Helen Reddy released her version as a single as "I Can't Hear You No More." It became a #29Billboard Hot 100 hit for her (charted as a double A-side with "Music Is My Life"), and her last of eight #1 songs on theHot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart (following "Delta Dawn ", "Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)", "Keep on Singing ", "You and Me Against the World", "Angie Baby ", "Emotion", and "Ain't No Way To Treat a Lady"). [Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)] However, Reddy has been quoted as saying she was not fond of the song at all, and that she felt pressured to record it because her record company wanted her to have adisco hit.References
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