The Young Ones (song)

"The Young Ones" is a single by Cliff Richard and the Shadows. The song, written by Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett, is the title song to the 1961 film The Young Ones and its soundtrack album.[1]

This article is about the Cliff Richard and The Shadows song. For the film, see The Young Ones (1961 film). For the sitcom related to the song, see The Young Ones (TV series).
"The Young Ones"
Cover of the German edition
Single by Cliff Richard and the Shadows
from the album The Young Ones
B-side"We Say Yeah" (Gormley-Welch-Marvin)
Released11 January 1962
Recorded11 August & 5 December 1961, EMI Studios, London
Length3:11
LabelColumbia (EMI) DB 4761[1]
Songwriter(s)Tepper/Bennett[1]
Producer(s)Norrie Paramor[1]
Cliff Richard and the Shadows singles chronology
"When the Girl in Your Arms Is the Girl in Your Heart"
(1961)		 "The Young Ones" / "We Say Yeah"
(1962)		 "I'm Looking Out the Window" / "Do You Want to Dance"
(1962)

With advance orders of over 500,000, it was released in January 1962 on the Columbia (EMI) label and went straight to No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart, the first British single to do so.[1] It held that position for six weeks and spent 20 weeks in the chart.[1] It has sold 1.06 million copies in the UK, and 2.6m worldwide.[2][3][4]

The track was included on Cliff Richard and the Shadows No. 1 EP Hits from the Young Ones.

Personnel

Chart performance
Chart (1962) Peak
position
Australia (Music Maker, Sydney;[5]
Kent Music Report (national retrospective chart))[6]		 1
6
Canada (CHUM, Toronto)[7] 5
Denmark (Tracklisten)[8] 1
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[9] 6
Germany (Official German Charts)[10] 16
Ireland (IRMA)[11][12] 1
Hong Kong[5] 3
Israel[13] 1
Italy (FIMI)[14] 15
Japan (Utamatle, Tokyo)[15][16] 6
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[17] 1
New Zealand[18] 1
Norway (VG-lista)[19] 2
South Africa[11] 1
Spain (Promusicae)[20] 1
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[21] 4
UK Singles (OCC)[22] 1

Cover versions

American singer Cathy Carroll covered the song a few weeks after the original's release but did not achieve but regional charts success on the stateside.

  • Swedish Danceband Barbados did a cover on their 2003 album "Rewind" [23]

In the 1980s, it became the theme song to the alternative comedy sitcom The Young Ones.[2]

See also

References
  1. Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p. 64. ISBN 0-85112-250-7.
  2. Omnibus Press; Official Charts Company (4 November 2012). The Million Sellers. Omnibus Press. pp. 24–26. ISBN 978-0-85712-882-9.
  3. Ami Sedghi (4 November 2012). "UK's million-selling singles: the full list". Guardian. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
  4. Smith, Alan. "UK First Charts & Silver Discs". Dave McAleer's website. Archived from the original on 2011-09-03. Retrieved 2013-04-05.
  5. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (8 September 1962). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 40. ISSN 0006-2510.
  6. Kent, David (2005). Australian Chart Book 1940–1969. Australian Chart Book Pty Ltd, Turramurra, N.S.W. ISBN 0-646-44439-5.
  7. "CHUM charts". Airheads Radio Survey Archive (las-solanas.com). Retrieved 2014-06-09.
  8. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (30 June 1962). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 16. ISSN 0006-2510.
  9. Lassila, Juha (1990). Mitä Suomi soittaa?: Hittilistat 1954-87 (in Finnish). Jyväskylän yliopisto. ISBN 978-951-680-321-3.
  10. "Offiziellecharts.de – Cliff Richard & The Shadows – The Young Ones". GfK Entertainment Charts.
  11. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (31 March 1962). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 15. ISSN 0006-2510.
  12. The Official Charts in Ireland began on October 4, 1962. Chart positions before that are taken from the Evening Herald Chart which was a Top Ten single chart published by the Irish daily newspaper Evening Herald between February 1959 and December 1962. "Ireland singles charts". Irishcharts.ie. Archived from the original on June 3, 2009. Retrieved 2014-04-26.
  13. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (21 April 1962). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 20. ISSN 0006-2510.
  14. "Italy singles chart positions". hitparadeitalia.it. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
  15. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (29 June 1963). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 46. ISSN 0006-2510.
  16. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (8 June 1963). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 31–. ISSN 0006-2510.
  17. "Dutchcharts.nl – Cliff Richard & The Shadows – The Young Ones" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
  18. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (18 August 1962). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 22. ISSN 0006-2510.
  19. "Norwegiancharts.com – Cliff Richard & The Shadows – The Young Ones". VG-lista.
  20. Salaverri, Fernando (September 1979). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (1st ed.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. ISBN 84-8048-639-2.
  21. Johansson, Carl-Owe (1980). Rock Around the Clock - Saturday Night Fever 1955-1978. Vara, Sweden: Dominique muzic-club.
  22. "Cliff Richard: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company.
  23. https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rewind_(album_av_Barbados) https://musicbrainz.org/release/5f3c631f-cf60-43b4-bbd4-4143d69c28ff https://www.discogs.com/Barbados-Rewind/release/2645468


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