Get Away (Georgie Fame song)

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Not to be confused with Getaway (Earth, Wind & Fire song).
"Get Away"
Single by Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames
B-side "El Bandido" (Powell)
Released 1966
Format 7" 45 rpm
Genre Pop music
Length 2:24
Label Columbia DB7946[1]
Imperial Records (USA)
Writer(s) Clive Powell[1]
Producer(s) Denny Cordell[1]
Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames singles chronology
"Something"
(1965)		 "Get Away"
(1966)		 "Sunny"
(1966)

"Get Away"[2] was a 1966 number-one single in the UK for Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames. Some original pressings and reissues, as well as BMI, give its title as a single word, "Getaway".[3][4]

It topped the UK Singles Chart in July 1966 for one week,[1] and was the second number one for Georgie Fame, following his 1965 hit "Yeh, Yeh".[5] Fame would have a third number-one single in January 1968, with "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde".[6]

It was released in the United States on Imperial Records, a subsidiary of Liberty Records, and reached no.70 on the Billboard Hot 100.[7]

The song was originally written as a jingle for a television advertisement for National petrol.[8]It was later used as the theme tune for a long-running travel and lifestyle show on Australian television called Getaway. The two subsequent singles, "Sunny" and "Sitting in the Park" reached chart positions of No. 13 and No. 12 respectively. After the album Sweet Things (1966) was released, Fame signed to CBS and became a solo artist.[9]


References

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Preceded by UK number one single
22 July 1966 for one week		 Succeeded by
"Out of Time"
by Chris Farlowe


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