The Young Ones (song)

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For other uses, see The Young Ones.
"The Young Ones"
Single by Cliff Richard and The Shadows
B-side "We Say Yeah" (Gormley-Welch-Marvin)
Released 11 January 1962
Format 7" single
Recorded August 11 & December 5, 1961, EMI Studios, London
Length 3:11
Label Columbia (EMI) DB 4761[1]
Writer(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"
(1962)		 "I'm Looking Out the Window/Do You Want to Dance"
(1962)

"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]

It was released in January 1962 on the Columbia (EMI) label and went straight to No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart.[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,[2][3] and 2.6m worldwide.

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

In the 1980s it became the title song to the British TV series The Young Ones.

The song features in Part 1 of the two-part TV psychological thriller Thirteen Steps Down (based on the 2004 novel Thirteen Steps Down by Ruth Rendell) first broadcast in the UK by ITV on 13 August 2012.[4]

Charts

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[15] 8
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[16] 1
New Zealand[17] 1
Norway (VG-lista)[18] 2
South Africa[11] 1
Spain (Promusicae)[19] 1
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[20] 4
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[21] 1

See also

References

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  10. ↑ "Officialcharts.de – Cliff Richard & The Shadows – The Young Ones". GfK Entertainment.
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  16. ↑ "Dutchcharts.nl – Cliff Richard & The Shadows – The Young Ones" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
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  18. ↑ "Norwegiancharts.com – Cliff Richard & The Shadows – The Young Ones". VG-lista.
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  21. ↑ "Cliff Richard: Artist Chart History" Official Charts Company.

External links

Preceded by UK number one single
"The Young Ones"
11 January 1962 (six weeks)		 Succeeded by
"Rock-A-Hula Baby" b/w "Can't Help Falling in Love"
by Elvis Presley


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