Goodnight Girl

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"Goodnight Girl"
Goodnight Girl.jpg
Single by Wet Wet Wet
from the album High on the Happy Side
B-side "Ambrose Wykes"
Released23 December 1991 (1991-12-23)
Length3:41
Label The Precious Organisation
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Wet Wet Wet
Wet Wet Wet singles chronology
"Put the Light On"
(1991)		"Goodnight Girl"
(1991)		"More than Love"
(1992)

"Goodnight Girl" is the third single from Scottish band Wet Wet Wet's fourth studio album, High on the Happy Side (1992). It was released on 23 December 1991 and was the second of the band's three UK number-one singles (the first being a cover of the Beatles' "With a Little Help from My Friends"), but the only one to be self-penned. Writer Graeme Clark was inspired to write the song for his then girlfriend, but has never publicly named her.

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A string-laden ballad, "Goodnight Girl" spent four weeks at number one in the UK Singles Chart in January 1992, representing a turnaround in fortunes for the band, with the first two singles from High on the Happy Side having peaked at numbers 37 and 56 respectively. It also gave Wet Wet Wet their third Irish number-one single (after "With a Little Help from My Friends" and "Sweet Surrender") and reached the top 10 in Belgium and the Netherlands. Marti Pellow recorded his own version of the song for inclusion on his 2002 album Marti Pellow Sings the Hits of Wet Wet Wet & Smile .

Track listings

Original release

"Goodnight Girl '94"

Charts

Release history

RegionVersionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
United Kingdom"Goodnight Girl"23 December 1991
  • 7-inch vinyl
  • CD
  • cassette
The Precious Organisation [38]
Japan"Goodnight Girl '94"26 November 1994Mini-CD [39]

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