One Summer (song)

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"One Summer"
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Single by Daryl Braithwaite
from the album Edge
B-side "Pretending to Care"
Released27 January 1989
Genre Acoustic rock, Pop rock, Soft rock
Length3:43
Label CBS
Songwriter Daryl Braithwaite
Producer Simon Hussey
Daryl Braithwaite singles chronology
"All I Do"
(1988)		"One Summer"
(1989)		"Let Me Be"
(1989)

"One Summer" is a single by Daryl Braithwaite from his 1988 album Edge . Braithwaite was inspired to write the song by the British television series One Summer . The single reached No. 8 in Australia, [1] No. 5 in Norway [2] and No. 4 in Sweden. [3] It was certified gold in Australia. [4]

Contents

A music video was created for the song. It features footage of various people at the beach mixed with shots of Braithwaite, Chuck Hargreaves (in a red shirt) and John "Jak" Housden (in a yellow shirt) playing the song on the front porch of a rural property.

Braithwaite performed the song live on Hey, Hey, It's Saturday on 16 February 1989. [5]

Track listing

Charts

Weekly charts

Weekly chart performance for "One Summer"
Chart (1988)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [6] 8
Norway (VG-lista) [7] 5
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) [8] 4

Year-end charts

Year-end chart performance for "One Summer"
Chart (1989)Position
Australia (ARIA) [9] 45

Certification

Certifications for "One Summer"
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [9] Gold35,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

  1. ↑ "Daryl Braithwaite singles". australian-charts.com. Retrieved 7 January 2011.
  2. ↑ "Daryl Braithwaite". norwegiancharts.com. Retrieved 7 January 2011.
  3. ↑ "Daryl Braithwaite". swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 7 January 2011.
  4. ↑ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.
  5. ↑ Six Moons (CD). Daryl Braithwaite. Sony Music Australia. 1994.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  6. ↑ "Daryl Braithwaite – One Summer". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  7. ↑ "Daryl Braithwaite – One Summer". VG-lista. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  8. ↑ "Daryl Braithwaite – One Summer". Singles Top 100. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  9. 1 2 "ARIA Charts - End Of Year Charts - Top 50 Singles 1989". ARIA Charts . Retrieved 26 February 2015.
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