Please Don't Fall in Love

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"Please Don't Fall in Love"
Please Don't Fall in Love - Cliff Richard single.jpg
Single by Cliff Richard
from the album Silver
B-side "Too Close to Heaven"
ReleasedNovember 7, 1983 (1983-11-07) [1]
Recorded21–23 March 1983
Studio AIR Studios, London
Genre Pop
Length3:13
Label EMI
Songwriter Mike Batt
Producer Mike Batt
Cliff Richard singles chronology
"Never Say Die (Give a Little Bit More)"
(1983)
"Please Don't Fall in Love"
(1983)
"Baby You're Dynamite"
(1984)
Music video
"Please Don't Fall in Love" on YouTube

"Please Don't Fall in Love" is a song sung by Cliff Richard and released as a single in November 1983 in the UK. The song is written by Mike Batt. It was the second single released in the UK from Richard's 25th Anniversary studio album Silver . It reached number 7 in the UK Singles Chart and earned a Silver disc for sales over 250,000. [2] [3] Mike Batt said in a recent radio programme on Three Counties Radio that the song, alongside "A Winter's Tale (David Essex song)" and "I Feel Like Buddy Holly", was written about a relationship of his that wouldn't work for geographical reasons. However, he has now been married to that lady for 40 years. [4]

In some markets such as Germany, Australia and The Netherlands, the song was the third single lifted from the Silver album.

Chart performance

Chart (1983–84)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [5] 95
Ireland (IRMA) [6] 5
UK Singles (OCC) [2] 7

References

  1. "Cliff Richard - Please Don't Fall in Love". www.cliffrichardsongs.com. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  2. 1 2 "Cliff Richard: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company.
  3. "UK certification Database". BPI . Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  4. "A Songwriter's Tale". Mike Batt. Archived from the original on 2012-03-17.
  5. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970 – 1992. Australian Chart Book, St Ives, N.S.W. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
  6. "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Please Don't Fall in Love". Irish Singles Chart.