Puppy Love/Sleigh Ride

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"Puppy Love" / "Sleigh Ride"
Puppy Love Sleigh Ride.jpg
Single by S Club Juniors
from the album Together
Released9 December 2002 (2002-12-09) [1]
Length
  • 3:05 ("Puppy Love")
  • 2:55 ("Sleigh Ride")
Label Polydor, 19
Songwriter(s) Paul Anka ("Puppy Love"), Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish ("Sleigh Ride")
Producer(s) Jewels & Stone
S Club Juniors singles chronology
"New Direction"
(2002)
"Puppy Love" / "Sleigh Ride"
(2002)
"Fool No More"
(2003)
Frankie Sandford singles chronology
"New Direction"
(2002)
"Puppy Love" / "Sleigh Ride"
(2002)
"Fool No More"
(2003)

"Puppy Love" and "Sleigh Ride" are two songs by British pop group S Club Juniors, released as a double A-side single and as the fourth single from their debut album, Together (2002). "Puppy Love" is a cover of the 1960 Paul Anka song while "Sleigh Ride" is a cover of the 1948 song written by Leroy Anderson and Mitchell Parish. "Puppy Love" / "Sleigh Ride" was issued on 9 December 2002, peaking at number six on the UK Singles Chart. The single was the group's first and only double-A-side.

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Composition

Calvin Goldspink is on lead vocals for "Puppy Love". Frankie Sandford, Aaron Renfree, Stacey McClean, Rochelle Wiseman, Daisy Evans, Hannah Richings and Jay Asforis do not have any solos in this song.

Music videos

The video for "Puppy Love" features Goldspink looking through a Rachel Stevens calendar and making a snow stature shaped like her whilst the others are playing in the snow. Later the band are indoors decorating the house with decorations before finding their presents were Goldspink finds a present for him from Stevens: a puppy. At the end of the video words come up saying, "Remember a dog is for life, Not just for Christmas."

The video for "Sleigh Ride" features clips from the previous video with the band playing in the snow and the lyrics to song appear to sing-a-long to.

Track listings

UK CD single [2]

  1. "Puppy Love"
  2. "Sleigh Ride"
  3. "Sleigh Ride" (karaoke version)
  4. "Puppy Love" (video)

UK cassette single [3]

  1. "Puppy Love"
  2. "Sleigh Ride"
  3. "Puppy Love" (karaoke version)

Credits and personnel

Charts

Chart (2002)Peak
position
Europe (Eurochart Hot 100) [5] 16
Ireland (IRMA) [6] 8
Scotland (OCC) [7] 7
UK Singles (OCC) [8] 6

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