The Young Ones (song)

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"The Young Ones"
Cliff Richard - The Young Ones - We Say Yeah (German).jpg
Cover of the German edition
Single by Cliff Richard and the Shadows
from the album The Young Ones
B-side "We Say Yeah" (Gormley-Welch-Marvin)
Released11 January 1962
Recorded11 August & 5 December 1961, EMI Studios, London
Length3:11
Label Columbia (EMI) DB 4761 [1]
Songwriter(s) Tepper/Bennett [1]
Producer(s) Norrie Paramor [1]
Cliff Richard and the Shadows singles chronology
"Outsider"
(1962)		"The Young Ones"
(1962)		"I'm Looking out the Window"
(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]

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With advance orders of over 500,000, it was released in January 1962 on the Columbia (EMI) label and went straight to No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart. It was the first British single to do so since Elvis Presley's "It's Now or Never" in November 1960. [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, and 2.6m worldwide. [2] [3] [4]

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

The song was reworked and chosen as the lead single on the orchestral release Cliff with Strings in 2023. [5]

Personnel

Chart performance

Chart (1962)Peak
position
Australia (Music Maker, Sydney) [6] 1
Australia (Kent Music Report) [7] 6
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) [8] 4
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia) [9] 10
Canada (CHUM, Toronto) [10] 5
Denmark (Quans Musikbureau) [11] 1
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista) [12] 6
Germany (Official German Charts) [13] 16
Hong Kong [6] 3
Ireland (Evening Herald) [14] 1
Israel (Kol Israel) [15] 1
Japan (Utamatic, Tokyo) [16] [17] 6
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [18] 1
New Zealand [19] 1
Norway (VG-lista) [20] 2
South Africa (Radio of South Africa) [21] 1
Spain (Promusicae) [22] 1
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) [23] 4
UK Singles (OCC) [24] 1

In the 1980s, it became the theme song to the alternative comedy sitcom The Young Ones . [2]

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