You're the One (Yoko Ono song)

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"You're the One"
Song by Yoko Ono
from the album Milk and Honey
Released27 January 1984 (1984-01-27)
Recorded1982
Genre Electropop [1]
Length3:56
Label Polydor
Songwriter(s) Yoko Ono
Producer(s) Yoko Ono
"You're the One"
Yoko Ono You're the One.jpg
Single by Yoko Ono
from the album Open Your Box
Released19 June 2007 (2007-06-19)
Length24:34 (CD single)
Label
Songwriter(s) Yoko Ono
Producer(s) Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono singles chronology
"Everyman... Everywoman..."
(2004)
"You're the One"
(2007)
"No, No, No"
(2007)

"You're the One" is a song by Yoko Ono, originally released in 1984 on Ono's and John Lennon's duet album Milk and Honey . The song was also on the compilation albums Onobox and Walking on Thin Ice .

Contents

Composition

The song's lyrics compare John Lennon and Yoko's Ono's relationship to be viewed by society as Laurel and Hardy, but viewed by the couple as Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw from Wuthering Heights . [2]

Critical reception

Robert Christgau, in his review of Milk and Honey, stated that "You're the One" and its "cricket synthesizers," along with Ono's song "Sleepless Night", "are confident personal elaborations of a tradition she comes to secondhand." [3]

Track listing

CD single
  1. "You're the One" (Claude Le Gache Vocal Mix) – 7:33
  2. "You're the One" (Morel's Pink Noise Vocal Mix) – 7:33
  3. "You're the One" (Fricia & Lamboy Tribal Dub) – 9:28
  1. "You're the One" (Bimbo Jones Vocal Mix) – 7:06
  2. "You're the One" (Bimbo Jones Dub) – 7:04
  3. "You're the One" (Morel’s Pink Noise Vocal Mix) – 7:33
  4. "You're the One" (Morel’s Pink Noise Dub) – 8:22
  5. "You're the One" (Claude Le Gache Vocal Mix) – 7:32
  6. "You're the One" (Claude Le Gache Mixshow Edit) – 6:08
  7. "You're the One" (Claude Le Gache Dub) – 7:33
  8. "You're the One" (Friscia & Lamboy Tribal Dub) – 9:28

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2007)Peak
position
US Dance Club Songs ( Billboard ) [5] 2
Global Dance Tracks ( Billboard ) [6] 36

Year-end charts

Chart (2007)Peak
position
US Hot Dance Club Songs ( Billboard ) [7] 7

Personnel

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