Summer Holiday (song)

"Summer Holiday"
Single by Cliff Richard and The Shadows
from the album Summer Holiday
B-side	"Dancing Shoes"
Released	2 June 1963
Format	7" single
Recorded	9 May & 19 November 1962, EMI Studios, London
Genre	Pop
Length	2:03
Label	Columbia(EMI) DB 4977
Writer(s)	Bruce Welch, Brian Bennett
Producer(s)	Norrie Paramor
Cliff Richard and The Shadows singles chronology

"Summer Holiday" is a song recorded by Cliff Richard and The Shadows, written by rhythm guitarist Bruce Welch and drummer Brian Bennett.^[1] It is taken from the film of the same name,^[1] and was released as the second single from the film in February 1963. It went to number one in the UK Singles Chart for a total of three weeks, as had the first single from the film, "The Next Time".^[2] After "Summer Holiday" had spent two weeks at number one, The Shadows' instrumental "Foot Tapper" - also from the same film - took over the top spot for one week, before "Summer Holiday" returned to the top spot for one further week.^[3] The track is one of Richard's best known titles and it remains a staple of his live shows. It was one of six hits Richard performed at his spontaneous gig at the 1996 Wimbledon Championships when rain stopped the tennis.

A cover version of the song by Kevin the Gerbil was used as the theme from TV-am's 1984 series Rat on the Road II.

The melody of the song is used in the chorus of the 1986 rap tune "Holiday Rap", by the Dutch duo MC Miker G & DJ Sven.

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Preceded by "The Wayward Wind" by Frank Ifield	UK number-one single 14 March 1963 – 21 March 1963 4 April 1963	Succeeded by "Foot Tapper" by The Shadows

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v t e Cliff Richard singles discography
1950s	"Move It" "High Class Baby" (1958) "Livin' Lovin' Doll" "Mean Streak" "Living Doll" "Travellin' Light" (1959)
1960s	"Please Don't Tease" "I Love You" (1960) "A Girl Like You" "When the Girl in Your Arms..." (1961) "The Young Ones" "I'm Looking Out the Window" "It'll Be Me" "The Next Time" / "Bachelor Boy" (1962) "Summer Holiday" "Lucky Lips" "It's All in the Game" (1963) "The Twelfth of Never" (1964) "The Minute You're Gone" (1965) "Blue Turns to Grey" "Visions" (1966) "All My Love" (1967) "Congratulations" "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" "Marianne" (1968)
1970s	"Power to All Our Friends" (1973) "Miss You Nights" "Devil Woman" (1976) "We Don't Talk Anymore" (1979)
1980s	"Suddenly" (1980) "True Love Ways" (1983) "Donna" "Two to the Power of Love" (1984) "Living Doll" "All I Ask of You" (1986) "Mistletoe and Wine" (1988) "I Just Don't Have the Heart" "Whenever God Shines His Light" (1989)
1990s	"Stronger Than That" "From a Distance" "Saviour's Day" (1990) "We Should Be Together" (1991) "All I Have to Do Is Dream" (live) (1994) "The Millennium Prayer" (1999)
2000s	"Somewhere Over the Rainbow"/"What a Wonderful World" (medley) (2001) "When I Need You" (2007) "Thank You for a Lifetime" (2008) "Singing the Blues" (2009)
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