Only You (Yazoo song)

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"Only You"
"Only You" cover
Single by Yazoo
from the album Upstairs at Eric's
Released May 1982
October 7, 1996 (CD reissue)
August 23, 1999 (remix)
Format 7", 12" (1982)
12", CD (1999)
Recorded 1982
Genre Synthpop
Length 3:12
Label Mute Records
Producer(s) Eric Radcliffe, Daniel Miller and Yazoo (1982)
Eric Radcliffe and Yazoo (1999)
Chart positions

1982:

1999:
Yazoo singles chronology

"Only You"
(1982)		 "Don't Go"
(1982)

"Only You" is a ballad written by musician Vince Clarke. He wrote it while with Depeche Mode, and offered it to them when he was leaving. They declined, and Clarke recorded it after forming the duo Yazoo with Alison Moyet. It was an instant success hitting number two in the UK, and charting in the U.S. (number sixty-seven, Billboard Hot 100 and number thirty-eight Adult Contemporary), a feat only attained by one other Yazoo single.

A remix of "Only You" made the UK Top 40 again in 1999, while reaching number sixteen on the U.S. Billboard magazine Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. The music video for the new version was created using the Houdini 3D animation software package.[1]

Clarke's melody in the song "has a sweetly yearning quality, elegantly arranged by Clarke and producer E.C. Radcliffe in a fashion that links several different monophonic synths together to give the tune more depth and melodic substance" according to All Music Guide [1]. Moyet's vocals, they say, is a "perfectly understated vocal performance, soulful yet dignified in the manner of '70s soul star Ann Peebles, of Clarke's gentle and romantic lyrics."

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[edit] Cover versions

"Only You" has been covered by numerous artists, from both Spanish and English versions by Enrique Iglesias to an a cappella version by The Flying Pickets which outperformed the original on the UK singles chart by becoming the Christmas number one in 1983 spending five weeks at the top, also hitting the top of the German singles chart in 1984. Rita Coolidge also covered it in 1983 and reached number thirty-seven on the US Adult Contemporary chart with her version. Jocelyn Enriquez released a cover of the song in 1997. A version of the song appeared on Hawaiian singer Makana's 1999 self-titled album. Joshua Radin released a cover of the song in 2005 as a bonus song on an album. A popular live version of the song was also recorded by Pete Murray. Visitors to the iTunes music store can find covers by Bianca Graf, Bison Chips, David Mahr, Jan Wayne, Jodi Shaw, measureXmeasure, and SoCal VoCals.

[edit] Use in other media

In 1988, "Only You" was used prominently as background music for the film version of The Chocolate War.

In 1995, the Flying Pickets version of "Only You" was used in the last scene of the Wong Kar-Wai film, Fallen Angels.

In 1997, "Only You" was used as the background music for the romantic climax of the Hollywood teen romp Can't Hardly Wait. The scene witnessed a kiss between actor Ethan Embry and actress Jennifer Love Hewitt.

In 2003, "Only You" was used as background music for the long-awaited emotional climax of the BBC television series, The Office during the programme's final episode.

The song appears on the soundtrack to the 2004 film Napoleon Dynamite.

In 2006, "Only You" appears on the soundtrack of the Japanese film Sugar&Spice.

Preceded by
"Uptown Girl" by Billy Joel		 UK number one single (Flying Pickets version)
December 4, 1983		 Succeeded by
"Pipes Of Peace" by Paul McCartney

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Moltenbrey, Karen (April 2002). Broadcast Retrospective 25th Anniversary: Part 4. Computer Graphics World. Accessed February 26, 2006.

[edit] References

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