Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

“"Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)”
“"Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)” cover
Single by Erasure
from the album Erasure
B-side "Hi NRG"
Released November 27, 1995
Format 12", cassette, CD
Recorded 1995
Genre Synthpop
Length 4:23
Label Mute (UK)
Elektra (U.S.)
Writer(s) Vince Clarke, Andy Bell
Producer Thomas Fehlmann, Gareth Jones
Erasure singles chronology
"Stay with Me"
(1995)		 "Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)"
(1995)		 "Rock Me Gently"
(1996)

"Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)" is a song by British synth pop duo Erasure. The track originally appeared on the soundtrack to the documentary film Wigstock: the Movie. Erasure re-recorded the track for their album Erasure with new lyrics. It was released as the second single from the album by Mute Records in the UK and Elektra Records in the United States. The album version is over six minutes long; the single edit removes an extended instrumental section between the second and third choruses.

The song was composed by Vince Clarke and Andy Bell and is an uptempo dance music track. The music video features Bell singing the song as he walks through an amusement park (the actual filming was done in the London Docklands[1]). Upon its release, the song became Erasure's twenty-second consecutive Top 20 hit in the UK singles chart. In Germany the song stopped at number sixty-nine. Although it did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, "Fingers & Thumbs" hit number ten on the U.S. Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.

The single's B-side is a cover version of "High Energy" (retitled "Hi NRG"), a 1984 number-one U.S. dance chart hit by Evelyn Thomas.

Contents

[edit] Track listings

[edit] Cassette single (CMUTE178)

  1. "Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)" (Single Mix)
  2. "Hi NRG"

[edit] 12" single (12MUTE178)

  1. "Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)" (Tin Tin Out Remix)
  2. "Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)" (Tin Tin Out Instrumental)
  3. "Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)" (Dub on the Moon)
  4. "Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)" (Twilight Plus)

[edit] CD single #1 (CDMUTE178)

  1. "Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)" (Single Mix)
  2. "Hi NRG"
  3. "Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)" (Twilight 0.2)
  4. "Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)" (Fingers In Crumbs)

[edit] CD single #2 (LCDMUTE178)

  1. "Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)" (Tin Tin Out Remix)
  2. "Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)" (Dub on the Moon)
  3. "Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)" (Electrofinger)
  4. "Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)" (Twilight Plus)

[edit] References

v • d • e
Erasure
Vince Clarke | Andy Bell
Albums/EPs
Compilations
Live album
Box Sets
Singles
"Who Needs Love Like That" | "Heavenly Action" | "Oh L'amour" | "Sometimes" | "It Doesn't Have to Be" | "Victim of Love" | "The Circus" | "Ship of Fools" | "Chains of Love" | "A Little Respect" | "Stop!" | "Drama!" | "You Surround Me" | "Blue Savannah" | "Star" | "Chorus" | "Love to Hate You" | "Am I Right?" | "Breath of Life" | "Take a Chance on Me" | "Who Needs Love Like That (remix)" | "Always" | "Run to the Sun" | "I Love Saturday" | "Stay with Me" | "Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)" | "Rock Me Gently" | "In My Arms" | "Don't Say Your Love Is Killing Me" | "Rain" | "Freedom" | "Moon & the Sky" | "Solsbury Hill" | " Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)" | "Oh L'amour (August Mix)" | "Breathe" | "Don't Say You Love Me" | "Here I Go Impossible Again" | "All This Time Still Falling Out of Love" | "Boy" | "I Could Fall in Love with You" | "Sunday Girl"
Video/DVD
Sanctuary - the EIS Christmas Concert 2002 | Hits! the Videos | The Tank, the Swan and the Balloon | Great Hits Live - Live at Great Woods | The Erasure Show - Live in Cologne | On the Road to Nashville