Missing (Everything but the Girl song)

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“Missing”
Single by Everything but the Girl from the album Amplified Heart
Released	1994 1995 (Todd Terry remix)
Format	CD single CD maxi 12" maxi
Genre	Pop/Dance
Length	4:04
Label	Blanco Y Negro (UK) Atlantic (U.S.)
Writer(s)	Tracey Thorn Ben Watt
Producer	Ben Watt Todd Terry
Certification	Gold (US)
Everything but the Girl singles chronology
"Rollercoaster" (1994) "Missing" (1995) "Wrong]" (1996)

"Missing" is a song written and recorded by British pop music duo Everything but the Girl. The song was released as a single from the band's 1994 album Amplified Heart. "Missing" is Everything but the Girl's best-known hit and it is credited with revitalizing the duo's musical career and steering members Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn into a successful electronic music direction.

Contents 1 Original release and remix 2 Track listings 3 Charts 4 Cover versions 5 References

[edit] Original release and remix

Prior to "Missing", Everything but the Girl was most known as a folk and jazz group. They had released eight albums prior to Amplified Heart and had a number-three UK singles chart hit in 1988 ("I Don't Want to Talk About It"), but were relatively unknown in the United States. "Missing" was recorded as a laid-back guitar-based pop song that had earned modest airplay on U.S. Adult Contemporary radio. The duo gave the track to house music producer Todd Terry to remix for clubs. The resulting dance version of "Missing" became a worldwide smash, matching Everything But the Girl's UK best chart position of number three in November 1995 and hitting number one on the German singles chart. The song became the duo's first U.S. Billboard Hot 100 entry, and after a long climb up the chart, it peaked at number two in 1996 (in its twenty-eighth chart week), eventually spending fifty-five weeks on the chart (a record at the time which has since been broken — the single is today the ninth-longest charting song on the U.S. Hot 100.).

Tracey Thorn later explained to Rolling Stone that "Missing" was originally intended as a dance-oriented track: ^[1]

“

"It was written with that idea in mind, totally... we put on sort of a laid back house groove instead. Then when we gave it to Todd, he took it in a really, really strong New York house direction, which had a real simplicity to it, but it was very infectious."

”

After the global success of "Missing", Everything but the Girl ventured into a more electronic/house/drum and bass direction with their follow-up albums Walking Wounded and Temperamental.

Even with its success in the mainstream and in dance clubs, "Missing" never entered the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart. Everything but the Girl would eventually amass four U.S. dance chart number-ones, with singles released after "Missing". The track also served as the signature song for Saturday Night Live character Mango. During several of his fans' obsessive daydream sequences, Mango would commonly appear in a thought cloud over the person's head, and dance provocatively to this song.

[edit] Track listings

CD maxi

1. "Missing" (Todd Terry club mix (Blanco/Eternal radio edit)) (3:52)
2. "Missing" (Todd Terry club mix) (4:58)
3. "Missing" (Rockin' blue mix) (7:47)
4. "Missing" (Chris & James full on club mix) (8:36)
5. "Missing" (amplified heart album mix) (4:04)
6. "Missing" (Todd Terry tee's piece) (4:34)

12" maxi

1. "Missing" (Todd Terry club mix) (4:53)
2. "Missing" (Rockin' blue mix) (7:47)
3. "Missing" (Todd Terry lite mix) (4:05)
4. "Missing" (Todd Terry tee's beat) (2:48)
5. "Missing" (Chris & James Full on club mix) (8:36)

CD maxi - Remixes

1. "Missing" (album version) (4:04)
2. "Missing" (Little Joey remix) (5:03)
3. "Missing" (Chris & James full on club mix) (8:35)
4. "Missing" (ultramarine remix) (5:26)

[edit] Charts

Chart (1994)[2]	Peak position
UK Singles Chart	69
Chart (1995/1996)[3] [4] [5] [6] [7]	Peak position
Australian Singles Chart	2
Austrian Singles Chart	6
Belgian (Flanders) Singles Chart	10
Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart	2
Canadian Singles Chart	1
Dutch Singles Chart	5
Finnish Singles Chart	11
French Singles Chart	2
German Singles Chart	1
Irish Singles Chart	3
Italian Singles Chart	1
Latvian Airplay Top	1
New Zealand Singles Chart	14
Norwegian Singles Chart	5
Swiss Singles Chart	2
UK Singles Chart	3
US Billboard Hot 100 Airplay	1
US Billboard Hot 100	2
US Billboard Adult Contemporary Tracks	6
US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs	70

Preceded by "Gangsta's Paradise" by Coolio featuring L.V.	German number one single February 2, 1996 – February 9, 1996	Succeeded by "Spaceman by Babylon Zoo
Preceded by "One Sweet Day" by Mariah Carey featuring Boyz II Men	United World Chart number one single March 9, 1996 – March 23, 1996	Succeeded by "Children by Robert Miles

[edit] Cover versions

• No Mercy, 1997
• Paradise Lost, 2007
• Expatriate, 2007

[edit] References