| "Take That Look Off Your Face" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Marti Webb | ||||
| from the album Tell Me on a Sunday | ||||
| B-side | "Sheldon Bloom" | |||
| Released | January 1980 | |||
| Format | 7" single | |||
| Recorded | 1979 | |||
| Genre | Pop, MOR, Theatrical | |||
| Length | 3.27 | |||
| Label | Polydor | |||
| Writer(s) | Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black | |||
| Producer | Andrew Lloyd Webber | |||
| Certification | Silver | |||
| Marti Webb singles chronology | ||||
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"Take That Look Off Your Face" is the title of a hit song by musical theatre composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. Collaborating with lyricist Don Black, it was written for the song cycle show Tell Me on a Sunday in 1978. It was sung and released by Marti Webb in 1980, and became a No.3 hit in the UK charts.[1] Later, Tell Me on a Sunday was combined with another Lloyd Webber work, Variations, to form an entire new show, Song and Dance.
The song is about a woman being told of her boyfriend's infidelity. The woman denies this fact and sends her newsbearer (a girlfriend) off. This number is usually followed by the show's title song, "Tell me on a Sunday", which was Webb's follow-up single.