The Young Ones (song)

"The Young Ones"
Single by Cliff Richard and The Shadows
B-side "We Say Yeah" (Gormley-Welch-Marvin)
Released 11 January 1962
Format 7" single
Recorded August 11, December 5 1961
Length 3:11
Label Columbia (EMI) 45-DB 4761
Writer(s) Tepper/Bennett
Producer Norrie Paramor
Cliff Richard and The Shadows singles chronology
"When the Girl in Your Arms Is the Girl in Your Heart"
(1961)		 "The Young Ones"
(1962)		 "I'm Looking Out the Window"
(1962)

"The Young Ones" is a single by Cliff Richard and The Shadows. The song, written by Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett, is the title song to the 1961 film The Young Ones and its soundtrack album. It sold over 2.6m worldwide.

The track was included on Cliff Richard and the Shadows #1 EP Hits from the Young Ones

In the 1980s it became the title song to the British TV series The Young Ones.

Charts

Chart (1962) Peak
position
Canada CHUM chart 5
UK Singles Chart 1

See also

Cliff Richard
Albums (UK)
1950s:
Cliff (1959) · Cliff Sings (1959)
1960s:
Me and My Shadows (1960) · Listen to Cliff! (1961) · 21 Today (1961) · The Young Ones (1961, soundtrack) · 32 Minutes and 17 Seconds (1962) · Summer Holiday (1963, soundtrack) · When in Spain (1963) · Wonderful Life (1964, soundtrack) · Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp (1964, stage show album) · Cliff Richard (1965) · Love Is Forever (1965) · When in Rome (1965) · Kinda Latin · Finders Keepers (1966, soundtrack) · Cinderella (1967, soundtrack) · Don't Stop Me Now (1967) · Good News (1967, gospel) · Cliff in Japan (1968, live) · Two a Penny (1968, soundtrack) · Established 1958 (1968) · Sincerely Cliff (1969)
1970s:
Tracks and Grooves (1970) · All My Love (1970) · About the Man (1970, gospel) · His Land (1970, gospel) · Cliff: Live at the Talk of the Town (1970, live) · The 31st February Street (1974) · Take Me High (1974, soundtrack) · Help It Along (1974, gospel) · I'm Nearly Famous (1976) · Every Face Tells a Story (1977) · Green Light (1978) · Small Corners (1978, gospel) · Rock 'n' Roll Juvenile (1979) · Thank You Very Much (1979, live)
1980s:
I'm No Hero (1980) · Wired for Sound (1980) · Now You See Me... Now You Don't (1982, gospel) · Silver (1983) · Dressed for the Occasion (1983, live) · The Rock Collection (1984)  · Always Guaranteed (1987) · Stronger (1989)
1990s:
From a Distance: The Event (1990, live) · Together with Cliff Richard (1991) · The Album (1993) · Songs from Heathcliff (1995, stage show album) · Heathcliff Live (1996, stage show album, live) · Real as I Wanna Be (1998)
2000s:
Wanted (2001) · Live at the ABC Kingston, 1962 (2002, live) · Cliff at Christmas (2003) · Something's Goin' On (2004) · Cliff Richard - The World Tour (2004, live) · Two's Company The Duets (2006) · Love... The Album (2007, Part new songs, part compilation) · Reunited – Cliff Richard and The Shadows (2009)
2010s:
Bold as Brass (2010) · Soulicious (2011)
EPs (UK)
Serious Charge  · Expresso Bongo
Compilations (UK)
Cliff's Hit Album (1963) · More Hits by Cliff (1965) · The Best of Cliff (1969) · The Best of Cliff, Vol. 2 (1972) · 40 Golden Greats (1977) · Love Songs (1981) · Walking in the Light (1984) · Private Collection: 1979-1988 (1988) · My Kinda Life (1992) · The Hit List (1994) · At the Movies 1959-1974 (1996) · Yesterday, Today, Forever (1997, gospel) · The Whole Story: His Greatest Hits (2000) · Miss You Nights: The Ballads Collection (2004) · The Platinum Collection (2005) · And They Said It Wouldn't Last (My 50 Years in Music) (2008) · The 50th Anniversary Album (2008) ·
Filmography
Related articles
Discography  · Concert tours  · The Shadows
Book:Cliff Richard
Cliff Richard singles discography
1950s
"Move It" (1958)
1960s
"Please Don't Tease" (1960) · "I Love You"(1960) · "A Girl Like You" (1961) · "When the Girl in Your Arms is the Girl in Your Heart" (1961) · "The Young Ones" (1962) · "The Next Time" / "Bachelor Boy" (1962) · "Summer Holiday" (1963) · "Lucky Lips" (1963) · "It's All in the Game" (1963) · "The Twelfth of Never" (1964) · "The Minute You're Gone" (1965) · "Blue Turns to Grey" (1966) · "All My Love" (1967) · "Congratulations" (1968) · "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" (1968) · "Marianne" (1968)
1970s
"Power to All Our Friends" (1973) · "Miss You Nights" (1976) · "Devil Woman" (1976) · "We Don't Talk Anymore" (1979)
1980s
"Suddenly" (1980) · "True Love Ways" (1983) · "Donna" (1984) · "Two to the Power of Love" (1984) · "All I Ask of You" (1986) · "Mistletoe and Wine" (1988) · "I Just Don't Have the Heart" (1989) · "Whenever God Shines His Light" (1989)
1990s
"Stronger Than That" (1990) · "From a Distance" (1990) · "Saviour's Day" (1990) · "We Should Be Together" (1991) · "All I Have to Do Is Dream" (live) (1994) · "The Millennium Prayer" (1999)
2000s
Book:Cliff Richard