The Minute You're Gone

"The Minute You're Gone" is a song recorded by Cliff Richard, that spent a week at number one in the UK Singles Chart in April 1965.^[1]^[3] The single provided Richard with his eighth UK number one. It was also the first UK chart topper that Richard recorded without The Shadows.^[1]

In an interview with The Mail On Sunday in 2008,^[4] Richard said of the song:

"This is a real hidden gem in many ways because, although it reached No1 in Britain, it wasn't even released in America. At that time, The Beatles were taking off in the States and anyone who had a No. 1 here was guaranteed a top five there, including The Bachelors, who weren't rock artists as such but had a huge hit. I thought it was my big chance but the US record company said it wasn't right for their market. Hello? What wasn’t right? It was No. 1 in many countries."

The song was written by Jimmy Gately, a Nashville, Tennessee based fiddle player and singer. This song originally made No. 95 in the US charts and No. 9 in the country charts for Sonny James in 1963.^[1]^[2] It was also recorded by Al Martino, Faron Young and Loretta Lynn.

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p. 91. ISBN 0-85112-250-7.
1 2 Jimmy Gately at AllMusic
↑ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 177. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
↑ Hoyle, Antonia (2008-11-02). "Free CD of Cliff Richard's greatest hits in today's Mail on Sunday | Mail Online". Dailymail.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-04-05.

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Preceded by "Concrete and Clay" by Unit 4 + 2	UK number-one single 15 April 1965	Succeeded by "Ticket to Ride" by The Beatles

Sonny James

Notable singles	"Young Love" "Lovesick Blues" "I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know" "Apache" "The Minute You're Gone" "You're the Only World I Know" "Behind the Tear" "Take Good Care of Her" "Need You" "I'll Never Find Another You" "It's the Little Things" "A World of Our Own" "Heaven Says Hello" "Born to Be with You" "Only the Lonely" "Running Bear" "Since I Met You Baby" "It's Just a Matter of Time" "My Love" "Don't Keep Me Hangin' On" "Endlessly" "Empty Arms" "Bright Lights, Big City" "Here Comes Honey Again" "Only Love Can Break a Heart" "That's Why I Love You Like I Do" "When the Snow Is on the Roses" "Is It Wrong (For Loving You)" "In the Jailhouse Now" "Abilene"

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Cliff Richard singles discography

1950s	"Move It" "High Class Baby" (1958) "Livin' Lovin' Doll" "Mean Streak" "Living Doll" "Travellin' Light" (1959)

1960s	"Please Don't Tease" "I Love You" (1960) "A Girl Like You" "When the Girl in Your Arms..." (1961) "The Young Ones" "I'm Looking Out the Window" "It'll Be Me" "The Next Time" / "Bachelor Boy" (1962) "Summer Holiday" "Lucky Lips" "It's All in the Game" (1963) "The Twelfth of Never" (1964) "The Minute You're Gone" (1965) "Blue Turns to Grey" "Visions" (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" "Devil Woman" (1976) "We Don't Talk Anymore" (1979)

1980s	"Suddenly" (1980) "True Love Ways" (1983) "Donna" (1984 US) "Ocean Deep" (1984) "Two to the Power of Love" (1984) "Living Doll" (1986) "All I Ask of You" (1986) "Mistletoe and Wine" (1988) "I Just Don't Have the Heart" "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	"Somewhere Over the Rainbow"/"What a Wonderful World" (medley) (2001) "When I Need You" (2007) "Thank You for a Lifetime" (2008) "Singing the Blues" (2009)

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