The Minute You're Gone

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"The Minute You're Gone"
Cover of the single released in the Netherlands
Single by Cliff Richard
B-side"Just Another Guy"
Released5 March 1965
Recorded25 August 1964, Columbia Studios, Nashville, Tennessee[1]
GenrePop
Length2:19
Songwriter(s)Jimmy Gateley[1][2]
Producer(s)Billy Sherrill, Bob Morgan[3]
Cliff Richard singles chronology
"I Could Easily Fall (In Love with You)"
(1964) 		"The Minute You're Gone"
(1965) 		"Angel"
(1965)

"The Minute You're Gone" is a song written by Jimmy Gateley (often miscredited as "Gately" or "Gatelie"), a Nashville, Tennessee based fiddle player and singer, for Sonny James in 1963. This song originally made No. 95 in the US charts and No. 9 in the country charts for Sonny James in 1963.[1][2]

UK Singles Chart in April 1965.[1][4]

It was also recorded by Al Martino, Faron Young and Loretta Lynn.

Cliff Richard version

Richard's recording of the song had come about with the involvement of Richard's American label

A&R producer from Epic met with Richard's A&R producer Norrie Paramor and Richard to map out recording plans and brought 50 songs of US origin for them to screen. About 15 songs were selected and plans were made to record in New York, Nashville and Chicago according to the different styles of the songs selected, which ranged from pop-country, pure country, ballad and medium tempo. In Nashville, Richard recorded the singles "The Minute You're Gone", "Wind Me Up (Let Me Go)" and "On My Word" with Billy Sherrill producing with backing by Nashville session musicians together with the Anita Kerr Singers. Arrangement and conducting on "The Minute You're Gone" was by Stan Applebaum.[3][5][6][7]

"The Minute You're Gone" provided Richard with his eighth UK number one single. It was also his first UK chart topper he had recorded without

B-side. Although "Again" received a 4 star rating from Billboard, it had no chart success.[8][9]

Meanwhile, "The Minute You're Gone" became another international hit for Richard outside the Americas.

Chart performance

Chart (1965-1966) Peak
position
UK Singles (OCC)[10]
 1
Australia (Kent Music Report)[11] 6
Hong Kong[12] 2
Ireland (IRMA)[13] 2
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[14] 21
Malaysia[15] 1
Norway (VG-lista)[16] 6
Singapore[15] 1
South Africa[17] 8[A]
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[18] 19
Notes:

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 0-85112-250-7
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  2. ^
    AllMusic
  3. ^ a b "Epic (US record label) - 'The Minute You're Gone' credits". www.45cat.com. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
  4. ISBN 1-904994-10-5
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  5. ISBN 978-0-85712-360-2
    .
  6. ISSN 0006-2510
    .
  7. ISBN 0-7137-2242-8
    .
  8. ^ "The Cliff Richard Collectors Guide - Overseas Singles - United States". www.cliffrichardsongs.com. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
  9. ISSN 0006-2510
    .
  10. ^ "Cliff Richard: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company.
  11. ISBN 0-646-44439-5
    .
  12. ISSN 0006-2510. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help
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  13. ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – The Minute You're Gone". Irish Singles Chart.
  14. ^ "Cliff Richard – The Minute You're Gone" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
  15. ^
    ISSN 0006-2510. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help
    )
  16. ^ "Cliff Richard – The Minute You're Gone". VG-lista.
  17. ^ "SA Top 20 Charts". sacharts.wordpress.com. 13 November 2014. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  18. ^ Johansson, Carl-Owe (1980). Rock Around the Clock - Saturday Night Fever 1955-1978. Vara, Sweden: Dominique muzic-club.

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