Charly (song)

Not to be confused with Charlie § Songs.

"Charly"
Single by the Prodigy
from the album Experience
B-side
  • "Pandemonium"
  • "Your Love"
  • "Energy Flow (G-Force Part 1)"
Released12 August 1991 (1991-08-12)[1]
StudioC.W.S. (Essex, England)
Genre
Length
  • 3:56 (original version)
  • 5:27 (Alley Cat Mix)
  • 3:38 (Alley Cat 7-inch edit and video version)
  • 5:13 (Trip into Drum & Bass version)
Label
Songwriter(s)Liam Howlett
Producer(s)
  • Liam Howlett
  • Chaz Stevens
The Prodigy singles chronology
"Charly"
(1991) 		"Everybody in the Place"
(1991)
Music video
"Charly" on YouTube
Alternative cover
Digital cover

"Charly" is the debut single released by the British electronic act the Prodigy, later included on their debut album, Experience (1992), although the version featured on the album is the significantly different "Trip into Drum & Bass" remix.

It was released in the UK on 12 August 1991 through XL Recordings on vinyl, CD and cassette tape format. Almost a year later, it was released as a double A-side single with "Everybody in the Place" in the United States on 18 June 1992 through Elektra Records on CD, digipak and maxi-single format.

On 22 November 2004 the single was released on digital download format.[5] On 1 October 1992, "Charly" had sold over 200,000 copies in the UK which in turn enabled it a Silver BPI certification.[6] The Alley Cat Mix of "Charly" features as track number three on the expanded disc two of the band's debut album Experience. "Charly" appears on the band's compilation album Their Law: The Singles 1990–2005 as track number nine.

  1. ^ "New Releases: Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 10 August 1991. p. 19. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  2. ^ "XL Recordings: The American Chapter". AllMusic. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  3. ^ "9 of the most 90s things that ever happened to music - BBC Music". BBC.co.uk. 27 April 2018.
  4. ^ Crawford, David (2015). "The Prodigy - "Out of Space". In Dimery, Robert (ed.). 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die. New York: Universe. p. 690.
  5. ^ "XL Recordings Shop: The Prodigy - Charly 12" Vinyl". Archived from the original on 19 September 2009. Retrieved 19 October 2009.
  6. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 11 May 2011. Retrieved 9 May 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)