Claudette (song)

"Claudette"
Single by the Everly Brothers
B-side"All I Have to Do is Dream"
PublishedMarch 7, 1958 (1958-03-07)
ReleasedApril 1958
RecordedMarch 6, 1958
StudioRCA Studios, Nashville
GenreRock and roll, rockabilly
Length2:12
LabelCadence
Songwriter(s)Roy Orbison
Producer(s)Archie Bleyer
The Everly Brothers singles chronology
"This Little Girl of Mine"
(1958) 		"Claudette"
(1958) 		"Bird Dog"
(1958)

"Claudette" is a 1958 song which reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart that year in a recording by the Everly Brothers.[1] It was the first notable success as a songwriter for Roy Orbison, who named it after his first wife. Orbison also recorded his own version of the song.[2][3] Although originally released as the B-side to the Everly Brothers' number 1 hit "All I Have to Do is Dream", their recording of "Claudette" reached number 30 in its own right, and the two songs were jointly listed at number 1 in the UK.[1][4]

  1. ^ a b "Everly Brothers - full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
  2. ^ Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. pp. 37–8. ISBN 0-85112-250-7.
  3. ^ Aquila, Richard (2022-11-29). Rock & Roll in Kennedy's America: A Cultural History of the Early 1960s. JHU Press. p. 184. ISBN 978-1-4214-4498-7.
  4. ^ Spicer, Mark Stuart; Covach, John Rudolph (2010). Sounding Out Pop: Analytical Essays in Popular Music. University of Michigan Press. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-472-03400-0.