| "Ocean Deep" | ||||
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| Single by Cliff Richard | ||||
| from the album Silver | ||||
| B-side | "Baby You're Dynamite" (Extended Mix) | |||
| Released | May 1984 | |||
| Recorded | May–June 1983[1] | |||
| Studio | Strawberry Studios South (Dorking) | |||
| Genre | Soft rock | |||
| Length | 5:19 | |||
| Label | EMI Records | |||
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| Producer(s) | Craig Pruess | |||
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| Music video | ||||
| "Ocean Deep" on YouTube | ||||
"Ocean Deep" is a sentimental ballad written by Rod Trott and Jon Sweet and originally released in 1983 by British singer Cliff Richard on his album Silver. It was later released as a single in 1984 in the UK and South East Asia.
The song's release in the UK as the fourth single from Richard's Silver album was belated after initially being consigned to the B-side of the album's third single "Baby You're Dynamite". Although pressure was mounted from fans and disc-jockeys, it was only after "Baby You're Dynamite" had finished its chart run that the record company finally flipped the single, promoting "Ocean Deep" to the A-side. As the A-side, "Ocean Deep" only reached number 72 in a further 3 week run on the UK Singles Chart.[2] Despite having little chart success, the song quickly became a phenomenon among Richard's fans the world over, with fans voting the song as their favourite, 25 times out of 26 in the annual "Cliff Poll" of fans' favourite songs between 1984 (when it first appeared) and the final poll in 2009.[3]
The song broke through to the wider public in South East Asia, becoming very popular in the Philippines where it became one of the bigger hits of the 1980s and Richard's biggest hit in the region,[4][5] and in Hong Kong where it was also adapted into Cantonese for Frances Yip in 1985. The Cantonese version was then covered by Prudence Liew in 1989 for the lead single of her Jokingly Saying album.
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- ^ Lo, Ricky (17 February 2013). "Cliff Richard, The Young Once". The Philippine Star. Retrieved 6 February 2016.