Sometimes (Erasure song)

"Sometimes"
Single by Erasure
from the album The Circus
B-side	"Sexuality" "Say What"
Released	6 October 1986 (1986-10-06)
Recorded	1985–1986
Genre	Synth-pop dance-pop[1][2]
Length	3:38
Label	Mute (UK) Sire (US)
Songwriter(s)	Vince Clarke Andy Bell
Producer(s)	Flood
Erasure singles chronology
"Oh L'amour" (1986) "Sometimes" (1986) "It Doesn't Have to Be" (1987)
Music video
"Sometimes" on YouTube

"Sometimes" is a song by the English synth-pop duo Erasure, released on 6 October 1986 as their fourth single overall. Written by band members Vince Clarke and Andy Bell, it typifies the Erasure sound—an uptempo, dance-oriented pop tune accentuated by Clarke's phase distortion and analogue synthesizers and Bell's lyrics about being in love. The trumpet solo is performed by Guy Barker.^[3] After three commercial flops from their debut studio album Wonderland (1986), the single became Erasure's first bona fide hit, peaking at number one in South Africa, number two in their native United Kingdom and in Germany, and becoming a huge international hit. In the US, it became Erasure's second top-five hit on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, where it charted alongside "It Doesn't Have to Be" and peaked at number four. Peaking only at number 39 in the French Singles Chart, "Sometimes" still remains Erasure's last chart entry in France ever since. The single spent seventeen weeks in the UK singles chart—the duo's longest chart run for a single in that country—and was included on Erasure's second studio album The Circus (1987), released six months later in March 1987.