| "The Minute You're Gone" | ||||
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 Cover of the single released in the Netherlands | ||||
| Single by Cliff Richard | ||||
| B-side | "Just Another Guy" | |||
| Released | 5 March 1965 | |||
| Recorded | 25 August 1964[1] | |||
| Studio | Columbia (Nashville, Tennessee) | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 2:19 | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Jimmy Gateley[1][2] | |||
| Producer(s) | Billy Sherrill, Bob Morgan[3] | |||
| Cliff Richard singles chronology | ||||
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"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 This song originally made No. 95 in the US charts and No. 9 in the country charts for Sonny James in 1963.[1][2]
Cliff Richard recorded it in 1964 and his single spent a week at number one in the UK Singles Chart in April 1965.[1][4]
It was also recorded by Al Martino, Faron Young and Loretta Lynn.
- ^ a b c d Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p. 91. ISBN 0-85112-250-7.
- ^ a b Jimmy Gately at AllMusic
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