When You Walk in the Room

"When You Walk in the Room"
Single by Jackie DeShannon
from the album Breakin' It Up on The Beatles Tour!
A-side"Till You Say You'll Be Mine"
ReleasedNovember 23, 1963 (1963-11-23)
Recorded1963
GenrePop
Length2:35
LabelLiberty 55645
Songwriter(s)Jackie DeShannon
Producer(s)Dick Glasser
Jackie DeShannon singles chronology
"Little Yellow Roses"
(1963)
"Till You Say You'll Be Mine" / "When You Walk in the Room"
(1963)
"Oh Boy"
(1964)

"When You Walk in the Room" is a song written and recorded by Jackie DeShannon. It was initially released as a single on November 23, 1963,[1] as the B-side to "Till You Say You'll Be Mine". It was re-released as an A-side in September 1964, and later included on the album Breakin' It Up on the Beatles Tour. The single charted on the US Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 99.[2]

The song has been covered by many other artists including The Searchers, whose version reached number 3 in the UK in 1964. Other versions, all of which made the British charts though less successfully, were recorded by Paul Carrack in 1987, Status Quo in 1996, and Agnetha Fältskog in 2004.

  1. ^ RCS Chronological Index For November 1963
  2. ^ "Jackie DeShannon: Charted Singles". Allmusic. Retrieved 3 September 2010.