Wonderful to Be Young

"Wonderful to Be Young"
"Wonderful to Be Young"
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Single by Cliff Richard and the Shadows
from the album Wonderful to Be Young
B-side	"Got a Funny Feeling"
Released	September 1962
Recorded	20 July 1962
Studio	EMI Studios, London
Genre	Pop
Length	2:39
Label	Dot
Songwriter(s)	Hal David; Burt Bacharach;
Producer(s)	Norrie Paramor
Cliff Richard and the Shadows singles chronology

"Wonderful to Be Young" is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and released as a single by Cliff Richard and the Shadows in September 1962, from their album Wonderful to Be Young.

Background and release

For release in North America, Paramount Pictures decided to retitle and re-edit the film The Young Ones, in which Richard stars.^[2] A new opening sequence was commissioned as well as a new title song. With the film retitled Wonderful to Be Young!, songwriting duo Bacharach and David wrote the title track and it was recorded by Cliff Richard and the Shadows at EMI Studios, (later renamed Abbey Road Studios) and features piano by Max Harris and female backing vocals by the Mike Sammes Singers.^[1]

"Wonderful to Be Young" was only released as a single in the US and Canada, with the B-side "Got a Funny Feeling", written by the Shadows' Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch, which was previously released as the B-side to "When the Girl in Your Arms Is the Girl in Your Heart". The original version of "Wonderful to Be Young" has never been released in the UK; however, a remixed version was released on the 1964 EP A Forever Kind of Love, retitled "It's a Wonderful Life", and several different versions have been released since.^[3]

Track listing

"Wonderful to Be Young" – 2:39
"Got a Funny Feeling" – 2:54

Personnel

Cliff Richard – vocals
Hank Marvin – lead guitar
Bruce Welch – rhythm guitar
Brian Locking – bass guitar
Tony Meehan – drums
Max Harris – piano
The Mike Sammes Singers – backing vocals

Chart position

Chart (1962–63)	Peak position
Canada (Toronto CHUM)^[4]	16
Canada (Vancouver CFUN)^[5]	21

References

^ ^a ^b "Cliff Richard Song Database - Song Details (Wonderful To Be Young [Mono Album Version])". www.cliffrichardsongs.com. Retrieved 2021-10-02.
^ Turner, Steve (2008). Cliff Richard: the Biography: 50th Anniversary Edition. Lion Books. p. 201. ISBN 978-0-7459-5279-6.
^ "Cliff Richard Song Database - Song Details (Wonderful To Be Young [Alternate Mono EP Version])". www.cliffrichardsongs.com. Retrieved 2021-10-02.
^ "CHUM Hit Parade Week of November 19, 1962". 19 November 1962. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
^ "C-Funtastic Fifty Week of January 5, 1963". 5 January 1963. Retrieved 2 October 2021.

[:1-1] "Cliff Richard Song Database - Song Details (Wonderful To Be Young [Mono Album Version])". www.cliffrichardsongs.com. Retrieved 2021-10-02.

[2] Turner, Steve (2008). Cliff Richard: the Biography: 50th Anniversary Edition. Lion Books. p. 201. ISBN 978-0-7459-5279-6.

[3] "Cliff Richard Song Database - Song Details (Wonderful To Be Young [Alternate Mono EP Version])". www.cliffrichardsongs.com. Retrieved 2021-10-02.

[4] "CHUM Hit Parade Week of November 19, 1962". 19 November 1962. Retrieved 2 October 2021.

[5] "C-Funtastic Fifty Week of January 5, 1963". 5 January 1963. Retrieved 2 October 2021.

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v t e Cliff Richard singles discography
1950s	"Move It" (1958) "High Class Baby" (1958) "Livin' Lovin' Doll" (1959) "Mean Streak" (1959) "Living Doll" (1959) "Travellin' Light" / "Dynamite" (1959)
1960s	"A Voice in the Wilderness" (1960) "Fall in Love with You" (1960) "Please Don't Tease" (1960) "Nine Times Out of Ten" (1960) "I Love You" (1960) "Theme for a Dream" (1961) "Gee Whizz It's You" (1961) "A Girl Like You" (1961) "What'd I Say" (1961) "When the Girl in Your Arms Is the Girl in Your Heart" (1961) "Forty Days" (1961) "Outsider" (1962) "The Young Ones" / "We Say Yeah" (1962) "Catch Me" (1962) "I'm Lookin' Out the Window" / "Do You Want to Dance?" (1962) "Lessons in Love" (1962) "It'll Be Me" (1962) "Wonderful to Be Young" (1962) "The Next Time" / "Bachelor Boy" (1962) "Summer Holiday" (1963) "Lucky Lips" (1963) "It's All in the Game" (1963) "Don't Talk to Him" (1963) "Maria No Mas" (1963) "I'm the Lonely One" (1964) "I Only Have Eyes for You" (1964) "Constantly (L'Edera)" (1964) "On the Beach" (1964) "The Twelfth of Never" (1964) "I Could Easily Fall (In Love with You)" (1964) "The Minute You're Gone" (1965) "Angel" (1965) "On My Word" (1965) "The Time in Between" (1965) "Wind Me Up (Let Me Go)" (1965) "Blue Turns to Grey" (1966) "Visions" (1966) "Time Drags By" (1966) "In the Country" (1966) "It's All Over" (1967) "I'll Come Runnin'" (1967) "The Day I Met Marie" (1967)" "All My Love" (1967) "Congratulations" (1968) "I'll Love You Forever Today" (1968) "Wonderful World" (1968) "Marianne" (1968) "Don't Forget to Catch Me" (1968) "Good Times (Better Times)" (1969) "Big Ship" (1969) "Early in the Morning" (1969) "Throw Down a Line" (1969) "With the Eyes of a Child" (1969)
1970s	"The Joy of Living" (1970) "Goodbye Sam, Hello Samantha" (1970) "I Ain't Got Time Anymore" (1970) "Sunny Honey Girl" (1971) "Silvery Rain" (1971) "Flying Machine" (1971) "Sing a Song of Freedom" (1971) "Jesus" (1972) "Living in Harmony" (1972) "Power to All Our Friends" (1973) "Help It Along" (1973) "Take Me High" (1973) "(You Keep Me) Hangin' On" (1974) "Honky Tonk Angel" (1975) "Miss You Nights" (1976) "Devil Woman" (1976) "I Can't Ask for Anymore Than You" (1976) "Hey Mr. Dream Maker" (1976) "My Kinda Life" (1977) "When Two Worlds Drift Apart" (1977) "Green Light" (1979) "We Don't Talk Anymore" (1979)
1980s	"Carrie" (1980) "Dreamin'" (1980) "Suddenly" (1980) "A Little in Love" (1980) "Give a Little Bit More" (1981) "Wired for Sound" (1981) "Daddy's Home" (live) (1981) "The Only Way Out" (1982) "Little Town" (1982) "She Means Nothing to Me" (1983) "True Love Ways" (live) (1983) "Never Say Die (Give a Little Bit More)" (1983) "Please Don't Fall in Love" (1983) "Baby You're Dynamite" / "Ocean Deep" (1984) "Donna" (1984 US) "Two to the Power of Love" (1984) "Living Doll" (1986) "All I Ask of You" (1986) "Slow Rivers" (1986) "My Pretty One" (1987) "Some People" (1987) "Remember Me" (1987) "Two Hearts" (1988) "Mistletoe and Wine" (1988) "The Best of Me" (1989) "I Just Don't Have the Heart" (1989) "Lean on You" (1989) "Whenever God Shines His Light" (1989)
1990s	"Stronger Than That" (1990) "Silhouettes" (live) (1990) "From a Distance" (live) (1990) "Saviour's Day" (1990) "Scarlet Ribbons" (1991) "We Should Be Together" (1991) "I Still Believe in You" (1992) "Peace in Our Time" (1993) "All I Have to Do Is Dream" (live) / "Miss You Nights" (1994) "Can't Keep this Feeling In" (1998) "The Millennium Prayer" (1999)
2000s	"Somewhere Over the Rainbow"/"What a Wonderful World" (medley) (2001) "21st Century Christmas" / "Move It" (2006) "When I Need You" (2007) "Thank You for a Lifetime" (2008) "Singing the Blues" (2009)
2010s	"Rip It Up" (2013) "Since I Lost My Baby" (2014) "Roll Over Beethoven" (2016) "Blue Suede Shoes" (2017)