Our Day Will Come
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"Our Day Will Come" is a popular song composed by Bob Hilliard
and Mort Garson
which was a #1 hit in 1963
for Ruby & The Romantics
.
act and only agreed to let the new R&B group Ruby & the Romantics record the song after Kapp Records
A&R director Al Stanton promised that if the Ruby & the Romantics' single failed Kapp would record the song with Jack Jones
. Stanton cut two versions of "Our Day Will Come" with Ruby & the Romantics, one with a mid-tempo arrangement and the other in a bossa nova
style; the latter version, featuring a classic Hammond organ
solo, was selected for release as a single in December 1962 to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100
in March. A #1 R&B hit, "Our Day Will Come" was also a chart item in Australia (#11) and the UK (#38).
May 1963 album release The End of the World included "Our Day Will Come" as did the September 1963 Patti Page
album release Say Wonderful Things
. Mort Garson himself arranged Doris Day
's 1965 version of "Our Day Will Come" featured on the album Latin for Lovers
.
A version of "Our Day Will Come" will be released on Amy Winehouse
new album Lioness: Hidden Treasures
, it will be released as a single on December 5, 2011.
1960s' recording acts frequently covered
"Our Day Will Come" as an album track, as per Fontella Bass
, Jerry Butler
and Betty Everett
, Classics IV
, Bobby Darin
, the Earls, Billy Fury
, Brenda Lee
, Lennon Sisters, the Lettermen
, Trini Lopez
, Chris Montez
, Cliff Richard
, Bobby Rydell
, Dee Dee Sharp
, Spiral Starecase
, the Supremes
, the Vibrations
, We Five
and Nancy Wilson.
A version of "Our Day Will Come" was recorded in 1965 by the Supremes
for the album There's a Place for Us
which was to go unreleased until 2004; Mary Wilson
is given a rare lead vocal on the track.
Cher
included "Our Day Will Come" on her February 1966 album release The Sonny Side of Chér
; serving as the B-side
of the hit "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
", Cher's "Our Day Will Come" was issued as an A-side single in November 1972 following its inclusion on a United Artists
compilation disc entitled Cher but the single did not chart.
Julie Rogers
' 1965 UK hit "Like a Child" utilized "Our Day Will Come" as its B-side. A non-charting UK single release for Sharon Tandy
in 1967, "Our Day Will Come" was also featured on albums by Billy Fury
, the Honeycombs
and Cliff Richard
.
Later versions of "Our Day Will Come" include those by Isaac Hayes
(...To Be Continued
/1970), Bobby Vinton
(Sealed with a Kiss
/1972), the Carpenters
(Now & Then/1973), Carl Carlton
(Everlasting Love/1974), Esther Phillips
(Here's Esther Are You Ready/1979) and Dionne Warwick
(Heartbreaker
/1982). Frankie Valli
remade "Our Day Will Come" in rock
-disco
style as the title cut for his November 1975 album release from which it was issued as a single to reach #11; as with Valli's precedent hit "Swearin' to God" his "Our Day Will Come" features a vocal solo by Patti Austin
.
k.d. lang
recorded "Our Day Will Come" for the soundtrack of the 1989 film Shag
.
Christina Aguilera
recorded "Our Day Will Come" as a demo
in 1996; the track was included on the 2001 album release Just Be Free
.
Instrumental versions of "Our Day Will Come" have been recorded by Herb Alpert
& The Tijuana Brass, Willie Bobo
, Jimmy Castor
, Percy Faith
, Buddy Merrill
, Ronald Muldrow
, Sonny Stitt
and Cal Tjader
.
Amy Winehouse
. It is the first single from her posthumous album Lioness: Hidden Treasures
. The song was originally recorded for her first studio album, Frank
but was shelved and is the first solo single to be released from Winehouse since Love Is A Losing Game
in 2007. It received its first airplay on The Chris Moyles Show
at 8:00 AM GMT on 3 November 2011.
Bob Hilliard
Bob Hilliard was an American lyricist. He wrote the words for the songs; "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning", "Any Day Now", "Dear Hearts and Gentle People", "Our Day Will Come", "My Little Corner of the World", and "Seven Little Girls ".-Career:Born in New York City, New York, and after...
and Mort Garson
Mort Garson
Mort Garson who was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, was an electronic musician best known for his albums that predominantly feature Moog synthesizers.-Early life:...
which was a #1 hit in 1963
1963 in music
-Events:*January 1 – The Beatles start a 5-day tour in Scotland to support the release of their new single, "Love Me Do".*January 4 – At Cortina d'Ampezzo in Italy, Dalida receives a Juke Box Global Oscar for the year's most-played artist on juke boxes....
for Ruby & The Romantics
Ruby & the Romantics
Ruby & the Romantics was an American R&B group in the 1960s. They had several pop and R&B hit records, but are sometimes considered as a one-hit wonder for topping the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1963 with their first recording, "Our Day Will Come", written by Mort Garson and Bob Hilliard...
.
Ruby & the Romantics
The song's composers were hoping to place "Our Day Will Come" with an established easy listeningEasy listening
Easy listening is a broad style of popular music and radio format that emerged in the 1950s, evolving out of big band music, and related to MOR music as played on many AM radio stations. It encompasses the exotica, beautiful music, light music, lounge music, ambient music, and space age pop genres...
act and only agreed to let the new R&B group Ruby & the Romantics record the song after Kapp Records
Kapp Records
Kapp Records was an independent record label started in 1954 by David Kapp, brother of Jack Kapp . David Kapp founded his own label after stints with Decca Records and RCA Victor Records. Kapp licensed its records to London Records for release in the UK.In 1967, David Kapp sold his label to MCA Inc...
A&R director Al Stanton promised that if the Ruby & the Romantics' single failed Kapp would record the song with Jack Jones
Jack Jones (singer)
John Allan "Jack" Jones is an American jazz and pop singer. He was one of the most popular vocalists of the 1960s.-Overview:...
. Stanton cut two versions of "Our Day Will Come" with Ruby & the Romantics, one with a mid-tempo arrangement and the other in a bossa nova
Bossa nova
Bossa nova is a style of Brazilian music. Bossa nova acquired a large following in the 1960s, initially consisting of young musicians and college students...
style; the latter version, featuring a classic Hammond organ
Hammond organ
The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s it became a standard keyboard...
solo, was selected for release as a single in December 1962 to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
in March. A #1 R&B hit, "Our Day Will Come" was also a chart item in Australia (#11) and the UK (#38).
Other versions
Composers Mort Garson and Bob Hilliard were soon granted their wish for "Our Day Will Come" to be recorded by an easy listening star as the Julie LondonJulie London
Julie London was an American singer and actress. She was best known for her smoky, sensual voice. London was at her singing career's peak in the 1950s. Her acting career lasted more than 35 years...
May 1963 album release The End of the World included "Our Day Will Come" as did the September 1963 Patti Page
Patti Page
Clara Ann Fowler , known by her professional name Patti Page, is an American singer, one of the best-known female artists in traditional pop music. She was the best-selling female artist of the 1950s, and has sold over 100 million records...
album release Say Wonderful Things
Say Wonderful Things (album)
Say Wonderful Things was a 1963 LP album by Patti Page, released by Columbia Records as catalog numbers CL 2049 and CS 8849 . The album was Page's first LP for Columbia after her long and successful tenure on Mercury Records...
. Mort Garson himself arranged Doris Day
Doris Day
Doris Day is an American actress, singer and, since her retirement from show business, an animal rights activist. With an entertainment career that spanned through almost 50 years, Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording,...
's 1965 version of "Our Day Will Come" featured on the album Latin for Lovers
Latin for Lovers
Latin for Lovers was a Doris Day album, mostly composed of songs originating in Latin America, released by Columbia Records on March 22, 1965 as a monophonic LP and a stereophonic album ....
.
A version of "Our Day Will Come" will be released on Amy Winehouse
Amy Winehouse
Amy Jade Winehouse was an English singer-songwriter known for her powerful deep contralto vocals and her eclectic mix of musical genres including R&B, soul and jazz. Winehouse's 2003 debut album, Frank, was critically successful in the UK and was nominated for the Mercury Prize...
new album Lioness: Hidden Treasures
Lioness: Hidden Treasures
-Release history:...
, it will be released as a single on December 5, 2011.
1960s' recording acts frequently covered
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
"Our Day Will Come" as an album track, as per Fontella Bass
Fontella Bass
Fontella Bass is an American soul singer, who is best known for the 1965 R&B hit "Rescue Me", which she also co-wrote.-Early life:...
, Jerry Butler
Jerry Butler (singer)
Jerry Butler is an American soul singer and songwriter. He is also noted as being the original lead singer of the R&B vocal group, The Impressions, as well as a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.Butler is also an American politician...
and Betty Everett
Betty Everett
Betty Everett was an African-American soul singer and pianist, best known for her biggest hit single, the million-selling "The Shoop Shoop Song ".-Early career:...
, Classics IV
Classics IV
The Classics IV were a band formed in Jacksonville, Florida, United States, in 1965, given credit for beginning the "soft southern rock" sound...
, Bobby Darin
Bobby Darin
Bobby Darin , born Walden Robert Cassotto, was an American singer, actor and musician.Darin performed in a range of music genres, including pop, rock, jazz, folk and country...
, the Earls, Billy Fury
Billy Fury
Billy Fury, born Ronald William Wycherley , was an internationally successful English singer from the late-1950s to the mid-1960s, and remained an active songwriter until the 1980s. Rheumatic fever, which he first contracted as a child, damaged his heart and ultimately contributed to his death...
, Brenda Lee
Brenda Lee
Brenda Mae Tarpley , known as Brenda Lee, is an American performer who sang rockabilly, pop and country music, and had 37 US chart hits during the 1960s, a number surpassed only by Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Ray Charles and Connie Francis...
, Lennon Sisters, the Lettermen
The Lettermen
The Lettermen are an American male pop music vocal trio. The Lettermen's trademark is close-harmony pop songs with light arrangements. The group started in 1959...
, Trini Lopez
Trini Lopez
Trini Lopez is an American singer, guitarist and actor.-Career:Lopez was born in Dallas, Texas, on Ashland Street in the Little Mexico neighborhood. He began his entertainment career in Dallas playing at the Vegas Club, a nightclub owned by Jack Ruby...
, Chris Montez
Chris Montez
Chris Montez , is an American singer.-Early life:Montez grew up in Hawthorne, California, influenced by the Latino-flavored music of his community and the success of Ritchie Valens....
, Cliff Richard
Cliff Richard
Sir Cliff Richard, OBE is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor, and philanthropist who has sold over an estimated 250 million records worldwide....
, Bobby Rydell
Bobby Rydell
Bobby Rydell is an American professional singer, mainly of rock and roll music. In the early 1960s he was considered a so-called "teen idol"...
, Dee Dee Sharp
Dee Dee Sharp
Dee Dee Sharp is an American R&B singer, who began her career recording as a backing vocalist in 1961.-Career:...
, Spiral Starecase
Spiral Starecase
The Spiral Starecase was an American band, best known as a one-hit wonder for their 1969 single "More Today Than Yesterday".The band, from Sacramento, California, was a popular 1960s group, recognizable for its horns and lead singer/guitarist Pat Upton's distinctive voice...
, the Supremes
The Supremes
The Supremes, an American female singing group, were the premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s.Originally founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, in 1959, The Supremes' repertoire included doo-wop, pop, soul, Broadway show tunes, psychedelic soul, and disco...
, the Vibrations
The Vibrations
The Vibrations were an African-American soul vocal group from Los Angeles, California, active from the mid-1950s to 1976. Most notable among the group's hit singles were "My Girl Sloopy" and "Love in Them Thar Hills"...
, We Five
We Five
We Five was a 1960s folk rock musical group based in San Francisco, California. Their best-known hit was their 1965 remake of Ian and Sylvia's "You Were on My Mind", which reached #1 on the Cashbox chart, #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart...
and Nancy Wilson.
A version of "Our Day Will Come" was recorded in 1965 by the Supremes
The Supremes
The Supremes, an American female singing group, were the premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s.Originally founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, in 1959, The Supremes' repertoire included doo-wop, pop, soul, Broadway show tunes, psychedelic soul, and disco...
for the album There's a Place for Us
There's a Place for Us
There's a Place for Us is an album recorded by Motown girl group The Supremes in 1965, for many years the most famous of the trio's unreleased albums...
which was to go unreleased until 2004; Mary Wilson
Mary Wilson (singer)
Mary Wilson is an American singer, formerlymember of the Motown female singing group The Supremes during the 1960s and 1970s. Wilson was the only singer to be a consistent member of the group in its eighteen-year tenure...
is given a rare lead vocal on the track.
Cher
Cher
Cher is an American recording artist, television personality, actress, director, record producer and philanthropist. Referred to as the Goddess of Pop, she has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globes and a Cannes Film Festival Award among others for her work in...
included "Our Day Will Come" on her February 1966 album release The Sonny Side of Chér
The Sonny Side of Cher
-Credits:*Cher - lead vocals*Sonny Bono - record producer*Harold Battiste - musical arranger*Larry Levine - sound engineer*Stan Ross - sound engineer*Woody Woodward - art direction-Chart positions:...
; serving as the B-side
A-side and B-side
A-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of gramophone records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s. The terms have come to refer to the types of song conventionally placed on each side of the record, with the A-side being the featured song , while the B-side, or...
of the hit "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
"Bang Bang " is the second single by singer-actress Cher from her second studio album The Sonny Side of Chér. The song was written by Sonny Bono and released in 1966. The song reached number three in the UK Singles Chart and number two on the Billboard Hot 100...
", Cher's "Our Day Will Come" was issued as an A-side single in November 1972 following its inclusion on a United Artists
United Artists
United Artists Corporation is an American film studio. The original studio of that name was founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks....
compilation disc entitled Cher but the single did not chart.
Julie Rogers
Julie Rogers (singer)
Julie Rogers is an English pop singer. She is best known for her multi-million selling song, "The Wedding".-Career:...
' 1965 UK hit "Like a Child" utilized "Our Day Will Come" as its B-side. A non-charting UK single release for Sharon Tandy
Sharon Tandy
Sharon Tandy is a South African singer who achieved somesuccess in the United Kingdom in the 1960s as part of the blue-eyed soul and freakbeat movements. In 1966, she recorded some songs at Stax studios, a rarity for a white singer...
in 1967, "Our Day Will Come" was also featured on albums by Billy Fury
Billy Fury
Billy Fury, born Ronald William Wycherley , was an internationally successful English singer from the late-1950s to the mid-1960s, and remained an active songwriter until the 1980s. Rheumatic fever, which he first contracted as a child, damaged his heart and ultimately contributed to his death...
, the Honeycombs
The Honeycombs
The Honeycombs were an English beat/pop group, founded in 1963 in North London. The group had one chart-topping hit, the million selling "Have I the Right?", in 1964. After that song the interest in the group ebbed away, and they split up in late 1966...
and Cliff Richard
Cliff Richard
Sir Cliff Richard, OBE is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor, and philanthropist who has sold over an estimated 250 million records worldwide....
.
Later versions of "Our Day Will Come" include those by Isaac Hayes
Isaac Hayes
Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. was an American songwriter, musician, singer and actor. Hayes was one of the creative influences behind the southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served both as an in-house songwriter and as a record producer, teaming with his partner David Porter during the...
(...To Be Continued
...To Be Continued
...To Be Continued is a studio album by American soul musician Isaac Hayes, issued in 1970 on Stax Records' Enterprise label. The LP includes Hayes' cover of the Burt Bacharach/Hal David composition "The Look of Love", which was issued as a single in an edited form, peaking at #79 on the Billboard...
/1970), Bobby Vinton
Bobby Vinton
Bobby Vinton is an American pop music singer of Polish origin. In pop music circles, he became known as "The Polish Prince".-Early life:...
(Sealed with a Kiss
Sealed with a Kiss (Bobby Vinton album)
-Album credits:*Produced by Bobby Vinton*Production coordinator: John Walsh*Arranged and conducted by Al Capps*Engineering: Phil Macy*Special thanks to Pete Bennett*Cover photos: David Sutton-Charts:Album - Billboard...
/1972), the Carpenters
The Carpenters
Carpenters were an American vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of sister Karen and brother Richard Carpenter. The Carpenters were the #1 selling American music act of the 1970s. Though often referred to by the public as "The Carpenters", the duo's official name on authorized recordings and...
(Now & Then/1973), Carl Carlton
Carl Carlton
Carl Carlton is an American R&B, soul, and funk singer and songwriter, best known for his hits "Everlasting Love" and "She's a Bad Mama Jama ".-Career:...
(Everlasting Love/1974), Esther Phillips
Esther Phillips
Esther Phillips was an American singer. Phillips was known for her R&B vocals, but she was a versatile singer, also performing pop, country, jazz, blues and soul music.-Early life:...
(Here's Esther Are You Ready/1979) and Dionne Warwick
Dionne Warwick
Dionne Warwick is an American singer, actress and TV show host, who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Ambassador of Health....
(Heartbreaker
Heartbreaker (Dionne Warwick album)
Heartbreaker is an album by Dionne Warwick, her fourth for the Arista label. It was released in 1982 and features the hit single "Heartbreaker", penned by the Bee Gees. Barry Gibb produced the album with Karl Richardson and Albhy Galuten. The album was certified gold in the United States for sales...
/1982). Frankie Valli
Frankie Valli
Frankie Valli is an American musician, most famous as frontman of The Four Seasons. He is well-known for his unusually powerful falsetto singing voice...
remade "Our Day Will Come" in rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
-disco
Disco
Disco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...
style as the title cut for his November 1975 album release from which it was issued as a single to reach #11; as with Valli's precedent hit "Swearin' to God" his "Our Day Will Come" features a vocal solo by Patti Austin
Patti Austin
-Life and career:Austin was born in Harlem, New York. She made her debut at the Apollo Theater at age four and had a contract with RCA Records when she was only five. Quincy Jones and Dinah Washington have proclaimed themselves as her godparents....
.
k.d. lang
K.D. Lang
Kathryn Dawn Lang, OC , known by her stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress...
recorded "Our Day Will Come" for the soundtrack of the 1989 film Shag
Shag (1989 film)
Shag is a 1989 comedy film starring Bridget Fonda, Phoebe Cates, Annabeth Gish, Page Hannah, Jeff Yagher and Scott Coffey. The film features Carolina shag dancing and was produced in cooperation with the North Carolina Film Commission. The soundtrack album was on Sire/Warner Bros...
.
Christina Aguilera
Christina Aguilera
Christina María Aguilera is an American recording artist and actress. Aguilera first appeared on national television in 1990 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The Mickey Mouse Club from 1993–1994...
recorded "Our Day Will Come" as a demo
Demo (music)
A demo version or demo of a song is one recorded for reference rather than for release. A demo is a way for a musician to approximate their ideas on tape or disc, and provide an example of those ideas to record labels, producers or other artists...
in 1996; the track was included on the 2001 album release Just Be Free
Just Be Free
Just Be Free is a demo album released by Warlock Records featuring music recorded by American recording artist Christina Aguilera. The music was recorded when Aguilera was 15 and had met Roberts Alleca and Michael Brown, the pair gave Aguilera the opportunity to use a recording studio and they...
.
Instrumental versions of "Our Day Will Come" have been recorded by Herb Alpert
Herb Alpert
Herbert "Herb" Alpert is an American musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, or TJB. He is also a recording industry executive — he is the "A" of A&M Records...
& The Tijuana Brass, Willie Bobo
Willie Bobo
Willie Bobo was the stage name of William Correa , an American jazz percussionist.-Biography:William Correa grew up in Spanish Harlem, New York City. He made his name in Latin Jazz, specifically Afro-Cuban jazz, in the 1960s and '70s, with the timbales becoming his favoured instrument...
, Jimmy Castor
Jimmy Castor
Jimmy Castor is an American pop and funk musician. He is best known as a fun disco/funk saxophonist, with his biggest hit single being 1972's million seller, "Troglodyte ".-Career:...
, Percy Faith
Percy Faith
Percy Faith was a Canadian-born American bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor, known for his lush arrangements of pop and Christmas standards. He is often credited with creating the "easy listening" or "mood music" format which became staples of American popular music in the 1950s and...
, Buddy Merrill
Buddy Merrill
Buddy Merrill is an American guitar player and musician who was best known as a regular on The Lawrence Welk Show. His style of guitar playing is known as multi-tracking.- Early Beginnings :...
, Ronald Muldrow
Ronald Muldrow
Ronald Muldrow was a soul jazz and hard bop jazz guitarist.As an emerging jazz guitarist in the early 1970s, Muldrow connected with soul-jazz saxophonist Eddie Harris on albums such as That Is Why You're Overweight and Listen Here .A teenage Muldrow heard jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery play...
, Sonny Stitt
Sonny Stitt
Edward "Sonny" Stitt was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom. He was also one of the best-documented saxophonists of his generation, recording over 100 albums in his lifetime...
and Cal Tjader
Cal Tjader
Callen Radcliffe Tjader, Jr. a.k.a. Cal Tjader was a Latin jazz musician, though he also explored various other jazz idioms. Unlike other American jazz musicians who experimented with the music from Cuba, the Caribbean, and Latin America, he never abandoned it, performing it until his...
.
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(2011)
Amy Winehouse version
The song was covered by English singer-songwriterSinger-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
Amy Winehouse
Amy Winehouse
Amy Jade Winehouse was an English singer-songwriter known for her powerful deep contralto vocals and her eclectic mix of musical genres including R&B, soul and jazz. Winehouse's 2003 debut album, Frank, was critically successful in the UK and was nominated for the Mercury Prize...
. It is the first single from her posthumous album Lioness: Hidden Treasures
Lioness: Hidden Treasures
-Release history:...
. The song was originally recorded for her first studio album, Frank
Frank (Amy Winehouse album)
Frank is the debut studio album by English recording artist Amy Winehouse, released 20 October 2003 on Island Records. Production for the album took place during 2002 to 2003 and was handled by Winehouse, Salaam Remi, Commissioner Gordon, Jimmy Hogarth and Matt Rowe...
but was shelved and is the first solo single to be released from Winehouse since Love Is A Losing Game
Love Is a Losing Game
"Love Is a Losing Game" is a song written and recorded by English singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse for her second album Back to Black . The track was chosen as the fifth single from the album. It was her last single before her death in July of 2011. The single was released on December 10, 2007 in...
in 2007. It received its first airplay on The Chris Moyles Show
The Chris Moyles Show
The Chris Moyles Show is the current BBC Radio 1 breakfast show in the UK, and has been since Chris Moyles became the station's breakfast show presenter on 5 January 2004. From 2004 to 2007, the show was broadcast 6:55–10:00 am each weekday, but since 15 October 2007 it has started from...
at 8:00 AM GMT on 3 November 2011.