Whatever Gets You Through the Day
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Whatever Gets You Through the Day is the third (and so-far final) album
released by UK
duo Lighthouse Family
in 2001 on Wildcard / Polydor
. The album produced one Top 10 hit "(I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be) Free / One", one Top 30 hit "Run" and one Top 60 single "Happy". It reached Platinum status.
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
released by UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
duo Lighthouse Family
Lighthouse Family
Lighthouse Family are a British musical duo that rose to prominence in the mid-1990s and remained active until the early 2000s. Vocalist Tunde Baiyewu and keyboardist Paul Tucker formed the act in 1993 in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK after meeting while studying at university...
in 2001 on Wildcard / Polydor
Polydor Records
Polydor is a record label owned by Universal Music Group, headquartered in the United Kingdom.-Beginnings:Polydor was originally an independent branch of the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft. Its name was first used as an export label in 1924, the British and German branches of the Gramophone...
. The album produced one Top 10 hit "(I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be) Free / One", one Top 30 hit "Run" and one Top 60 single "Happy". It reached Platinum status.
Track listing
| # | Title | Chart comment | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Run Run (Lighthouse Family song) "Run" is a song by British duo Lighthouse Family, released as the second single from their third album Whatever Gets You Through the Day . The song is produced by Kevin Bacon and Jonathan Quarmby... " |
February 2002, entered chart at #30. | 4:01 |
| 2 | "Happy Happy (Lighthouse Family song) "Happy" is a song by Lighthouse Family, which was released as a single in July 2002. The song was the third pop single written by British duo Lighthouse Family for their third album Whatever Gets You Through the Day . The song was produced by Kevin Bacon and Jonathan Quarmby... " |
July 2002, entered chart at #51. | 4:35 |
| 3 | "(I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be) Free / One (I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be) Free / One " Free / One" is a song by Lighthouse Family, released as their first single from their third album, Whatever Gets You Through the Day, released in 2001. The song was originally written by Billy Taylor, with lyrics by Dick Dallas... " |
November 2001, entered chart at #6. | 5:16 |
| 4 | "End of the Sky" | 5:57 | |
| 5 | "Life's a Dream" | 4:56 | |
| 6 | "It's a Beautiful Day" | 4:51 | |
| 7 | "You're a Star" | 4:35 | |
| 8 | "You Always Want What You Haven't Got" | 3:52 | |
| 9 | "Wish" | 5:09 | |
| 10 | "Whatever Gets You Through the Day" | 4:40 |
Charts
| Country | Date | Position | Sales | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... |
November 2001 | 7 | 0.3 million+ | Platinum |
| Austria Austria Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the... |
December 2001 | 21 | -- | -- |
| Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition.... |
December 2001 | 29 | -- | -- |
| Netherlands Netherlands The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders... |
January 2002 | 88 | -- | -- |