Romeo was a 1961 hit single for Petula Clark

Petula Clark

Petula Clark, CBE is an English singer, actress, and composer whose career has spanned seven decades.Clark's professional career began as an entertainer on BBC Radio during World War II...

 peaking at #3 on the UK chart

UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...

 dated 26 August.

The song was a 1921 composition by Robert Stolz

Robert Stolz

Robert Elisabeth Stolz was an Austrian songwriter and conductor as well as a composer of operettas and film music.- Biography :...

 for which Jimmy Kennedy

Jimmy Kennedy

Jimmy Kennedy OBE was an Irish songwriter, predominantly a lyricist, putting words to existing music such as "Teddy Bears' Picnic" and "My Prayer", or co-writing with the composers Michael Carr, Wilhelm Grosz and Nat Simon amongst others.-Biography:Kennedy was born near Omagh...

 wrote a new lyric. The original featured a German lyric by Arthur Rebner and was known as both "Salome" and "Romeo" to accommodate singers of either gender.

Rebner is sometimes credited as one of the writers of the Petula Clark song.

"Romeo" was produced by Alan Freeman

Alan Freeman

Alan Leslie "Fluff" Freeman, MBE was a British disc jockey and radio personality in the United Kingdom for 40 years.-Career:...

 and featured Big Jim Sullivan

Big Jim Sullivan

Big Jim Sullivan is an English musician, whose career started in 1959. He is best known as a session guitarist. In the 1960s and 1970s, Sullivan was one of the most "in-demand" studio musicians in the UK, and performed in more than one thousand charting singles over his career...

 on guitar.http://www.overzeal.co.uk/

Despite peaking lower than her #1 UK comeback hit "Sailor

Sailor (Song)

Sailor is a song written by Werner Scharfenberger and Fini Busch which via a 1960 recording by Lolita became an international hit, with its #5 peak on the Hot 100 chart in Billboard making "Sailor" the most successful American hit sung in German until 99 Luftballons by Nena in 1984.With English...

", "Romeo" earned Clark her first Gold record

Music recording sales certification

Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,...

by selling 400,000 units in the UK. In Ireland "Romeo" reached #1.