You're the One (Petula Clark song)
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"You're the One" is a song by Petula Clark
. It was later also included on the 1965 album I Know a Place
. Written by Clark with her regular songwriter/ producer Tony Hatch
, "You're the One" was a Top 30 UK hit for Clark herself but was most successful as a Top Ten US single release by the Vogues
.
As was standard with Clark's tracks produced by Hatch, "You're the One" was recorded at Pye Studios in Marble Arch
. Hatch also conducted for the session whose personnel featured Bobby Graham
on drums, Big Jim Sullivan
on guitar and the Breakaways
vocal group.
Originally there were no plans to issue a follow-up to the "I Know a Place
" single off its parent album; instead two newly recorded Petula Clark singles were consecutively released: "You'd Better Come Home" and "Round Every Corner
" both of which barely made the UK Top 50. Both singles were substantially more successful in the US where each neared the Top 20 in respectively the summer and autumn of 1965. However the US chart impact of Clark's own singles in the latter half of 1965 paled next to that of a recording of Clark's composition "You're the One" by the Vogues
which reached #4 US that autumn.
Recorded at Gate Way Studios in Pittsburgh, "You're the One" was the first track to be credited to the Vogues although the group had previously recorded as the Val-Aires. Pittsburgh-based record producer Nick Cenci had already cut "You're the One" with a local band called the Racket Squad; after hearing the Val-Aires audition tape, Cenci decided that that group's lead singer Bill Burkette could sing "You're the One" more effectively than Racket Squad vocalist Sonny DiNunzio. Accordingly DiNunzio's vocals were erased from the master so that Burkette could record a fresh vocal over the instrumentation played by the Racket Squad's members.
Cenci himself approached Jim Rook, program director of KQV
, with the Vogues' "You're the One" and KQV became the first radio station to play the record which entered the KQV "Finest Forty" chart in July 1965 and that August broke in Detroit and San Diego prior to breaking nationally that September.
The burgeoning success of the Vogues' "You're the One" had alerted Petula Clark's UK label: Pye Records
, to the track's hit potential with Pye rush releasing Clark's own version as a single which entered the UK charts in November 1965 and peaked at #23. According to Chuck Blasco of the Vogues, Clark's US label: Warner Bros.
, had also intended to issue Clark's version as a single to vie with the Vogues' version in the US but Clark had vetoed the idea saying: "Let the boys have the hit."
The Vogues' version did have a UK release on London Records
but did not garner enough interest to share the UK charts with Clark's version.
"You're the One" also charted for Clark in Australia at #4 and in the Netherlands at #30. The Vogues' version was a Top Ten hit in Canada (#4) and New Zealand.
Unique among Clark's hit singles as the only English language hit in which she had a hand in writing, "You're the One" was rendered by Clark in French, German and Italian; the French version was entitled "Un Mal Pour Un Bien" (French #6), the German "Deine Liebe ist wunderbar".
Clark performed the song live in the 1965 concert film The Big TNT Show.
Rocky Sharpe
and the Replays remade "You're the One" on their 1981 album release Come On Let's Go.
A Finnish rendering of "You're the One": "Sinä Vain", was a 1966 single release for Eero.
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...
. It was later also included on the 1965 album I Know a Place
I Know A Place (Petula Clark album)
I Know a Place is an album release by Petula Clark, which in the USA charted at #42. In the UK, the album was released as The New Petula Clark Album, a name which was dropped during later re-releases to prevent audiences from confusion.Arranged and produced by Tony Hatch, the album followed on the...
. Written by Clark with her regular songwriter/ producer Tony Hatch
Tony Hatch
Anthony Peter "Tony" Hatch is an English composer, songwriter, pianist, music arranger and producer.-Early life and early career:...
, "You're the One" was a Top 30 UK hit for Clark herself but was most successful as a Top Ten US single release by the Vogues
The Vogues
The Vogues are an American vocal group from Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh. The original group consisted of Bill Burkette , Don Miller , Hugh Geyer and Chuck Blasko .-Career:...
.
As was standard with Clark's tracks produced by Hatch, "You're the One" was recorded at Pye Studios in Marble Arch
Marble Arch
Marble Arch is a white Carrara marble monument that now stands on a large traffic island at the junction of Oxford Street, Park Lane, and Edgware Road, almost directly opposite Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park in London, England...
. Hatch also conducted for the session whose personnel featured Bobby Graham
Bobby Graham
Bobby Graham was an English session drummer, composer, arranger and record producer. Shel Talmy, who produced The Kinks, David Bowie and The Who, described Graham as "the greatest drummer the UK has ever produced."...
on drums, 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 and the Breakaways
The Breakaways
The Breakaways were an English female vocal trio, formed in 1962. Britain's premiere session vocalists throughout the 1960s, The Breakaways also recorded a handful of little known girl group singles.-Career:...
vocal group.
Originally there were no plans to issue a follow-up to the "I Know a Place
I Know a Place
"I Know a Place" is a song with music and lyrics by Tony Hatch. It was recorded in 1965 by Petula Clark at the Pye Studios in Marble Arch in a session which featured drummer Bobby Graham and the Breakaways vocal group....
" single off its parent album; instead two newly recorded Petula Clark singles were consecutively released: "You'd Better Come Home" and "Round Every Corner
Round Every Corner
"Round Every Corner", with words and music by Tony Hatch, is a single release by Petula Clark recorded in July 1965 at the Pye Studios in Marble Arch...
" both of which barely made the UK Top 50. Both singles were substantially more successful in the US where each neared the Top 20 in respectively the summer and autumn of 1965. However the US chart impact of Clark's own singles in the latter half of 1965 paled next to that of a recording of Clark's composition "You're the One" by the Vogues
The Vogues
The Vogues are an American vocal group from Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh. The original group consisted of Bill Burkette , Don Miller , Hugh Geyer and Chuck Blasko .-Career:...
which reached #4 US that autumn.
Recorded at Gate Way Studios in Pittsburgh, "You're the One" was the first track to be credited to the Vogues although the group had previously recorded as the Val-Aires. Pittsburgh-based record producer Nick Cenci had already cut "You're the One" with a local band called the Racket Squad; after hearing the Val-Aires audition tape, Cenci decided that that group's lead singer Bill Burkette could sing "You're the One" more effectively than Racket Squad vocalist Sonny DiNunzio. Accordingly DiNunzio's vocals were erased from the master so that Burkette could record a fresh vocal over the instrumentation played by the Racket Squad's members.
Cenci himself approached Jim Rook, program director of KQV
KQV
KQV is a radio station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The station, which is the only broadcast station owned by Calvary, Inc., broadcasts at 1410 kHz, with 5000 watts of power day and night. KQV's call letters reportedly stand for King of the Quaker Valley...
, with the Vogues' "You're the One" and KQV became the first radio station to play the record which entered the KQV "Finest Forty" chart in July 1965 and that August broke in Detroit and San Diego prior to breaking nationally that September.
The burgeoning success of the Vogues' "You're the One" had alerted Petula Clark's UK label: Pye Records
Pye Records
Pye Records was a British record label. In its first incarnation, perhaps Pye's best known artists were Lonnie Donegan , Petula Clark , The Searchers , The Kinks , Sandie Shaw and Brotherhood of Man...
, to the track's hit potential with Pye rush releasing Clark's own version as a single which entered the UK charts in November 1965 and peaked at #23. According to Chuck Blasco of the Vogues, Clark's US label: Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label. It was the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group, and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. It maintains a close relationship with its former parent, Warner Bros. Pictures, although the two companies...
, had also intended to issue Clark's version as a single to vie with the Vogues' version in the US but Clark had vetoed the idea saying: "Let the boys have the hit."
The Vogues' version did have a UK release on London Records
London Records
London Records, referred to as London Recordings in logo, is a record label headquartered in the United Kingdom, originally marketing records in the United States, Canada and Latin America from 1947 to 1979, then becoming a semi-independent label....
but did not garner enough interest to share the UK charts with Clark's version.
"You're the One" also charted for Clark in Australia at #4 and in the Netherlands at #30. The Vogues' version was a Top Ten hit in Canada (#4) and New Zealand.
Unique among Clark's hit singles as the only English language hit in which she had a hand in writing, "You're the One" was rendered by Clark in French, German and Italian; the French version was entitled "Un Mal Pour Un Bien" (French #6), the German "Deine Liebe ist wunderbar".
Clark performed the song live in the 1965 concert film The Big TNT Show.
Rocky Sharpe
Rocky Sharpe
Rocky Sharpe is the pseudonym of an English rock/pop singer who, with Rocky Sharpe and the Replays, first found fame in the late 1970s. The usual line-up of the group was Rocky , Helen Highwater , Johnny Stud and Eric Rondo...
and the Replays remade "You're the One" on their 1981 album release Come On Let's Go.
A Finnish rendering of "You're the One": "Sinä Vain", was a 1966 single release for Eero.
- 1"You're the One" was originally released on Cenci's Blue Star label; when a copyright dispute with another Blue Star label arose, the label name was changed to Co&Ce.