Single:
Summer Holiday entered the Australian singles chart* on 6 April 1963 and peaked at #3. The song was #25 on the Top 100 of 1963.
Album:
The song is on the Summer Holiday soundtrack that charted in Australia in 1963.
Songwriters:
Bruce Welch, Brian Bennett
Producer:
Norrie Paramor
Record label of Australian release:
Columbia
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
With scenes from the Summer Holiday film (1963) starring Cliff Richard:
Songfacts:
The Shadows rhythm guitarist Bruce Welch and drummer Brian Bennett wrote this sing-along song for Cliff Richard’s 1963 movie, Summer Holiday. Welch recalled to The Daily Mail’s Weekend magazine:
“We were in pantomime in Stockton-on-Tees when we got a synopsis of the next movie that we had to try and write some songs for. It said, ‘Four or five guys hire a London bus and drive through Europe meeting girls on a summer holiday.’ That was it.
‘Our drummer Brian Bennett was in the orchestra pit. I sang, ‘We’re all going on a summer holiday, no more working for a week or two.'” Brian wrote, ‘We’re going where the sun shines brightly. We’re going where the sea is blue.’ It took us about half an hour. We wrote songs that changed society. It was amazing.”
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/cliff-richard/summer-holiday
Lyrics:
We’re all going on a summer holiday
No more working for a week or two.
Fun and laughter on our summer holiday,
No more worries for me or you,
For a week or two.
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