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“The Minute You’re Gone”

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Cover of the single released in the Netherlands
Single by Cliff Richard
B-side“Just Another Guy”
Released5 March 1965
Recorded25 August 1964, Columbia Studios, Nashville, Tennessee
GenrePop
Length2:19
Songwriter(s)Jimmy Gateley
Producer(s)Billy Sherrill, Bob Morgan
Cliff Richard singles chronology
I Could Easily Fall (In Love with You)
(1964)”The Minute You’re Gone
(1965)”Angel
(1965)

The Minute You’re Gone” is a song written by Jimmy Gateley (often miscredited as “Gately” or “Gatelie”), a Nashville, Tennessee based fiddle player and singer, for Sonny James in 1963. This song originally made No. 95 in the US charts and No. 9 in the country charts for Sonny James in 1963.

Sonny James – The Minute You're Gone

Cliff Richard recorded it in 1965 and his single spent a week at number one in the UK Singles Chart in April 1965.

It was also recorded by Al Martino

Al Martino – The minute you're gone – (1966)

Faron Young

The Minute You're Gone

 Loretta Lynn

Early Loretta Lynn – The Minute You're Gone (1963).

Ronnie McDowell 

Ronnie McDowell "The Minute You're Gone"

Eddy Arnold

The Minute You're Gone

The Minute You’re gone – cover by Phil McGarrick

The Minute You're gone – Cliff Richard Guitar cover by Phil McGarrick. FREE TABS

Daniel O’Donnell

The Minute You're Gone

Cliff Richard version

Richard’s recording of the song had come about with the involvement of Richard’s American label Epic Records, which wanted to present Richard in the US with more American songs. Bob Morgan, executive A&R producer from Epic met with Richard’s A&R producer Norrie Paramor and Richard to map out recording plans and brought 50 songs of US origin for them to screen. About 15 songs were selected and plans were made to record in New York, Nashville and Chicago according to the different styles of the songs selected, which ranged from pop-country, pure country, ballad and medium tempo. In Nashville, Richard recorded the singles “The Minute You’re Gone”, “Wind Me Up (Let Me Go)”

Cliff Richard & The Shadows – Wind Me Up, Let Me Go (London Palladium, 13.06.1965)

and “On My Word” with Billy Sherrill producing with backing by Nashville session musicians together with the Anita Kerr Singers. Arrangement and conducting on “The Minute You’re Gone” was by Stan Applebaum.

Cliff Richard On My Word

“The Minute You’re Gone” provided Richard with his eighth UK number one single. It was also his first UK chart topper he had recorded without The Shadows backing. However, at the corresponding time in the US, Epic curiously chose to release the soft ballad “Again” (another of his Nashville recorded tracks) as a single with “The Minute You’re Gone” as the B-side. Although “Again” received a 4 star rating from Billboard, it had no chart success.

Olivia Newton-John – The Minute You're Gone (live with Cliff Richard)

Meanwhile, “The Minute You’re Gone” became another international hit for Richard outside the Americas.

Chart performance

Chart (1965-1966)Peak
position
UK Singles (OCC)1
Australia (Kent Music Report)6
Hong Kong2
Ireland (IRMA)2
Netherlands (Single Top 100)21
Malaysia1
Norway (VG-lista)6
Singapore1
South Africa8[A]
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)19

Cliff Richard and The Shadows

CLIFF RICHARD The minute you're gone (live)

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