Every Time You Go Away

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Every Time You Go Away
Hall & Oates
publication 1980
Genre (s) pop
Author (s) Daryl Hall
album Voices
Cover version
1985 Paul Young

Everytime You Go Away is a pop song by the American singer Daryl Hall . The cover of the musician Paul Young was in 1985, a number-one hit in the US .

Original version (Hall & Oates)

The original version is from Hall & Oates and is included on their album Voices from 1980, although it was never released as a single . They recorded the song again in 1985 for their concert album Live at the Apollo .

Version by Paul Young

publication

Young's cover version was released on February 25, 1985 and reached number 4 in the United Kingdom in March 1985 and number 40 in the German charts in May. On July 27, 1985, the song reached the top ranking in the United States. It remained his only number one hit there. At the 1986 Brit Awards , the video for Everytime You Go Away won the Best British Video award .

Paul Young's recording was made with piano , bass and electric guitar . A 7 ″ single with the single version of the song and a 12 ″ maxi with an extended version were released . Both singles contain This Means Anything as the B-side .

Charts

Charts Top ranking Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK) Germany (GfK) 40 (7 weeks) 7th
United Kingdom (OCC) United Kingdom (OCC) 4th (11 weeks) 11
United States (Billboard) United States (Billboard) 1 (23 weeks) 23

Awards for music sales

Country / Region Award Sales
Awards for music sales
(country / region, Award, Sales)
United States (RIAA) United States (RIAA) Gold record icon.svg gold 500,000
United Kingdom (BPI) United Kingdom (BPI) Silver record icon.svg silver 250,000
All in all Silver record icon.svg1 × silver
Gold record icon.svg1 × gold
750,000

More cover versions

At the end of the 1987 film A Ticket for Two , the song is played by Blue Room. In 2006 Clay Aiken covered the song on his CD A Thousand Different Ways . In 2009, the original Hall & Oates song was played in the movie The Rebound .

Individual evidence

  1. Record details Everytime you go away on 45cat.com
  2. Every Time You Go Away in the German charts at OfficialCharts.de
  3. Every Time You Go Away in the Official UK Charts (English)
  4. Every Time You Go Away on the US Billboard Hot 100 charts
  5. ^ Paul Young - Every Time You Go Away AfM DE
  6. ^ Paul Young - Every Time You Go Away AfM UK