"The Minute You're Gone" is a song written by Jimmy Gateley (often miscredited as "Gately" or "Gatelie"), a

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based fiddle player and singer, for

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in 1963. This song originally made No. 95 in the US charts and No. 9 in the country charts for

in 1963.

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recorded it in 1964 and his single spent a week at number one in the

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in April 1965. It was also recorded by

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and

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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

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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)" and " On My Word" with

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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. "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

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backing. However, at the corresponding time in the US, Epic curiously chose to release the soft ballad "

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" (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. Meanwhile, "The Minute You're Gone" became another international hit for Richard outside the Americas.

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