| Uno tranquillo | |
| Cover: | File:Riccardo Del Turco Uno tranquillo.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Riccardo Del Turco |
| Album: | Riccardo Del Turco |
| B-Side: | Allora hai vinto tu |
| Genre: | Pop |
| Label: | CGD |
| Prev Title: | Figlio unico |
| Prev Year: | 1966 |
| Next Title: | L'importante è la rosa |
| Next Year: | 1967 |
"Uno tranquillo" ("Quiet One") is a song by Italian singer Riccardo Del Turco, released as a single in 1967. The song is notable for being covered in English as "Suddenly You Love Me" by the Tremeloes and in French as "Siffler sur la colline" by Joe Dassin.
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| Suddenly You Love Me | |
| Cover: | File:The Tremeloes Suddenly You Love Me.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | the Tremeloes |
| Album: | Suddenly You Love Me |
| A-Side: | "As You Are" (double A-side)[1] |
| Label: | |
| Producer: | Mike Smith |
| Prev Title: | Be Mine |
| Prev Year: | 1967 |
| Next Title: | Helule Helule |
| Next Year: | 1968 |
British band the Tremeloes released an English-language version of the song in January 1968. It became a top-ten hit in the UK and peaked at number 44 on the US Billboard Hot 100. It was an early example of British bubblegum pop.
"Suddenly You Love Me" was released as a double A-sided single with "As You Are" in most countries. In the Netherlands and Germany, "As You Are" was promoted as the sole A-side and peaked at number 35 on the German Singles Chart.[2] In the US and Canada, "Suddenly You Love Me" was released two weeks later than the UK, with the flip side "Suddenly Winter", which was the B-side to the band's previous single "Be Mine".[3] In New Zealand, "Suddenly You Love Me" was released with the B-side "Negotiations in Soho Square", taken from the album Alan, Dave, Rick and Chip.[4]
Reviewing for New Musical Express, Derek Johnson wrote that "Suddenly You Love Me" "exudes a wonderfully lighthearted atmosphere, with organ, rattling tambourine and handclaps providing a sizzling backcloth to the boys' spirited vocal". Whilst "As You Are" was described as being "much slower", "a rhythmic ballad with a descriptive lyric".[5]
Billboard described is as "one of [the Tremeloes] most powerful entries to date" and as an "infectious and rhythmic rocker that should quickly surpass their "Even the Bad Times Are Good" and bring them back to the "Silence Is Golden" selling class".[6] Cash Box wrote that "Happy bounce and a terrific up-tempo side done with mirthful group vocals and a soiid orchestral drive make it possibly the brightest side by the Tremeloes in a long while".[7]
In a retrospective article, Robin Carmody of Freaky Trigger praised the song's "grinning rush" and grouped it among other early British bubblegum songs, like the Love Affair's "Everlasting Love" (1967) and the Casuals' "Jesamine" (1968), for their emerging sense of optimism, "not in a cloying or false way, but appealingly (and unreachably) pre-ironic."[8]
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7": CBS / BA-461174 (New Zealand)
7": Epic / 5-10293 (US and Canada)
| Chart (1968) | Peak position | |
|---|---|---|
| Australia (Go-Set)[9] | 24 | |
| Australia (Kent Music Report)[10] | 20 | |
| Canada (CHUM)[11] | 7 | |
| Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[12] | 18 | |
| New Zealand (Listener)[13] | 6 | |
| Rhodesia (Lyons Maid)[14] | 7 | |
| Spain (Promusicae)[15] | 8 | |
| Sweden (Kvällstoppen)[16] | 7 | |
| Sweden (Tio i Topp)[17] | 1 | |
| UK Melody Maker Top 30[18] | 5 | |
| UK New Musical Express Top 30[19] | 6 | |
| UK Record Retailer Top 50[20] | 6 | |
| US Billboard Hot 100[21] | 44 | |
| US Cash Box Top 100[22] | 40 |
| Siffler sur la colline | |
| Cover: | File:Joe Dassin Siffler sur la colline.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Joe Dassin |
| Album: | Joe Dassin (Les Champs-Élysées) |
| B-Side: | Comment te dire |
| Genre: | |
| Label: | CBS |
| Producer: | Jacques Plait |
| Prev Title: | La Bande à Bonnot |
| Prev Year: | 1968 |
| Next Title: | Ma bonne étoile |
| Next Year: | 1968 |
French singer-songwriter Joe Dassin released a French-language version of the song as a single in March 1968 from his album Joe Dassin (Les Champs-Élysées). It was adapted into French by Jean-Michel Rivat and Frank Thomas and featured an orchestra conducted by Johnny Arthey.
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