The Next Time Explained

The Next Time
Cover:	File:Cliff Richard The Next Time.jpg
Type:	single
Artist:	Cliff Richard, The Shadows and the Norrie Paramor Strings
Album:	Summer Holiday
B-Side:	"Bachelor Boy"^[1]
Released:	30 November 1962
Recorded:	10 May and 19 November 1962
Studio:	EMI Studios, London
Genre:	Pop
Length:	2:59
Label:	Columbia
Producer:	Norrie Paramor
Prev Title:	Wonderful to Be Young
Prev Year:	1962
Next Title:	Summer Holiday
Next Year:	1963

"The Next Time" backed with "Bachelor Boy" was the first of three number one hit singles from the Cliff Richard musical, Summer Holiday.^[1] Both sides were marketed as songs with chart potential, and the release is viewed retroactively as a double A-side single. However, technically double A-sides were not regarded as such until 1965, so "The Next Time" was pressed as the A-side,^[2] with "Bachelor Boy" the B-side (written by Bruce Welch and Cliff Richard). The song was succeeded at number one by The Shadows' "Dance On!".^[1]

The recording of the song took place at Abbey Road Studios in London on 10 May 1962. It was produced by Norrie Paramor and engineered by Malcolm Addey.^[3] The single spent three weeks at No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart in January 1963.^[4]

The song was included on the January 1963 album Summer Holiday. The film was the most successful box-office attraction of the year.

Chart performance

The single is retroactively referred to as a double A-side because both sides of the single were promoted. In many countries, "Bachelor Boy" became the bigger hit and the charts listed it first or on its own. In some countries both songs were listed separately on the charts despite them being the same record.

The Next Time

Chart (1962/63)	Peak position
Hong Kong ^[5]	4
India ^[6]	1
Ireland (IRMA)^[7]	1
Israel ^[8]	1
New Zealand	2
UK (NME)^[9]	1

Bachelor Boy

Chart (1963)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report)^[10]	9
Canada (CHUM)^[11]	^[12]	2
Denmark (Tracklisten)^[13]	1
Hong Kong ^[14]	3
South Africa (SARMD)^[15]	1
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)^[16]	2
UK (NME)^[17]	3
US Billboard Hot 100^[18]	99

Notes:

• Not all New Zealand chart weeks were published in Billboard. The record may have charted higher.
• In Canada, the week "Bachelor Boy" peaked at number 2, Richard's "Summer Holiday" was at number 1.^[12]
• In the UK, although the single peaked at number 1 in the Record Retailer singles chart that was later accepted as the retrospective official chart for the period, the competing NME singles chart listed the two tracks separately with "The Next Time" peaking at number 1 and "Bachelor Boy" peaking at number 3.

Other versions

The singer Richard Anthony made a French version entitled "Après toi".

Hank Marvin did an instrumental version on Hank Plays Cliff (1995).

External links

• Cliff Richard singles

Notes and References

1. Book: Rice , Jo . 1982. The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits. 1st. Guinness Superlatives Ltd . Enfield, Middlesex. 68. 0-85112-250-7.
2. Web site: Porter. Robert. Bachelor Boy: An in‐depth anaysis. Cliff Richard Song Database. 17 November 2011.
3. Web site: Porter. Robert. The Next Time. Cliff Richard Song Database. 17 November 2011.
4. Book: Roberts , David . 2006. British Hit Singles & Albums. 19th. Guinness World Records Limited . London. 1-904994-10-5. 145. British Hit Singles & Albums.
5. Book: Billboard. 23 February 1963. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.. 22–. 0006-2510.
6. Book: Billboard. 6 April 1963. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.. 66–. 0006-2510.
7. The Official Charts in Ireland began on October 4, 1962. Chart positions before that are taken from the Evening Herald Chart which was a Top Ten single chart published by the Irish daily newspaper Evening Herald between February 1959 and December 1962. Web site: Ireland singles charts. Irishcharts.ie. 2014-04-26.
8. Book: Billboard. 2 March 1963. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.. 20–. 0006-2510.
9. Book: Read . Mike . Mike Read . Lewry . Peter . Goodall . Nigel . Cliff Richard - The Complete Chronicle . 1 July 2013 . 1993 . . London . 0600578976 . 303.
10. Book: Kent, David. Australian Chart Book 1940–1969. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book Pty Ltd, Turramurra, N.S.W. . 2005. 0-646-44439-5. Kent Music Report.
11. Web site: CHUM Chart. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20170202000803/http://home.cogeco.ca/~my_music/cliff_richard/cliff_chum_stats.htm. 2017-02-02.
12. Web site: CHUM Hit Parade 13 May 1963 . chumtribute.com . 10 June 2018.
13. Web site: Denmark singles chart - Bachelor Boy. danskehitlister.dk. 2014-04-25.
14. Book: Billboard. 4 May 1963. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.. 28. 0006-2510.
15. Book: Billboard. 30 March 1963. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.. 28. 0006-2510.
16. Book: Johansson, Carl-Owe. Rock Around the Clock - Saturday Night Fever 1955-1978. Vara, Sweden. Dominique muzic-club. 1980.
17. Book: Read . Mike . Mike Read . Lewry . Peter . Goodall . Nigel . Cliff Richard - The Complete Chronicle . 1 July 2013 . 1993 . . London . 0600578976 . 303.
18. Web site: Stephen Thomas Erlewine . Cliff Richard | Awards . AllMusic . 2014-04-26. Stephen Thomas Erlewine .