Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)

Infobox Single
Name = "Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)


Artist = Erasure
from Album = Erasure
B-side = "Hi NRG"
Released = November 27, 1995
Format = 12", cassette, CD
Recorded = 1995
Genre = Synthpop
Length = 4:23
Label = Mute (UK)
Elektra (U.S.)
Writer = Vince Clarke, Andy Bell
Producer = Thomas Fehlmann, Gareth Jones
Chart position = * #20 (UK Singles Chart)
* #69 (Germany)
Last single = "Stay with Me"
(1995)
This single = "Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)"
(1995)
Next single = "Rock Me Gently"
(1996)

"Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)" is a song by British synth pop duo Erasure. The track originally appeared on the soundtrack to the documentary film "". Erasure re-recorded the track for their album "Erasure" with new lyrics. It was released as the second single from the album by Mute Records in the UK and Elektra Records in the United States. The album version is over six minutes long; the single edit removes an extended instrumental section between the second and third choruses.

The song was composed by Vince Clarke and Andy Bell and is an uptempo dance music track. The music video features Bell singing the song as he walks through an amusement park (the actual filming was done in the London Docklands [http://www.erasureinfo.com/features/privateear_14.html] ). Upon its release, the song became Erasure's twenty-second consecutive Top 20 hit in the UK singles chart. In Germany the song stopped at number sixty-nine. Although it did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, "Fingers & Thumbs" hit number ten on the U.S. Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.

The single's B-side is a cover version of "High Energy" (retitled "Hi NRG"), a 1984 number-one U.S. dance chart hit by Evelyn Thomas.

Track listings

Cassette single (CMUTE178)

# "Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)" (Single Mix)
# "Hi NRG"

12" single (12MUTE178)

# "Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)" (Tin Tin Out Remix)
# "Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)" (Tin Tin Out Instrumental)
# "Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)" (Dub on the Moon)
# "Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)" (Twilight Plus)

CD single #1 (CDMUTE178)

# "Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)" (Single Mix)
# "Hi NRG"
# "Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)" (Twilight 0.2)
# "Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)" (Fingers In Crumbs)

CD single #2 (LCDMUTE178)

# "Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)" (Tin Tin Out Remix)
# "Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)" (Dub on the Moon)
# "Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)" (Electrofinger)
# "Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)" (Twilight Plus)

References

* [http://www.erasureinfo.com/features/privateear_14.html "Being an extra for the Fingers and Thumbs video"] , "Erasure Information Service". Accessed June 202007.