- Lucky Lips
Infobox Single
Name =Lucky Lips
Cover size =
Caption =
Artist =Cliff Richard andThe Shadows
from Album =
A-side =
B-side ="I Wonder "
Released =May 1963
Format =7" single
Recorded =March 8 1963, Abbey Road/London
Genre =Pop music
Length =2:41
Label =Columbia (EMI)
Writer =Jerry Leiber ,Mike Stoller
Producer =Norrie Paramor
Certification =
Last single = "Summer Holiday"
(1962)
This single = "Lucky Lips"
(1963)
Next single = "It's All in the Game "
(1963)
Misc =Lucky Lips is a song written by
Jerry Leiber andMike Stoller and originally recorded byRuth Brown in 1957, and in 1963 byCliff Richard , whose german version "Rote Lippen soll man küssen" (lyrics byHans Bradtke ) was a #1 hit in the formerWest Germany .In the UK it only went to #4, but in Belgium, West Germany, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Sweden and Switzerland it became a number one single. [http://www.sir-cliff.com/single.html Cliff Richard singles]
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With lyrics in Swedish by
Christer Jonasson as "Slit och släng",Siw Malmkvist scored a 9 week longSvensktoppen hit with the song fromNovember 5 1966 -January 14 1967 , peaking at #2. These lyrics reflects the society of Swedish in the 1950s and 1960s.References
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