Are You Sure? (The Allisons song)
"Are You Sure?" is a song by British pop duo The Allisons, that represented the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 1961, performed in English.
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| Single by The Allisons | ||||
| B-side | "There's One Thing More" | |||
| Released | February 1961 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 2:05 | |||
| Label | London Records 1977 | |||
| Songwriter(s) | John Allison, Bob Allison | |||
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| Eurovision Song Contest 1961 entry | |
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| Composer(s) | John Allison, Bob Allison |
| Lyricist(s) | John Allison, Bob Allison |
| Conductor | Harry Robinson |
| Finals performance | |
| Final result | 2nd |
| Final points | 24 |
| Appearance chronology | |
| ◄ "Looking High, High, High" (1960) | |
| "Ring-A-Ding Girl" (1962) ► | |
The song was performed 15th on the night of the contest, held on 18 March 1961, following Luxembourg's Jean-Claude Pascal with "Nous les amoureux", and preceding Italy's Betty Curtis with "Al di là". The song received 24 points, placing 2nd in a field of 16, the third consecutive second place Eurovision finish for the UK for whom two subsequent Eurovision entrants would also be second-place finishers before "Puppet on a String" by Sandie Shaw would give the UK its first Eurovision victory at Eurovision 1967. "Are You Sure?" was also the first UK Eurovision entrant to become a Top Ten hit reaching #2 UK, the best chart showing for a UK Eurovision entrant until "Puppet on a String" by Sandie Shaw reached No. 1 in 1967.
The song was succeeded as the UK representative at the 1962 Contest by Ronnie Carroll with "Ring-A-Ding Girl".
The lyrics are memorable for a possibly unique example of the bizarre grammatical error "Comes tomorrow, you won't want me".
Chart performance
| Chart (1961) | Peak position |
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| United Kingdom (Record Retailer)[1] | 2 |
| United Kingdom (NME)[2] | 1 |
| United Kingdom (Record Mirror)[3] | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard [4] | 102 |
References
- "Artist Chart History Details: Allisons". The Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 August 2010.
- Rees, Dafydd; Lazell, Barry; Osborne, Roger (1995). Forty Years of "NME" Charts (2nd ed.). Pan Macmillan. p. 99. ISBN 0-7522-0829-2.
- Smith, Alan. "Every No.1 in the 1960s is listed from all the nine different magazine charts!". Dave McAleer's website. Archived from the original on 12 October 2010. Retrieved 4 November 2010.
- Joel Whitburn's Bubbling Under the Billboard Hot 100 1959-2004