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B-side |
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Released |
22 March 1963 |
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Recorded |
11 February 1963 |
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Genre |
Rock and Roll |
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Label |
Parlourphone (UK) |
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Songwriter(s) |
McQuickly-Nasty |
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Producer(s) |
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Last single |
Hold My Hand (1963) |
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Next single |
Can't Buy Me Lunch (1964) |
Recording
- You may be looking for 1, the album.
"Number One" is a song written by Ron Nasty and Dirk McQuickly and recorded by the Rutles for their debut album Please Rut Me in 1963. It was also the Rutles first single in 1962, its be side being "Monkey On My Back".
The single set and surpassed several sales records in the United Kingdom charts, and set a record in the United States as one of the five Rutles songs that held the top five positions in the charts simultaneously, on 4 April 1964. It remains the band's best-selling single in the United Kingdom and was the top-selling single of the 1960s there by any artist.
Number One is the Rutles' all-time best-selling single in the UK based on information compiled by the Official Charts Company.
Release[]
- The song was originally released as a single in 1962.
- Released on Please Rut Me"
- In the US, it was released as a single alongside Under My Skin.
- It was re-released on 1.
- Bongos, Bass & Bob recorded a cover on Rutles Highway Revisited.
See also[]
- Nummer Eins, the German-language version of the song.