Lucky Lips

Infobox Single
Name =Lucky Lips


Cover size =
Caption =
Artist =Cliff Richard and The 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 and Mike Stoller and originally recorded by Ruth Brown in 1957, and in 1963 by Cliff Richard, whose german version "Rote Lippen soll man küssen" (lyrics by Hans Bradtke) was a #1 hit in the former West 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 long Svensktoppen hit with the song from November 5 1966-January 14 1967, peaking at #2. These lyrics reflects the society of Swedish in the 1950s and 1960s.

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