Everyone's Gone to the Moon

"Everyone's Gone to the Moon"
Single by Jonathan King
from the album Or Then Again...
B-side"Summer's Coming"
Released1965
Recorded1965
GenrePsychedelic pop[1]
Length2:23
LabelDecca Records (UK)
Parrot Records (US and Canada)
Songwriter(s)Jonathan King
Producer(s)Jonathan King
Jonathan King singles chronology
"Everyone's Gone to the Moon"
(1965) 		"Green Is the Grass"
(1965)

"Everyone's Gone to the Moon" is the debut single by the English singer-songwriter and record producer Jonathan King. It was released in 1965 while King was still an undergraduate at Cambridge University.[2] Early copies of this single, in all territories and on all labels, spell the artist's first name (a stage name) as Johnathan. For all later singles, the spelling was rendered as Jonathan, and most compilation appearances of this track use the more conventional Jonathan spelling as well.

Chart performance

Released by Decca Records, it reached No. 4 in the UK,[3] and No. 17 in the US Billboard Hot 100.[4][5]

See also

References

  1. ^ Lanza, Joesph (10 November 2020). "Shadows Over Sgt. Pepper". Easy-Listening Acid Trip - An Elevator Ride Through '60s Psychedelic Pop. Port Townsend: Feral House. p. 85.
  2. ^ William L. Roth (2001), "At the Water's Edge – Essays in Faith and Morals", Books.google.co.uk, ISBN 9780967158716, retrieved 28 November 2015
  3. ^ Betts, Graham (2004). Complete UK Hit Singles 1952-2004 (1st ed.). London: Collins. p. 425. ISBN 0-00-717931-6.
  4. ^ Brent Mann (2003), "99 Red Balloons...and 100 Other All-Time Great One-Hit Wonders", Books.google.co.uk, p. 43, ISBN 9780806525167, retrieved 28 November 2015
  5. ^ "The rise and fall of a pop tsar". The Guardian. London. Press Association. 29 March 2005.