Let's Get Married (The Proclaimers song)

"Let's Get Married"
Single by the Proclaimers
from the album Hit the Highway
Released7 February 1994 (1994-02-07)[1]
Length4:10
LabelChrysalis
Songwriter(s)
  • Craig Reid
  • Charles Reid
Producer(s)Pete Wingfield
The Proclaimers singles chronology
"King of the Road"
(1990) 		"Let's Get Married"
(1994) 		"What Makes You Cry"
(1994)

"Let's Get Married" is a song by Scottish rock duo the Proclaimers. Released in February 1994, it was the lead single from their third studio album, Hit the Highway. As the title strongly suggests, this is a marriage-themed song. The single charted in the United Kingdom, Austria and Canada.

Music video

Released in the United Kingdom in February 1994, the music video for "Let's Get Married", directed by Lindy Heymann,[2] was filmed in the Mojave Desert and in Las Vegas.[2]

Reception

Peter Galvin of Rolling Stone characterized "Let's Get Married" as "an anything-but-smarmy love song about the joys of matrimony".[3]

Charts

Chart (1994) Peak
position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[4] 21
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[5] 60
UK Singles (OCC)[6] 21

"Let's Get Married" was featured in Season 4 Episode 1 of the BBC Scotland sitcom Two Doors Down in January 2019.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Single Releases". Music Week. 5 February 1994. p. 29.
  2. ^ a b "Today is 25 years since the UK release of The Proclaimers third album 'Hit The Highway'". The Proclaimers. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  3. ^ Galvin, Peter. "Album Reviews - The Proclaimers: Hit the Highway". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 2 October 2007. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  4. ^ "austriancharts.at > The Proclaimers in der österreichischen Hitparade" (in German). Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  5. ^ "Image: RPM Weekly". Government of Canada - Library and Archives. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  6. ^ "Proclaimers - Full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  7. ^ "Two Doors Down (2016) s04e01 Episode Script". Springfield! Springfield!. Retrieved 28 December 2019.