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"Valerie"
Song

"Valerie" was the second single to be released from The Zutons' second album Tired of Hanging Around. It was released on June 19, 2006 in the UK and peaked at #9 on the UK Singles Chart.

Charts

Chart (2006) Peak
position
UK Singles Chart 9 [1]
Irish Singles Chart 32 [1]

Track listing

CD Version 1

  1. "Valerie"
  2. "April Foolzzz"

CD Version 2

  1. "Valerie"
  2. "I Will Be Your Pockets"
  3. "In the City"
  4. "Valerie" (Video)

7" Version

  1. "Valerie"
  2. "Get Up & Dance"

Mark Ronson featuring Amy Winehouse version

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"Valerie"
Song
B-side"California"

"Valerie" is the third single to be released from Mark Ronson's 2007 album Version. The track features vocals by critically-acclaimed English soul singer Amy Winehouse. This version of the track was originally done when Winehouse appeared on Jo Whiley's Live Lounge show on BBC Radio 1. The single was released on 22 October 2007, the video shows a group of jazz musicians inviting a woman from the audience onto their stage to "sing" the song, followed by (presumably) the woman's friends, in the style of group karaoke - although the women "sing" with Winehouse's voice. This single has become the highest charting single of Amy Winehouse's career so far (reaching No.2), with previous efforts "Rehab" and "Tears Dry on Their Own" peaking at 7 and 16 respectively. Another version of the song credited only to Amy Winehouse appeared in the UK Top 40 Singles Chart at the same time as the Mark Ronson collaboration, peaking at No.37 and spending, to date, 11 non-consecutive weeks on the UK singles chart.

The single peaked at UK No.2 and has spent 16 consecutive weeks on the UK Singles Chart to date. With sales of 329,490, it ended 2007 as the year's 9th biggest-selling single in the UK[2]

A third video of the song has been produced for the Baby J remix, which features samples from the Winehouse/Ronson edition with a rap overlay that makes frequent reference to Ronson and Winehouse (although no mention of the Zutons), as does the video itself. Wale, a rapper, can be seen in the beginning of the video.

Track listing

CD Version

  1. "Valerie"
  2. "Valerie" (Baby J remix)
  3. "Valerie" (Count of Monte Cristal & Sinden remix)
  4. "California" (Live)

Peaks and positions

Chart (2007) Peak
position
Dutch Singles Chart 3
European Singles Chart 15
Irish Singles Chart 3
New Zealand Singles Chart 39
Polish Singles Chart 50
Swiss Singles Chart 43
UK Singles Chart 2
UK R&B Chart 1

References

  1. ^ a b "Zutons - Valerie worldwide chart positions and trajectories". aCharts.us. Retrieved October 20 2007.
  2. ^ BBC Music. "Top 40 Singles of the Year 2007 ". Retrieved 2007-12-27


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