To Sir With Love – Lulu

Chart Position: 1

• From the film To Sir With Love, which co-stars Lulu
• #1 bestseller for 1967
• Billboard’s #1 song of 1967
• Written by Don Black and Mark London
• Produced by Mickie Most
• Recorded in London U.K.
• Lulu’s real name is Marie McDonald McLaughlin; her manager wisely suggested the stage name
• Although Lulu is from the U.K., this song was not a hit there
• In the U.K. this song was the ‘b’ side of ‘The Boat That I Row’ (1967)
• This is Lulu’s only #1 U.S. single
• Lulu was once married to the late Maurice Gibb, a member of The Bee Gees
• Later recorded by King Curtis & Kingpins (1967), Jerome Richardson (1967), Madeline Bell (1968), Ventures (1968), Barbara Acklin (1968), Martha Reeves & Vandellas (1968),  Al Green (1978), Eugene Chadbourne (1985), Susanna Hoffs (1996), White Hassle (1997), Vonda Shepard w/Al Green (1999), Tina Arena (2007)  and Chaka Khan (2004)

 

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