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==Andy Williams Recording== ==Andy Williams Recording==

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"Can't Get Used to Losing You"
Song

"Can't Get Used to Losing You" is a song written by Jerome "Doc" Pomus and Mort Shuman, first made popular by Andy Williams in a 1963 record release, which was a #2 hit in both the US and the UK. Twenty years later, British band The Beat took a ska re-arrangement of the song to #3 in the UK.

Andy Williams Recording

"Can't Get Used to Losing You" was the title of both a hit album and a single from the album, recorded by Andy Williams and released in 1963. It peaked at number 2 in both the US and the UK. In the US, the single spent four weeks at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and topped the Easy Listening chart for four weeks, peaking on both in April 1963. Williams' recording peaked at #1 on the Cashbox charts.

The Beat recording

The Beat (known as The English Beat in the USA) originally recorded their cover of "Can't Get Used to Losing You" as a track on their 1980 album I Just Can't Stop It. It was not released as a single until three years later, just as The Beat announced that they were breaking up. The single was remixed slightly from the album track, and became the band's fifth and final top ten UK hit, and their highest charting single release ever.

Other Recordings

This song has been covered by Madeline Bell, Julie London, Skeeter Davis, Bobby Darin, Chad & Jeremy, Bobby Rydell The English Beat and Renegade Soundwave.

In one of Kermit Schafer's blooper books, it says that an announcer introduced the song as "Can't Get Used to Using You".

See also

References

  1. "1963, "Can't Get Used to Losing You"".
  2. Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)
  3. "PopularSong.org, "Meet the Boxes, Juke and Cash"".
  4. Whitburn, Joel (2002). Album Cuts 1955-2001, (Billboard Publications)
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