Charly (song)
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| Single by The Prodigy | ||||||||||||||
| from the album Experience | ||||||||||||||
| B-side | "Pandemonium" "Your Love" "Energy Flow (G-Force Part 1)" |
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| Released | 12 August 1991 | |||||||||||||
| Format | Vinyl (7 inch), vinyl (12 inch), cassette tape, CD single, digipak, digital download, maxi-single | |||||||||||||
| Recorded | 1991; C.W.S. Studios (Essex, England) | |||||||||||||
| Genre | Rave, Oldschool jungle | |||||||||||||
| Length | 3:56 (Original Version) 5:27 (Alley Cat Mix) 3:38 (Alley Cat 7" Edit / video version) 5:13 (Trip Into Drum & Bass Version / album version) |
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| Label | XL Recordings, Elektra | |||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Liam Howlett | |||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Liam Howlett, Chaz Stevens | |||||||||||||
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"Charly" is the debut single released by the British electronic act the Prodigy, taken from their debut album Experience. The version featured on the album is the significantly longer "Trip Into Drum & Bass" remix.
It was released in the UK on 12 August 1991 through XL Recordings on vinyl, CD and cassette tape format . Almost a year later, it was released as a double A-side single with "Everybody in the Place" in the United States on 18 June 1992 through Elektra Records on CD, digipak and maxi-single format.
On 22 November 2004 the single was released on digital download format. On 1 October 1992, "Charly" had sold over 200,000 copies in the UK which in turn enabled it a Silver BPI certification. The Alley Cat Mix of "Charly" features as track number three on the expanded disc two of the band's debut album Experience. "Charly" appears on the band's compilation album Their Law: The Singles 1990–2005 as track number nine.
"Charly" was written and produced by band frontman Liam Howlett, together with Chaz Stevens as an additional producer. The single's cover art was designed by Jay McKendry Jenkins. The song samples a 1970s BBC Public Information Film, Charley Says, (from "Double Deckers" of ITV's "Say No To Strangers" campaign), in which a small child is shown with his cat. This sample later resulted in the band being unsuccessfully sued for plagiarism. The beat of the track is sampled from "Radio Babylon" by electronic music act Meat Beat Manifesto.
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