Beautiful Sunday (song)

"Beautiful Sunday"
Single by Daniel Boone
from the album Beautiful Sunday
B-side	"Truly Julie"
Released	March 1972
Genre	Pop rock
Length	3:08
Label	Mercury Records 73281
Writer(s)	Daniel Boone, Rod McQueen
Producer(s)	Larry Page
Daniel Boone singles chronology
"Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast" (1971) "Beautiful Sunday" (1972) "Annabelle" (1972)

"Beautiful Sunday" is a song written by Daniel Boone and Rod McQueen and performed by Daniel Boone. The song appeared on his 1972 album, Beautiful Sunday.^[1] The song was produced by Larry Page and arranged by Boone.^[2]

Chart performance

The song also made the charts in New Zealand (gold record), Argentina, France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, and Germany, where it held the #1 position from May 1972 to late June 1972.^[3]

Boone re-released the song in the UK in 1974 where it reached #53 on the UK singles chart.^[4]

Boon re-released the song in Japan in 1976, where it reached #1 on the Oricon Singles Chart from March 22 to June 28.^[5] The song is still the best selling single by a foreign artist in Japan.

Weekly charts Chart (1972) Peak position Australia (ARIA)[6] 8 Australia (Go-Set National Top 40)[7] 6 Belgium (Flanders)[8] 4 Canada (RPM 100)[9] 4 Germany[3] 1 Netherlands[10] 14 New Zealand[11] 1 Norway (VG-lista)[12] 1 Switzerland[13] 2 UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[14] 21 US Easy Listening[14] 6 US Billboard Hot 100[15] 15 US Cash Box Top 100[16] 16

Year-end charts Chart (1972) Rank Australia [6] 50 Canada 30 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [17] 42 U.S. Cash Box [18] 77

In media

The song was used as the theme song for the 1975 - 1976 Japan's TBS morning show, Ohayo 720.^[19]

The song was featured in the Scottish sitcom Still Game on the Series 2 third episode entitled "Doactors".

The song was featured in the 2010 musical, I Dreamed a Dream, which is based on the life of Susan Boyle.

Other versions

• Jack Reno released the song as a single in 1973. The song went to #67 on the U.S. country chart.^[20]
• Kikki Danielsson and Roosarna released a version of the song on the 1996 album, Hem till Norden.^[21]
• The Ventures released an instrumental version of the song.^[22]
• Seiji Tanaka released a Japanese version of the song as a single in 1976. The song went to #4 on the Japan single chart and has sold 0.5 million copies.^[23]
• "Poyushchiye Gitary" ("The Singing guitars") - Soviet group, released a version of the song on the 1975 (Russian tex by M.Belyakov).

References

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3. "Riding high with Penny Farthing around the globe". Billboard. 1972-11-11. p. 61. Retrieved January 22, 2014.
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15. "Daniel Boone – Chart history" Billboard Hot 100 for Daniel Boone. Retrieved March 28, 2016.
16. "Cash Box Top 100 9/30/72". Tropicalglen.com. 1972-09-30. Retrieved 2016-10-06.
17. "Top 100 Hits of 1972/Top 100 Songs of 1972". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016-10-06.
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19. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-01-21. Retrieved 2014-07-23.
20. "Beautiful Sunday (song by Jack Reno) ••• Music VF, US & UK hits charts". Musicvf.com. Retrieved 2016-10-06.
21. "Hem till Norden". Svensk mediedatabas. 1996. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
22. "The Last Album on Liberty - The Ventures | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-10-06.
23. "ベストテン・クラシックス〜１９７６年６月 - Lonesome-happy-days". D.hatena.ne.jp. 2013-06-21. Retrieved 2016-10-06.