Are You Sure? (The Allisons song)

"Are You Sure?" is a song by British pop duo The Allisons, that represented the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 1961, performed in English.

"Are You Sure?"
Single by The Allisons
B-side"There's One Thing More"
ReleasedFebruary 1961
GenrePop
Length2:05
LabelFontana Records
Songwriter(s)
  • John Allison
  • Bob Day
The Allisons singles chronology
"Are You Sure?"
(1961)		 "Words"
(1961)
Eurovision Song Contest 1961 entry
Country
Artist(s)
As
Language
English
Composer(s)
  • John Allison
  • Bob Day
Lyricist(s)
  • John Allison
  • Bob Day
Conductor
Finals performance
Final result
2nd
Final points
24
Entry chronology
◄ "Looking High, High, High" (1960)
"Ring-A-Ding Girl" (1962) ►

The song was performed 15th on the night of the contest, held on 18 March 1961, following Luxembourg's Jean-Claude Pascal with "Nous les amoureux", and preceding Italy's Betty Curtis with "Al di là". The song received 24 points, placing 2nd in a field of 16, the third consecutive second place Eurovision finish for the UK for whom two subsequent Eurovision entrants would also be second-place finishers before "Puppet on a String" by Sandie Shaw would give the UK its first Eurovision victory in 1967. "Are You Sure?" was also the first UK Eurovision entrant to become a Top Ten hit reaching #2 UK, the best chart showing for a UK Eurovision entrant until "Puppet on a String" by Sandie Shaw reached No. 1 in 1967.

The song was succeeded as the UK representative at the 1962 contest by Ronnie Carroll with "Ring-A-Ding Girl".

Chart performance
Chart (1961) Peak
position
United Kingdom (Record Retailer)[1] 2
United Kingdom (NME)[2] 1
United Kingdom (Record Mirror)[3] 1
U.S. Billboard [4] 102

References
  1. "Artist Chart History Details: Allisons". The Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 August 2010.
  2. Rees, Dafydd; Lazell, Barry; Osborne, Roger (1995). Forty Years of "NME" Charts (2nd ed.). Pan Macmillan. p. 99. ISBN 0-7522-0829-2.
  3. Smith, Alan. "Every No.1 in the 1960s is listed from all the nine different magazine charts!". Dave McAleer's website. Archived from the original on 12 October 2010. Retrieved 4 November 2010.
  4. Joel Whitburn's Bubbling Under the Billboard Hot 100 1959-2004
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