A Picture of You (Joe Brown song)


"A Picture of You" is a song by English entertainer Joe Brown. Written by John Beveridge and Peter Oakman, it was a number 2 UK hit single for Brown in the summer of 1962. Brown recorded his version at Pye Records, and the single was released as Piccadilly 7N 35047.
Although "A Picture of You" is designated as the B-side of "A Lay-About's Lament", it was this song which became the chart hit. The song spent nine weeks in the UK Singles Chart Top 5 during a nineteen-week chart run. It was kept from the top spot by Mike Sarne's "Come Outside" during the weeks of 28 June and 5 July 1962. The song was placed thirteenth on the chart of overall single sales for the calendar year 1962 in the UK.
The album A Picture of You, Joe Brown's first, was issued on Pye's budget Golden Guinea label in 1962, and entered the NME album chart at number 10 on 25 August 1962. It stayed in the top ten for the next 15 weeks. The album also included the smaller hits Shine and What A Crazy World We're Livin' In.

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