If This Is It (Huey Lewis and the News song)

"If This Is It"
Single by Huey Lewis and the News
from the album Sports
B-side "Change of Heart"
Released July 10, 1984
Format 7" 45 RPM
Genre Rock
Length 3:46
Label Chrysalis
Writer(s) Johnny Colla, Huey Lewis
Producer(s) Huey Lewis and the News
Huey Lewis and the News singles chronology
"The Heart of Rock & Roll"
(1984)		 "If This Is It"
(1984)		 "Walking on a Thin Line"
(1984)

"If This Is It" is a song by American rock band Huey Lewis and the News. It was released as the fourth single from their number-one album Sports in 1984, and became their fifth top-ten and third consecutive number-six hit on the Billboard Hot 100. It also reached number five on the Adult Contemporary chart,[1] and then became their first UK hit single, reaching number 39 on the UK Singles Chart.[2]

The music video for the song was shot on the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. For the scene where most of the band appear to be buried up to their heads in sand, they claim to have genuinely been buried.[3] The band made a cameo appearance in the film, Amazon Women on the Moon, in which they spoofed the video.

The popular Canadian teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation, which is known for naming each episode after a 1980s hit song, named an episode after this song.[4]

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (1984) Peak
position
Australia 20
Canadian RPM Top Singles[5] 6
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary[6] 4
New Zealand 37
Norway 8
Sweden 10
UK[7] 39
US Billboard Hot 100[1] 6
US Billboard Adult Contemporary[1] 5
US Billboard Top Rock Tracks 19

Year-end charts

Chart (1984) Rank
Canada 54
Norwegian Julen Period[8] 14
US Billboard Hot 100[9] 64

Cover versions

Kikki Danielsson covered the song for her 1985 album Bra vibrationer as "Om det är så", with lyrics in Swedish by Monica Forsberg.[10]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Archived 18 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 319. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  3. ↑ Archived 21 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ "Degrassi: The Next Generation - Season 7, Episode 23: If This Is It". TV.com. Retrieved 2015-04-03.
  5. ↑ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2015-04-03.
  6. ↑ http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.8938&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.8938.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.8938
  7. ↑ "UK Top 40 Chart Archive, British Singles & Album Charts". Everyhit.com. 2000-03-16. Retrieved 2015-04-03.
  8. ↑ VG-lista. "Norwegian Charts". VG-lista. Retrieved 2014-03-31.
  9. ↑ "Top 100 Hits of 1984/Top 100 Songs of 1984". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2015-04-03.
  10. ↑ Information at Svensk mediedatabas
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