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"Stay Another Day" is a song by East 17
East 17

For the postcode, see E postal area.East 17 are an England pop music boy band founded in 1992.The group name came from the UK postcodes for Walthamstow, an area of London between the old East End and the Essex commuter belt....
, which became their first and only number-one single, released in 1994.

y Another Day" was the second single from East 17's second album Steam. It was their first ballad
Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative story and set to music. Ballads were characteristic of particularly British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the nineteenth century and used extensively across Europe and later north America, Australia and north Africa....
, written by the band's lead singer Tony Mortimer
Tony Mortimer

Anthony Michael "Tony" Mortimer is a United Kingdom songwriter, composer, singer and rapper. He was a member of the 1990s, United Kingdom chart-topper boy band, East 17, with whom he enjoyed seven Top 40 single and four chart-topper albums between 1992 and 1997....
 about his brother Ollie, who committed suicide. Mortimer was aided in the composition by his co-manager Rob Kean and songwriter Dominic Hawken
Dominic Hawken

Dominic Hawken was a keyboard player and session musician in the 1990s, originally playing with Boy George and Marilyn .In 1994, he co-wrote 'Stay Another Day', the UK number one selling single performed by East 17....
, who had once been Boy George
Boy George

Boy George is an England singer-songwriter who was part of the English New Romantic movement which emerged in the early 1980s. He helped give androgyny an international stage with the success of Culture Club during the 1980s....
's keyboard player.






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"Stay Another Day" is a song by East 17
East 17

For the postcode, see E postal area.East 17 are an England pop music boy band founded in 1992.The group name came from the UK postcodes for Walthamstow, an area of London between the old East End and the Essex commuter belt....
, which became their first and only number-one single, released in 1994.

Song information

"Stay Another Day" was the second single from East 17's second album Steam. It was their first ballad
Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative story and set to music. Ballads were characteristic of particularly British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the nineteenth century and used extensively across Europe and later north America, Australia and north Africa....
, written by the band's lead singer Tony Mortimer
Tony Mortimer

Anthony Michael "Tony" Mortimer is a United Kingdom songwriter, composer, singer and rapper. He was a member of the 1990s, United Kingdom chart-topper boy band, East 17, with whom he enjoyed seven Top 40 single and four chart-topper albums between 1992 and 1997....
 about his brother Ollie, who committed suicide. Mortimer was aided in the composition by his co-manager Rob Kean and songwriter Dominic Hawken
Dominic Hawken

Dominic Hawken was a keyboard player and session musician in the 1990s, originally playing with Boy George and Marilyn .In 1994, he co-wrote 'Stay Another Day', the UK number one selling single performed by East 17....
, who had once been Boy George
Boy George

Boy George is an England singer-songwriter who was part of the English New Romantic movement which emerged in the early 1980s. He helped give androgyny an international stage with the success of Culture Club during the 1980s....
's keyboard player. "Stay Another Day" included Christmas
Christmas

Christmas , also referred to as Christmas Day, is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 that commemorates the birth of Jesus. The day marks the beginning of the larger season of Christmastide, which lasts Twelve Days of Christmas....
 bells towards the end of the song to give it a Christmassy feel and appeal to the lucrative Christmas singles market. The most familiar arrangement is unusual among pop records in that it features almost no drum
Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion instrument group, technically classified as a membranophone.. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with parts of a player's body, or with some sort of implement such as a drumstick, to produce sound....
s, apart from some timpani
Timpani

Timpani are musical instruments in the percussion instrument family. A type of drum, they consist of a skin called a drumhead stretched over a large bowl traditionally made of copper, and more recently, constructed of more lightweight fiberglass....
 toward the end of the track. In 2002, the song was covered by Girls Aloud
Girls Aloud

Girls Aloud are a British girl group that were created on the ITV1 talent show Popstars in 2002. The group, consisting of Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts, and Kimberley Walsh, have been successful in achieving a string of 20 consecutive UK Top 10 singles , two UK number one albums, and having been nominated for fo...
 as the B-side to their debut single "Sound of the Underground"
Sound of the Underground (song)

"Sound of the Underground" is a song by British all-female pop music group Girls Aloud, written and produced by Brian Higgins and his production team Xenomania....
. Also the song that was played when Wellard
Wellard

Wellard was a fictional character dog in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. He is a Belgian Tervuren, though all the dogs that have played him have all been female....
 the dog was put down on the BBC soap opera
Soap opera

A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in Serial format on television or radio. Programs described as soap operas have existed as an entertainment long enough for audiences to recognize them simply by the term soap....
 Eastenders
EastEnders

EastEnders is a popular and award-winning television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985. It currently ranks within the top of the most watched shows in the United Kingdom....
 and it was referenced during the episode. The most recent cover was a haunting semi-acoustic version by Glasvegas
Glasvegas

Glasvegas are a Scottish alternative rock band that formed in Glasgow in 2003. The band consists of James Allan , Rab Allan , Paul Donoghue and Caroline McKay ....
 in a session for BBC in 2008.

Chart Information

"Stay Another Day" was released on Monday 21st November 1994, and entered the chart at #7. The following week it climbed to #1 where it remained for 5 weeks, thus becoming the 1994 Christmas number-one and the third best selling single of that year.

It was also the 4th biggest selling boyband single of the 90's in the UK selling 778,000 copies.

Charts

Chart (1994)Peak
Position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart3
Dutch Singles Chart5
Irish Singles Chart1
Norwegian Singles Chart2
Swedish Singles Chart1
Swiss Singles Chart2
UK Singles Chart1


Chart (1995)Peak
Position
Austrian Singles Chart2
Belgian (Flanders) Singles Chart27
Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart10
French SNEP Singles Chart7


Track listing

  • UK CD Single [LONCD354]
  1. S.A.D. Mix
  2. Less Sad Mix
  3. More Sad Mix
  4. Not So Sad Mix