Come On Eileen

"Come On Eileen"
"Come On Eileen"
Single by Dexys Midnight Runners and the Emerald Express
from the album Too-Rye-Ay
B-side	"Dubious" (7-inch in most countries & 12-inch); "Let's Make This Precious" (US 7-inch); "Liars A to E (New Version)" (12-inch);
Released	June 25, 1982 (UK); January 1983 (US)
Genre	New wave; Celtic folk; blue-eyed soul; pop; pop rock;
Length	4:12 (single version); 4:07 (without fiddle intro); 4:47 (with a cappella coda); 3:48 (video version); 3:28 (special DJ edit)
Label	Mercury
Songwriter(s)	Kevin Rowland; Jim Paterson; Billy Adams;
Producer(s)	Clive Langer; Alan Winstanley;
Dexys Midnight Runners singles chronology

"Come On Eileen" is a song by the English group Dexys Midnight Runners (credited to Dexys Midnight Runners and the Emerald Express), released in the United Kingdom in June 1982 as a single from their second studio album Too-Rye-Ay. It reached number one in the United States and was their second number one hit in the UK, following 1980's "Geno". The song was produced by Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley and was initially claimed to be written by Kevin Rowland, Jim Paterson and Billy Adams, although Rowland later stated that the essence of the tune should be attributed to Kevin Archer.

"Come On Eileen" won Best British Single at the 1983 Brit Awards, and in 2015 the song was voted by the British public as the nation's sixth favourite 1980s number one single in a poll for ITV. It was ranked number eighteen on VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of the '80s" and was Britain's best-selling single of 1982.

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