Can't Get Used to Losing You#The Beat recording

"Can't Get Used to Losing You" was recorded by Andy Williams in December 1962 and released in 1963. It peaked at number two in both the US and the UK. In the US, the single spent four weeks at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (behind "He's So Fine" by the Chiffons and "I Will Follow Him" by Little Peggy March) and topped the Easy Listening chart for four weeks, peaking on both in April 1963.Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications) Williams' recording peaked at number one on the Cashbox charts.{{cite web|url=http://www.popularsong.org/tidbits25.html|title=PopularSong.org, "Meet the Boxes, Juke and Cash"}} Williams' vocals on the song's verses were double-tracked in unison, and overdubbed on the choruses so the listener hears Williams singing harmony with himself.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}} The song appears on an album titled Days of Wine and Roses and Other TV Requests in North America and Can't Get Used to Losing You and Other Requests in the United Kingdom.

In 1963, Patti Page recorded a version, with strings background, as part of the Say Wonderful Things album. In the same year, Paul Anka included it on the album Song I Wish I'd Written, and Julie London performed it on The Wonderful World of Julie London. Bobby Rydell did his rendition the same year. In 1965, Chad and Jeremy's cover appeared on their Before and After.

Vic Laurens recorded in it 1963 in French on the Mercury label, title in French : Je ne peux pas t'oublier (I can't forget you.)

Dandy and the Israelites performed it as reggae in 1970, whilst Danny Ray also released a reggae version in 1976.

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| artist = The Beat

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| B-side = "Spar Wid Me"

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The Beat (known as The English Beat in the USA) originally recorded their cover of "Can't Get Used to Losing You" as a track on their 1980 album I Just Can't Stop It. It was not released as a single until three years later, just as the Beat announced that they were breaking up. The single was remixed slightly from the album track, and became the band's fifth and final top ten UK hit, and their highest-charting single release.

Elvis Costello, who singled out the song as his favorite Doc Pomus composition, had hoped to cover the song, but scrapped the idea after "the Beat beat me to it".{{Cite book |last=Costello |first=Elvis |title=Unfaithful music & disappearing ink |date=2015 |publisher=Blue Rider Press |isbn=978-0-399-16725-6 |location=New York}}

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.{{cite AV media notes |title=I Just Can't Stop It |others=The Beat |publisher=Go-Feet Records |year=1980 |id=BEAT 1 |type=liner notes}}

• Dave Wakeling – lead vocals; rhythm guitar
• Ranking Roger – toasting; vocals
• Andy Cox – lead guitar
• David Steele – bass guitar
• Everett Morton – drums
• Saxa – saxophone

British singer Colour Girl had a number 31 hit with her UK garage version in 2000.{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/7564/colour-girl/|title=COLOUR GIRL - full Official Chart History - Official Charts Company|website=OfficialCharts.com}}

• List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1963 (U.S.)

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