Get Away (Georgie Fame song)


"Get Away" was a 1966 No. 1 single in the UK for Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames on the Columbia label. Some original pressings and reissues, as well as BMI, give its title as a single word, "Getaway".
It topped the UK Singles Chart in July 1966 for one week and was the second No. 1 for Fame, following his 1965 hit "Yeh, Yeh". Fame would have a third No. 1 single, in January 1968, with "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde".
The single was released in the United States on the Imperial label, a subsidiary of Liberty, and reached No. 70 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The song was originally written as a jingle for a television advertisement for National petrol. It was later used as the theme-tune for a long-running travel and lifestyle show on Australian television called Getaway. Fame's two subsequent singles, "Sunny" and "Sitting in the Park", reached chart positions of No. 13 and No. 12 respectively. After the album Sweet Things was released, Fame signed to CBS and became a solo artist.