"Yellow Orange Rays" is a song by Australian-born singer-songwriter, record producer, and remix engineer

Sam Sparro Samuel Falson (born 8 November 1982), better known by his stage name Sam Sparro, is an Australian singer, songwriter and record producer. He was signed to the British record label Island Records. Sparro is best known for his 2008 single " Bl ...

. The song was released as a b-sided digital single on 9 November 2012 to Dutch

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. It is the third single from his sophomore studio album '' Return to Paradise'', within the country of Belgium. The single entered the Belgian

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Chart on 29 December at No. 92, enviably peaking at No. 74, it managing to stay on the chart for four consecutive weeks. Two weeks earlier in the country, on the week of 15 December, the single entered the Dance Bubbling Under Chart at #4; on this chart "Yellow Orange Rays" peaked at No. 2 and maintained this chart position for three consecutive weeks, managing to stay on the charts for six consecutive weeks in all, the last three weeks of December 2012 and first three weeks of January 2013.

Background

Jesse Rogg, who is a close friend of Sparro's is usually the main producer on his works, but was only involved in the post production of "Yellow Orange Rays". Tim Anderson produced the track, also writing it with Sparro. Bethany Cosentino of

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sings backing vocals for "Yellow Orange Rays" as well as contributing to the song as a writer. Piano in the song is by Charlie Willcocks, who has worked with Sparro before on the songs "Still Hungry" from his debut album, ''

'', and appears not only as a pianist on the song " Happieness", but a writer.

Track list

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of '' Return to Paradise''. * Tim Anderson – writing *

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– writing * John Fields – mixing * Jesse Rogg – post production * Ryan Shields – percussion *

– vocals, writing, synths, additional piano * Charlie Willcocks – piano

Chart performance

Weekly charts

References

{{Sam Sparro 2012 singles Sam Sparro songs 2012 songs EMI Records singles Songs written by Sam Sparro Songs written by Tim Anderson (musician)