Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)

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""Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)"
Single by Erasure
from the album Erasure
B-side	"Hi NRG"
Released	27 November 1995
Recorded	1995
Genre	Synthpop, dance
Length	4:23 (single edit) 6:44 (album version)
Label	Mute (UK) Elektra (U.S.)
Songwriter(s)	Vince Clarke, Andy Bell
Producer(s)	Thomas Fehlmann, Gareth Jones
Erasure singles chronology
"Stay with Me" (1995) ""Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)" (1995) "Rock Me Gently" (1996)
Music video
"Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)" on YouTube

"Fingers & Thumbs (Cold Summer's Day)" is a 1995 song by British synthpop duo Erasure. It originally appeared on the soundtrack to the documentary film Wigstock: the Movie, as "Cold Summer's Day." The duo re-recorded it for their seventh studio album, Erasure with new lyrics. Composed by Vince Clarke and Andy Bell, it is an uptempo dance track. Upon the release, the song became Erasure's twenty-second consecutive Top 20 hit on the UK Singles Chart. In Germany, it stopped at number sixty-nine, while it was a hit on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play, peaking at number ten.

The song was released as the second single from the album by Mute Records in the UK and Elektra Records in the United States. The album version is over six minutes long; the single edit removes an extended instrumental section between the second and third choruses. The B-side is a cover version of "High Energy" (retitled "Hi NRG"), a 1984 number-one US dance chart hit by American singer Evelyn Thomas.

Critical reception[]

British magazine Music Week wrote, "Initially harking back to a more familiar ground, Clarke and Bell deliver a higly hummable four-on-the-floor putdown which transmutes into an epic of scorn."^[1]

Music video[]

A music video was made to accompany the song. It features Bell singing the song as he walks through an amusement park. The actual filming was done in the London Docklands.[1] The video was published on YouTube in September 2014 and as of November 2020, it has got more than 427 000 views.^[2]

Track listings[]

Charts[]

References[]

• "Being an extra for the Fingers and Thumbs video", "Erasure Information Service". Retrieved 20 June 2007.