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"Cuando" (English: "When") is a song written and performed by Guatemalan singer-songwriter Ricardo Arjona for his eighth studio album, Galería Caribe (2000). [1] It was released as the album's lead single in 2000. [2] [3] It became his second number-one song on both the Billboard Hot Latin Songs and Latin Pop Airplay charts in the United States.
Comic Relief USA was a non-profit charity organization whose mission was to raise funds to help those in need—particularly America's homeless. It has raised and distributed nearly US$ 50 million toward providing assistance—including health care services —to homeless people throughout the United States.
The song was first announced as the album's third single when it was revealed that the band would perform the song live on the Comic Relief telethon on Red Nose Day 2011 – Friday 18 March. The group performed the song at 9:15pm, following which an announcement was made that a video for the track would premiere on the same night at 10:30pm.
Irish boy band Boyzone recorded a cover version for the 1999 Comic Relief telethon, shortening the title to "When the Going Gets Tough". Like the original, their version also reached number one on the UK Singles Chart for two weeks, becoming their fifth chart-topper and receiving a platinum certification in the UK.
There is an instrumental Latin version by Edgardo Cintron and The Tiempos Noventa Orchestra. The song was a 1962 Billboard Top 100 entry by Pat Boone. Quando is the only Italian word normally retained in most English-language renditions of the song.
Comic Relief is a British charity, founded in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Sir Lenny Henry in response to the 1983-1985 famine in Ethiopia. [3] The concept of Comic Relief was to get British comedians to make the public laugh, while raising money to help people around the world and in the United Kingdom.
"Living Doll" was written for the film Serious Charge.Lionel Bart had been approached by film producer Mickey Delamar to write songs for the film. The idea for the song came on a Sunday morning in October 1958 while reading a newspaper and seeing an advert for a child's doll.