Charly (song)

"Charly"
Single by the Prodigy
from the album Experience
B-side	"Pandemonium" "Your Love" "Energy Flow (G-Force Part 1)"
Released	12 August 1991 (1991-08-12)[1]
Studio	C.W.S. (Essex, England)
Genre	Rave[2] toytown techno[3] techno-pop[4]
Length	3:56 (original version) 5:27 (Alley Cat Mix) 3:38 (Alley Cat 7-inch edit and video version) 5:13 (Trip into Drum & Bass version)
Label	XL Elektra
Songwriter(s)	Liam Howlett
Producer(s)	Liam Howlett Chaz Stevens
The Prodigy singles chronology
"Charly" (1991) "Everybody in the Place" (1991)
Music video
"Charly" on YouTube
Alternative cover
Digital cover

"Charly" is the debut single released by the British electronic act the Prodigy, later included on their debut album, Experience (1992), although the version featured on the album is the significantly different "Trip into Drum & Bass" remix.

It was released in the UK on 12 August 1991 through XL Recordings on vinyl, CD and cassette tape format. Almost a year later, it was released as a double A-side single with "Everybody in the Place" in the United States on 18 June 1992 through Elektra Records on CD, digipak and maxi-single format.

On 22 November 2004 the single was released on digital download format.^[5] On 1 October 1992, "Charly" had sold over 200,000 copies in the UK which in turn enabled it a Silver BPI certification.^[6] The Alley Cat Mix of "Charly" features as track number three on the expanded disc two of the band's debut album Experience. "Charly" appears on the band's compilation album Their Law: The Singles 1990–2005 as track number nine.