| information | Title: Holiday
Writters: Curtis Hudson and Lisa Stevens
Producer: John Jellybean Benitez
Album: Madonna (1983), The First Album (1984), You Can Dance (1987) and The Inmaculate Collection (1990)
Edition Date: It was the third single from the album Madonna in USA , September 1983. In Europe, it was edited in November 1983 and July 1985. It was a promotional single too for the album The Inmaculate Collection in July 1991 for UK.
Length od the album version: 6' 08''
Credits: ©1983 House Of Fun Music Inc. / Spirit One Music BMI. / Pure Energy Pub. Co. inc. BMI | | coments | Madonna was almost finishing her fisrt album. She has recorded seven songs, and people at Sire wanted Ain't No Big Deal to be the 8th track to complete the record. But that song didn't fit quite well, and was finally the B-side of Papa Don't Preach. So they needed an 8th song, and the time and money were running out. The new song came from Jellybean Benitez, a famous Dj who has a large collection of demos for new artist asking him popularity. Madonna liked a song called Holiday, and persuaded Sire bosses to include it in the album, under Jellybean's production. That's the way Madonna got three producers in her first album, quite a goal for a new artist in the early 80's.
Holiday is a simple song, optimistic, and although Jellybean had never produced any song before that, it doesn't have any inexperienced sings. What is more, it is a hard-to-forget tune with a fantastic catchy opening, and playing with the words 'holiday' and 'celebrate'.
Holiday has been the most protected song by Madonna: she has sung it in every tour, and has been released as a single three times (1983, 1985 and 1991). | | videoclip | 
| A music video has been recorded to promote the single Holiday, but it has never seen the light. It seems it was so bad, that Sire decided to use different live permormances of the song instead of the horrible video. The little information it is known about this song is that it was partly filmed in a disco with a pink background, although this is not official info.
The performances used for the alternate video were the ones for the TV programmes American Bandstand in USA and Top Of The Pops in UK, with her brother Christopher as one of the dancers.
In 1991 it was released again as a promotional single for the album The Immaculate Collection, and the video used this time was the live version performed for the Blond Ambition Tour that Alex Keshishian had wonderfuly recorded. |
| | live | | As this is one of Madonna's first songs, and one of the most popular, Madonna has performed Holiday live many different times. Here are the most famous:
 | Madonna was one of the singer who collaborated in the concert Live Aid on July 13th 1985, were she also performed Into The Groove and Love Makes The World Go Round, as a prewiew of what her next album (True Blue) would be. | | Holiday has always been in Madonna's world tours: in her first tour (Virgin Tour) only through the States; the second one, Who's That Girl Tour, as the closing song; in the Blond Ambition Tour, with an attractive choreography; in The Girlie Show, with some military touch; and in her last to date tour, the Drowned World Tour, where she dared to perform the Stardust non official version. | | |  _  |  | In the second promo concert for the album Music, Madonna surprised all including Holiday in the performance. The concert was on November 28th 2000 in the Brixton Acadamy, in London. |
| | collector items | | | Format: cd 5'' / vinilo 12'' / cassette
Source: USA / Europe / Asia
Tracklist: Spotlight, Holiday, Everybody, Physical Attraction, Over And Over, Into The Groove, Where´s The Party, Holiday (Dub Version), Into The Groove (Dub Version), Where´s The Party (Dub Version)
Coments: "Holiday" was choice for the remix álbum "You Can Dance" in 1987. | | | Format: cd 5'' / vinyl 12'' / cassette
Source: USA / Europe / Asia / Australia
Tracklist: Holiday, Lucky Star, Borderline, Like A Virgin, Material Girl, Crazy For You, Into The Groove, Live To Tell, Papa Don´t Preach, Open Your Heart, La Isla Bonita, Like A Prayer, Express Yourself, Cherish, Vogue, Justify My Love, Rescue Me
Coments: "Holiday" can also be found on her first greatest hits album, "The Immaculate Collection". | | | Promotional Limited edition for UK in 12" picture disc. It is made on transparent vinyl and has one of the Madonna's images with the jewelery bikini. This is one on the most beautiful picture discs of all her discography. It only contains tha Album version. | | | When the release of her first greatests hits album, The Immaculate Collestion, and the film In Bed With Madonna, Holiday was released again as a single in 1990, but only as promotional cd single, 7" and 12", with the same cover, and the Album version as the only track. As they were released only as promos, they are very hard to find nowadays. | | | Quite rare 7" vinyl edition for Brazil.. It includes the album versions of Holiday and I know It. | | | Italian 7" commercial edition. | | | 7" single Japan release. | | | Cover of the 7" single Germany release. This cover was used for the 1995 reedition in cd-single with the album versions of Holiday and Licky Star. | | | Rare cover for the Australian 12" maxi single, with Think Of Me as the B-side. | | | Spanish 12" promo edition. | | | Cd single reedition for Japan, with the same cover as the European one, but with the lateral sticker normally used for their releases. | | | One of the fists picture discs of Madonna, was only released in UK in 12". It includes the album versions of Holiday and Think Of Me. | | | Italian 7" promo edition. | | | Spanish 7" promo edition. | | | Rare cover used for the 7" single and 12" maxi for UK with a steam train. | | | 12" maxi single edition for Germany. | | | Rare edition in 12" maxi single for South Africa. It contains the album versions of Holiday and I Know It, and Holiday (Edit Version). | | | Cd single with the rap version made by M.C. Miker "G" y Deejay Svenara. The vinyl edition has a different cover. | | | In 1989 Holiday was released in 3" and 5" cd singles, along with Lucky Star. The Holiday single includes Everybody. Although they are not very hard to find, thery are quite rare items. |
This list of collectibles is not complete, it's just an orientative guide of the most important things. | | lyric | | Holiday | Holiday, Celebrate
Holiday, Celebrate If we took a holiday
Took some time to celebrate
Just one day out of life
It would be, it would be so nice Everybody spread the word
We're gonna have a celebration
All across the world
In every nation
It's time for the good times
Forget about the bad times, oh yeah
One day to come together
To release the pressure
We need a holiday If we took a holiday
Took some time to celebrate
Just one day out of life
It would be, it would be so nice If we took a holiday
Took some time to celebrate
Just one day out of life
It would be, it would be so nice You can turn this world around
And bring back all of those happy days
Put your troubles down
It's time to celebrate | Let love shine
And we will find
A way to come together
And make things better
We need a holiday If we took a holiday
Took some time to celebrate
Just one day out of life
It would be, it would be so nice Holiday, Celebrate
Holiday, Celebrate If we took a holiday
Took some time to celebrate
Just one day out of life
It would be, it would be so nice Holiday, Celebrate
Holiday, Celebrate Holiday, Celebration
Come together in every nation |
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| | Madonna's Great Classic | |  Holiday was the third single of Madonna's music career, and was the first to reach Top20 in the american charts. Madonna has an special love for this song. It is the song she has performed live more times all through her tours.
Holiday has managed to be alive through two decades. In 1990 it was released as a single as a promotion for the first Madonna's greatests hits album. And more recently, a non official remix by Stardust (mixing Holiday with a Daft Punk hit) made the song be heard in lost of dance clubs lately.
| | cover |  This is the cover of the CD single which can be found today in most record shops. It has the same design of the original european single, using one of the photos taken by Gary Heery for the cover of the Madonna album. | | in the chart | | Holiday was Madonna's first Top20 in USA, it entered Billboard Top100 on October 19th 1983, and reached #16 on February 16th of the following year. It reached #34 in Canada and #10 in Japan. In 1991, when it was released again as a single, got an amazing number 5 in UK. | | official versions | 1. Edit / Stereo Edit / Lp Edit (3:50)
2. Mono Edit (3:50)
3. Video Version (3:57)
4. Album Version / 12" Version / Full Length Version / Lp Version (6:08)
5. 1990 Q-sound Remix (4:05)
6. Single Edit / Single Edits Of Album Remixes (4:12)
7. Extended Remix (6:32 / 6:59)
8. Dub Version / Dub (6:56) | | john jellybean benitez | |  Madonna and Jellybean first met at the Funhouse disco in spring of 1983. It was a love at the first sight, both were very attracted by the other, and had strong personalities. It was just a matter of time that the proffesional relationship would go further. Their romance ended in1985. Jellybean has produced a few Madonna's hists such as Holiday and Crazy For You, among others. He has also remixed some of her first singles, as Material Girl. Jellybean grew up in the Bronx, and he was a famous mixer, producer and Dj in the early 80's, working in discos as Funhouse, Xenon and Studio 54 among others.
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