Holiday (Madonna song)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Holiday" is a song by American singer-songwriter Madonna from her self-titled debut album. It was released on September 7, 1983 by Sire Records. The song appeared in a remixed version on the 1987 compilation You Can Dance and the 1990 greatest hits compilation The Immaculate Collection. Written by Curtis Hudson and Lisa Stevens of Pure Energy, the track was offered to Madonna by her producer John "Jellybean" Benitez when she was looking for a potential hit track to include in her debut album. After accepting the song, she and Jellybean worked on it and altered its composition by the addition of a piano solo developed by their friend, Fred Zarr. It features instrumentation from guitars, electronic handclaps and synthesized string arrangement while talking about the universal sentiment of taking a holiday. Commercially, the song was Madonna's first hit single when it entered the top twenty of the Billboard Hot 100 while peaking its dancechart. Tten and top forty of many European countries.