Double sheet of music with lyrics copyright 1972."Beautiful Sunday" is a song written by Daniel Boone and Rod McQueen (real name David Balfe) and performed by Boone. It appeared on his 1972 album Beautiful Sunday. It has been described as the biggest international hit in the British bubblegum pop genre. Robin Carmody of Freaky Trigger praised the song for its "timelessly, wonderfully obvious chord sequence" and euphoric tone, "without any hint that driving to and from your day's pleasure and relaxation might even contain anything sexual, let alone anything depressing, tedious and ugly." He named it the greatest British bubblegum pop song, deeming it "a neo-folk song structure of almost religious, redemptive simplicity / sublimity. One of the greatest singles of the 70s, if not ever." "Beautiful Sunday" was released in 1972. It peaked at No. 15 on Billboard Hot 100 on 16–23 September 1972 and at No. 1 on WCFL on 21 October 1972. The song also made the charts in New Zealand (gold record), France, Japan, South Africa, Mexico, and Germany, where it held the No. 1 position from May 1972 to late June 1972. The song peaked at No. 21 in the United Kingdom on its original release in 1972, and reached No. 53 when re-released in 1974. Will be sent out in a stiffened envelope