Use It Up and Wear It Out

"Use It Up and Wear It Out" is a song by US-based dance and soul group Odyssey that was released as a single in 1980. It was originally released as the B-side of "Don't Tell Me, Tell Her". When it was rereleased as the A-side it would go on to spend twelve weeks on the UK Singles Chart, including two at No. 1,^[1] but failed to have any commercial success in the United States.

"Use It Up And Wear It Out"
Single by Odyssey
from the album Hang Together
A-side	"Don't Tell Me, Tell Her"
Released	1980
Genre	Disco
Length	4:10
Label	RCA
Songwriter(s)	Sandy Linzer L. Russell Brown
Odyssey singles chronology
"Don't Tell Me, Tell Her" (1980) "Use It Up And Wear It Out" (1980) "If You're Lookin' for a Way Out" (1980)
Music video
"Use It Up and Wear It Out" on TopPop on YouTube

The song was written by Sandy Linzer and L. Russell Brown,^[2] and produced by Linzer. It was the New York-based disco group's only UK No. 1 single, spending two weeks at the top of the charts from July 26 to August 8, 1980,^[1] and was their most successful single on the UK Singles Chart. In their native United States, it failed to get into the Hot 100.^[3] However along with the track "Don't Tell Me, Tell Her", "Use It Up and Wear It Out" went to number six on the US Billboard Disco Top 100 chart.^[4]

The song was produced by Sandy Linzer and was arranged and conducted by Ray Chew.^[5] The song was also released in 1980 as a 12" single.^[6]

Charts

Chart (1980)	Peak position
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[7]	5
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[8]	4
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[9]	2
UK Singles (OCC)[10]	1
West Germany (GfK)[11]	20

Pat and Mick version

A cover by the duo Pat and Mick, produced by Stock Aitken Waterman, reached No. 22 on the UK Singles Chart in 1990.^[12]

Charts

Chart (1990)	Peak position
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[13]	36
UK Singles (OCC)[14]	22

Other versions

A version by Indigo appears on Queer as Folk 2: Same Men, New Tracks, the second soundtrack album for the UK version of Queer as Folk.^[15]