abstract:"Charlotte Sometimes" is a non-album single by English alternative rock band The Cure, recorded at producer Mike Hedges' Playground Studios and released on 5 October 1981 by Polydor Records, following the band's third studio album Faith. The titles and lyrics to both sides were based on the book Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer.
"The idea is to strip away any of the preconceived fear factor that classical music can sometimes carry, " says Jonathan Martin, president of the Charlotte Symphony in North Carolina.