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"I Should Be So Lucky" is a pop
Pop music

Pop music is a music genre that features a noticeable rhythmic element, melodies and hook , a mainstream style and a conventional structure.The term "pop music" was first used in 1926 in the sense of "having popular appeal" , but since the 1950s it has been used in the sense of a musical genre, originally characterized as a lighter alternat...
–dance
Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dance. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement....
 song performed by Australian singer Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, Order of the British Empire, , is an Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987....
. The song was written and produced by Stock Aitken Waterman
Stock Aitken Waterman

Stock Aitken Waterman, sometimes known as SAW, were a United Kingdom songwriter and record producer trio who had great success during the mid-late 1980s and early 1990s with many of their productions....
 for Minogue's debut album Kylie
Kylie (album)

Kylie is the debut album by Australian Pop music singer Kylie Minogue. It was released by PWL on July 4, 1988, and received mixed reviews. Chris True of Allmusic describes the album's songs as "dated at best", but writes that Minogue's "cuteness makes these rather vapid tracks bearable"....
 (1988).

The song was released as the album's second single
Single (music)

In the record industry, a single is a song usually used from a current or upcoming album to promote the album. Singles are distributed through a number of ways; originally, they were packaged as "single" records with one or two other songs and sold before the release of the album....
 in December 1987. It was a commercial success, reaching the top ten on the majority of the chart
Record chart

Record chart are a method of ranking music according to popularity during a given period of time. Examples of music charts are the Hit parade, Hot 100 or Top 40....
s it entered, and number one in the United Kingdom and Australia. The song became the highest selling single in Australia in 1988 and was named "Record of the Year" by the Japanese Phonographic Record Association.

r the success of her debut single "Locomotion
The Loco-Motion

"The Loco-Motion" is a 1962 pop music written by United States songwriters Gerry Goffin and Carole King. The song is notable for making the American Top 5 three times – each time in a different decade: for Little Eva in 1962 ; for Grand Funk Railroad in 1974 ; and for Kylie Minogue in 1988 ....
" in Australia, Minogue traveled to London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 to work with Stock, Aitken and Waterman
Stock Aitken Waterman

Stock Aitken Waterman, sometimes known as SAW, were a United Kingdom songwriter and record producer trio who had great success during the mid-late 1980s and early 1990s with many of their productions....
, a successful British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 writing and production team.






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"I Should Be So Lucky" is a pop
Pop music

Pop music is a music genre that features a noticeable rhythmic element, melodies and hook , a mainstream style and a conventional structure.The term "pop music" was first used in 1926 in the sense of "having popular appeal" , but since the 1950s it has been used in the sense of a musical genre, originally characterized as a lighter alternat...
–dance
Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dance. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement....
 song performed by Australian singer Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, Order of the British Empire, , is an Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987....
. The song was written and produced by Stock Aitken Waterman
Stock Aitken Waterman

Stock Aitken Waterman, sometimes known as SAW, were a United Kingdom songwriter and record producer trio who had great success during the mid-late 1980s and early 1990s with many of their productions....
 for Minogue's debut album Kylie
Kylie (album)

Kylie is the debut album by Australian Pop music singer Kylie Minogue. It was released by PWL on July 4, 1988, and received mixed reviews. Chris True of Allmusic describes the album's songs as "dated at best", but writes that Minogue's "cuteness makes these rather vapid tracks bearable"....
 (1988).

The song was released as the album's second single
Single (music)

In the record industry, a single is a song usually used from a current or upcoming album to promote the album. Singles are distributed through a number of ways; originally, they were packaged as "single" records with one or two other songs and sold before the release of the album....
 in December 1987. It was a commercial success, reaching the top ten on the majority of the chart
Record chart

Record chart are a method of ranking music according to popularity during a given period of time. Examples of music charts are the Hit parade, Hot 100 or Top 40....
s it entered, and number one in the United Kingdom and Australia. The song became the highest selling single in Australia in 1988 and was named "Record of the Year" by the Japanese Phonographic Record Association.

Background and recording

After the success of her debut single "Locomotion
The Loco-Motion

"The Loco-Motion" is a 1962 pop music written by United States songwriters Gerry Goffin and Carole King. The song is notable for making the American Top 5 three times – each time in a different decade: for Little Eva in 1962 ; for Grand Funk Railroad in 1974 ; and for Kylie Minogue in 1988 ....
" in Australia, Minogue traveled to London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 to work with Stock, Aitken and Waterman
Stock Aitken Waterman

Stock Aitken Waterman, sometimes known as SAW, were a United Kingdom songwriter and record producer trio who had great success during the mid-late 1980s and early 1990s with many of their productions....
, a successful British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 writing and production team. They knew little of Minogue and had forgotten that she was arriving; as a result, they wrote "I Should Be So Lucky" in forty minutes while she waited outside the recording studio. Mike Stock
Mike Stock

Mike Stock is a English people songwriter and record producer best known for being a member of the songwriting and record production trio Stock Aitken Waterman....
 wrote the lyrics for the song in response to what he had learned about Minogue prior to her arrival. He believed that although she was a successful soap star in Australia and very talented, there must be something wrong with her and figured that she must be unlucky in love. Minogue recorded the song in less than an hour, which Stock attributes to her good ear for music and her quick memorization skills. After Minogue finished the recording session she returned home to Australia to continue work on the soap opera
Soap opera

A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in Serial format on television or radio. Programs described as soap operas have existed as an entertainment long enough for audiences to recognize them simply by the term soap....
, Neighbours
Neighbours

Neighbours is a long-running multiple Logie Award-winning Australian soap opera, which first aired in March 1985. The series follows the daily lives of several families who live in the six houses at the end of Ramsay Street, a short cul-de-sac in the fictional middle-class suburb of Erinsborough....
.

"I Should Be So Lucky" is written in the common verse-chorus form and features instrumentation from keyboard
Musical keyboard

A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the interval of an octave....
s and guitar
Guitar

The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
s.

Music video

Kylieminogueishouldbesoluckyvideo
The music video
Music video

A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a pop music or rock music song with lyrics. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings....
 for "I Should Be So Lucky" was directed by Chris Langman and filmed in late 1987 at Channel 7
Seven Network

The Seven Network is an Australia Television broadcasting in Australia owned by the Seven Media Group. It dates back to 2 December 1956, when the first stations on the Very high frequency frequency were established in Sydney and Melbourne....
 Studios in Melbourne
Melbourne

Melbourne is the more common name for the geographic region and Census in Australia of the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area. It is the second List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a population of approximately 3.8 million and serves as the List of Australian capital cities of Victoria ....
, Australia. The video features Minogue walking through her home, with scenes of her dancing in front of a colourful chalkboard background intercut throughout. It presented a cute, wholesome, young "girl-next-door" image of Minogue to the public, with scenes of her giggling and making funny faces to the camera.

The video premiered in the UK in January 1988. The complete version of "I Should Be So Lucky" featured in the music video has been released commercially through multiple VHS
VHS

The Video Home System, better known by its abbreviation VHS, is a recording and playing standard developed by JVC and launched in Europe and Asia in September 1976, and the United States in June 1977....
 and DVD
DVD

DVD, also known as "Digital Versatile Disc" or "Digital Video Disc,"is a popular optical disc data storage device media format. Its main uses are video and data storage....
 collections. Its most recent inclusion is on the companion DVD to her second greatest hits album Ultimate Kylie
Ultimate Kylie

Ultimate Kylie is the title of Australia Dance-pop singer–songwriter Kylie Minogue's greatest hits album released in November 2004. Spanning two compact disc, the album contains work from all nine of her studio albums plus two new tracks, "I Believe in You " and "Giving You Up" ....
 in 2004.

As satire

The British satirical programme Spitting Image
Spitting Image

Spitting Image was a United Kingdom satire puppet show which ran on the ITV television network from 1984 to 1996. It was produced by Spitting Image Productions for Central Independent Television....
 made a send-up of I Should Be So Lucky in which Minogue is depicted as being brought to life in a way similar to Frankenstein's monster
Frankenstein's monster

Frankenstein's monster is a fictional character that first appeared in Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein. In the novel, the creature has no name?a symbol of his parentlessness and lack of human sense of self and identity....
 in an old 1930s movie. The action shifts between the laboratory to a apartment similar to that of the original video. The implication is that she is a "creation" of the producers.

The song also pokes fun at her performance in the Australian soap opera
Soap opera

A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in Serial format on television or radio. Programs described as soap operas have existed as an entertainment long enough for audiences to recognize them simply by the term soap....
 Neighbours
Neighbours

Neighbours is a long-running multiple Logie Award-winning Australian soap opera, which first aired in March 1985. The series follows the daily lives of several families who live in the six houses at the end of Ramsay Street, a short cul-de-sac in the fictional middle-class suburb of Erinsborough....
 in which she played Charlene Mitchell, later Robinson
Charlene Robinson

Charlene Edna Robinson was a fictional character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours played by Kylie Minogue from 1986 until 1988. Charlene is considered to be the most popular character Neighbours has ever had....
.

It begins with Minogue being brought to life by a mad scientist and singing:

I'm the girl from Neighbours,
I'm a bit part in the soap.
But now I'm really famous
With producers known as hope.
...
My voice is just as subtle
As my playing of Charlene.
But there's no disadvantage
Cause it's all done by machine.

Stock, Aitken and Waterman are combined together as a large tape player providing creature-Minogue's voice which at one point is distorted to sound like Rick Astley

Chart performance

"I Should Be So Lucky" entered the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The chart week runs from Sunday to Saturday, with the chart being printed in Music Week magazine , ChartsPlus , and published online on various sites ....
 on 9 January 1988 at number ninety, before rising to number one. It maintained the number one position for five weeks. It became the third biggest selling single of the year with sales of 672,568. In Australia, the song reached number one on the singles chart
ARIA Charts

File:ARIA Charts Logo.pngThe ARIA charts are the main Australia record charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling single and albums in various genres in Australia....
 and became the country's highest selling single of 1988. The song also reached number one in Finland
Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
, Germany, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
 and Japan. In 1989, the track was awarded "Record of the Year" by the Japanese Phonographic Record Association.

"I Should Be So Lucky" performed moderately well in North America. In the United States, the song peaked at number twenty-eight on the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard Single popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on airplay and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the airplay tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday....
, becoming Minogue's first US top forty release. The track reached number ten on the Hot Dance Club Play
Hot Dance Club Play

Billboard 's Hot Dance Club Play chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. nightclubs. It is compiled by Billboard exclusively from playlists submitted by nightclub disc jockeys who must apply and meet certain criteria to become "Billboard-reporting DJs."...
 chart and number thirty-two on the Hot Dance Singles Sales
Hot Dance Singles Sales

Hot Dance Singles Sales is a chart released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It measures the sale of commercially released singles that deal with dance music and remixes....
 chart. In Canada, "I Should Be So Lucky" reached number twenty-five on the singles chart. In Sweden,the single sold 20,781 copies.

Formats and track listings

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "I Should Be So Lucky".

Australian & European & Asian Vinyl Single

7" Vinyl Single
  1. "I Should Be So Lucky" – 3:24
  2. "I Should Be So Lucky" (Instrumental) – 3:24
12" Vinyl Single
  1. "I Should Be So Lucky" (Extended mix) – 6:08
  2. "I Should Be So Lucky" (Instrumental) – 3:24
12" Remix
  1. "I Should Be So Lucky" (Bicentennial remix) – 6:12
  2. "I Should Be So Lucky" (Instrumental) – 3:24

North American Vinyl Single

7" Single
  1. "I Should Be So Lucky" – 3:24
  2. "I Should Be So Lucky" (Instrumental) – 3:24
12" Vinyl Single
  1. "I Should Be So Lucky" (Extended mix) – 6:08 *
  2. "I Should Be So Lucky" (Bicentennial remix) – 6:12 **
  3. "I Should Be So Lucky" (Instrumental) – 3:24

Honk-Kong 3" CD Single

  1. "I Should Be So Lucky" (Extended mix) – 6:08
  2. "Got to Be Certain
    Got to Be Certain

    "Got to Be Certain" is a Pop music song written by United Kingdom songwriting team Stock Aitken Waterman for Kylie Minogue's debut studio album Kylie ....
    " (Extended version) – 6:36
  • * - Known as "Original Dance Mix" in the USA.
    • ** - Known as "Dance Mix" in the USA.


Credits and personnel

The following people contributed to "I Should Be So Lucky":
  • Kylie Minogue - lead vocals
  • Dee Lewis, Mae McKenna - backing vocals
  • Mike Stock
    Mike Stock

    Mike Stock is a English people songwriter and record producer best known for being a member of the songwriting and record production trio Stock Aitken Waterman....
     - backing vocals, keyboards
    Musical keyboard

    A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the interval of an octave....
  • Matt Aitken
    Matt Aitken

    Matt Aitken , is a British songwriter and record producer, brought up in Astley, Greater Manchester, best known as the creative force behind the 1980s songwriting/production trio Stock Aitken Waterman....
     - guitar
    Guitar

    The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
    s, keyboards
  • Mark McGuire - engineering
    Audio engineering

    Audio engineering is a part of audio science dealing with the recording and reproduction of sound through mechanical and electronic means. The field draws on many disciplines, including electrical engineering, acoustics, psychoacoustics, and music....
  • Pete Hammond - mixing
    Audio mixing (recorded music)

    Audio mixing is the process by which a multitude of recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics and panoramic position are commonly being manipulated and effects such as reverb might be added....


Charts

Chart (1987/88)Peak
position
Australian Singles Chart
ARIA Charts

File:ARIA Charts Logo.pngThe ARIA charts are the main Australia record charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling single and albums in various genres in Australia....
1
Austrian Singles Chart4
Eurochart Hot 1001
French Singles Chart4
German Singles Chart
Media Control Charts

The official Music Charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband der phonographischen Wirtschaft ....
1
Hong Kong Singles Chart1
Israeli Singles Chart1
Italian Singles Chart1
Japanese Singles Chart1
Norwegian Singles Chart 5
Swedish Singles Chart13
South Africa Singles Chart1
Swiss Singles Chart1
UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The chart week runs from Sunday to Saturday, with the chart being printed in Music Week magazine , ChartsPlus , and published online on various sites ....
1
Ireland1
US Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard Single popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on airplay and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the airplay tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday....
28


Cover versions

In 1992, the Egypt
Egypt

Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
ian pop singer Simon recorded a cover of the song with new lyrics in Arabic titled "Bahibak Aawy". In September 2007, a cover version
Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition of a previously recorded, commercially released song.In its current use, it can sometimes have a pejorative meaning — implying that the original recording should be regarded as the definitive version, usually in the sense of an "authentic" rendition, and all...
 of "I Should Be So Lucky" appeared on the album Dolce Vita by Spanish singer Soraya Arnelas
Soraya Arnelas

Soraya Arnelas , better known by her stage name Soraya, is a popular Spain singer. Soraya will represent Spain at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia....
. Also that year, Japanese duo mihimaru GT
Mihimaru GT

Mihimaru GT is a J-Urban and J-pop group signed to Universal Music Japan and managed by Tearbridge Productions, a subsidiary of Stardust Promotion and Avex....
 released a hip pop cover version of the song. It was released as a double A-side
A-side and B-side

A-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of 7 inch vinyl records on which single s were released beginning in the 1950s. The terms have come to refer to the types of song conventionally placed on each side of the record, with the A-side being the featured song , while the B-side, or flipside, is a secondary song that ofte...
 single, along with the song "Ai Kotoba", in Japan in November 2007.

In Popular Culture


  • The Kylie Minogue
    Kylie Minogue

    Kylie Ann Minogue, Order of the British Empire, , is an Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987....
     recording features in the film "Cookie
    Cookie (film)

    Cookie is a 1989 in film comedy film released on August 23, 1989 in film by Warner Brothers....
     (1989).


External links

  • — official website.