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Respectable (Mel & Kim song)

"Respectable"
Respectable - Mel and Kim.jpg
Single by Mel and Kim
from the album F.L.M.
B-side "From A Whisper To A Scream"
Released 18 February 1987
Format 7" single, 12" maxi
Recorded 1987
Genre Dance-pop
Length 3:21
Label Supreme
Atlantic (U.S.)
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Stock/Aitken/Waterman
Mel and Kim singles chronology
"Showing Out (Get Fresh at the Weekend)"
(1986)
"Respectable"
(1987)
"F.L.M."
(1987)
"Showing Out (Get Fresh at the Weekend)"
(1986)
"Respectable"
(1987)
"F.L.M."
(1987)

"Respectable" is a Mel and Kim song written and produced by that became a UK number one single for one week in March 1987. It was the second UK number one single produced by Stock/Aitken/Waterman, following Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" in 1985, and the first UK number one single that Stock/Aitken/Waterman had written themselves. The single also topped the charts in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Australia and New Zealand in 1987.

Girl band Girls@Play released a cover version of "Respectable" in 2001 which peaked at number 29 in the UK.

The song was sampled in Pop Will Eat Itself's song, "Hit the Hi-Tech Groove" on their 1987 album Box Frenzy.


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