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Respectable (Mel and 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.)
Writer(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)

"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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