Especially for You
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| Single by Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue | |||||||||||||||||
| from the album Ten Good Reasons and Enjoy Yourself (US Release) | |||||||||||||||||
| B-side | "All I Wanna Do Is Make You Mine" | ||||||||||||||||
| Released | 28 November 1988 | ||||||||||||||||
| Format | CD single: Worldwide Vinyl single: Worldwide |
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| Recorded | London, England | ||||||||||||||||
| Genre | Pop | ||||||||||||||||
| Length | 3:58 | ||||||||||||||||
| Label | PWL | ||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Stock, Aitken & Waterman | ||||||||||||||||
| Producer | Stock, Aitken & Waterman | ||||||||||||||||
| Kylie Minogue singles chronology | |||||||||||||||||
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"Especially for You" was the fifth international single released from singer Kylie Minogue in time for the Christmas 1988 market and is a duet with Jason Donovan. It did not appear on her debut album but was included on Jason Donovan's 1989 debut album Ten Good Reasons. The track did appear on the US version of Kylie Minogue's second album Enjoy Yourself. The single was released on 28 November 1988 and was written by Stock Aitken Waterman.
Its strongest market was the UK, where its release followed the on-screen wedding of the two actors' respective characters, Charlene and Scott, on the Australian soap Neighbours which brought peak audiences.
In the UK, the song lodged for 4 weeks at #2 during the Christmas market behind Cliff Richard (a Christmas fixture) reaching #1 for 3 weeks in early 1989, selling just shy of one million copies. It remained Minogue's best selling single in the UK until 2001's "Can't Get You out of My Head" which became a million seller. The single was a big hit throughout Europe and sold 23,037 copies in Sweden.[1] It was her longest single in New Zealand, peaking at 2 staying there for 21 weeks.[2]
Minogue also performed this song as a duet with Kermit the Frog having been invited to become one of a select few to make an episode of the UK ITV show An Audience with... Kylie Minogue in 2001.
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[edit] Track listings
CD single
- Especially For You (Extended) - 5:01
- All I Wanna Do Is Make You Mine (Extended) - 6:00
- Especially For You - 3:58
7" single
- Especially For You - 3:58
- All I Wanna Do Is Make You Mine - 3:34
12" single
- Especially For You (Extended) - 5:01
- All I Wanna Do Is Make You Mine (Extended) - 6:00
[edit] Live performances
Kylie performed the song on the following concert tours:
- Showgirl: The Greatest Hits Tour
- Showgirl: The Homecoming Tour
- Aphrodite World Tour 2011 (only performed during her tour in Manila, Philippines upon request)[3]
[edit] Charts
| Chart (1988/1989) | Peak position |
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| Australian ARIA Singles Chart[4] | 2 |
| Belgium Singles Chart[4] | 1 |
| Danish Singles Chart[4] | 5 |
| Dutch Singles Chart[4] | 6 |
| Eurochart Hot 100 Singles Chart[4] | 1 |
| Finnish Singles Chart[4] | 4 |
| French SNEP Singles Chart[4] | 1 |
| German Singles Chart[4] | 10 |
| Irish Singles Chart[4] | 1 |
| New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart[4] | 2 |
| Norwegian Singles Chart[4] | 10 |
| Swedish Singles Chart[4] | 12 |
| Swiss Singles Chart[4] | 2 |
| UK Singles Chart[4] | 1 |
| IFPI Greece Singles Chart[4] | 1 |
[edit] End of Year Charts
| Year | Country | Position |
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| 1988 | United Kingdom[5][6] | 4 |
| 1989 | 32 | |
| Australia[7] | 17 | |
| Germany[8] | 67 | |
| Switzerland[9] | 22 | |
| Netherlands[10] | 53 |
[edit] Cover versions
- Denise van Outen and Johnny Vaughan along with British Pop group Steps released a cover version for UK TV Charity BBC Children in Need in 1998 which charted at #3 on the British Charts.
- Filipino acoustic band MYMP covered the song for their 2005 album Versions.
- Taiwan pop singer, Genie Cho covered the song in her 2009 album 1 + 1 Play n Fun featuring Leon Jay Williams
- Wink (band), on their 1989 album, Especially for You (Yasashisa ni Tsutsumarete)
[edit] References
- ^ From International Kylie Network 7th issue
- ^ http://charts.org.nz/showitem.asp?interpret=Kylie+%26+Jason&titel=Especially+For+You&cat=s
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGahqLL6ifA
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o slokylie.com - Charts
- ^ http://www.mostynhouseschool.com/pg/80/top50/uk88.htm
- ^ http://www.mostynhouseschool.com/pg/80/top50/uk89.htm
- ^ http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-end-of-year-charts-top-50-singles-1989.htm
- ^ http://ki.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~topsi/deu1989/deu_1989t.html
- ^ http://swisscharts.com/year.asp?key=1989
- ^ http://dutchcharts.nl/jaaroverzichten.asp?year=1989&cat=s
[edit] External links
- Video of Kylie's and Kermit's Duet on YouTube
- performed by Bobbie Eakes and Jeff Trachta (The Bold and the Beautiful)
- [1] Accurate Tabulature and lyrics **** sale UK: "especially for you":(980.000)
| Preceded by "Mistletoe and Wine" by Cliff Richard |
UK Singles Chart number-one single 1 January 1989 (3 weeks) |
Succeeded by "Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart" by Marc Almond with Gene Pitney |
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