THE RUBETTES - I Can Do It / Juke Box Jive

The Rubettes were an English pop band of the 1970s assembled in 1973 by the songwriting team of Wayne Bickerton, the then head of A&R at Polydor Records, and his co-songwriter, Tony Waddington, after their doo-wop and 1950s American pop-influenced songs had been rejected by a number of existing acts. The band duly emerged at the tail end of the glam rock movement, wearing trademark white suits and cloth caps on stage.The Rubettes' first (and biggest) hit was "Sugar Baby Love" (released in 1974) which was a UK number one, going on to sell around eight million copies worldwide. Two million copies being sold in France alone an achievement matched by no other British group. The distinctive falsetto lead vocal to "Sugar Baby Love" was performed by Paul Da Vinci (real name: Paul Prewer) on the original Polydor recording session who declined the opportunity to actually become a member of the band put together by John Richardson.
The Rubettes went on to have a number of other hits across Europe during the mid-seventies such as "Tonight", "Juke Box Jive" and "I Can Do It" sung by Alan Williams, mostly written by the Bickerton-Waddington songwriting team. Their most successful self composed hit was the 'country rock' styled ballad - "Baby I Know" - which reached number 10 in the UK & Germany in 1977.
The band continued releasing records into the 1980's, then re-grouped in 1983 in order to exploit the German market for 1970s nostalgia. In 1994, the group's profile was raised by the inclusion of "Sugar Baby Love" in the hit movie, Muriel's Wedding. This song was also featured in the 2005 Neil Jordan film, Breakfast on Pluto soundtrack.

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Music

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• rock-n-roll
• glam
• rock
• 50s
• 70s
• doo-wop
• sugar
• baby
• love
• Juke
• Box
• Jive
• can
• do
• it
• vocal

[RubettesNancy]

Great Video!

Thanks for the upload!

Regards, Nancy

[steve01274]

@RubettesNancy Big Rubettes fan, i see Nancy

[Patonight]

Steve thank you for your two vidéos on the group!

It's warm heart!

To know that people have old recording of Rubettes is great!

Thank you for sharing.

Regards

[steve01274]

@Patonight Bringing on Back the Good Times......"Just like they did in 1974"

[conradheidi]

love love love just simply love them. xx

[breizhaganbrav]

J'avais huit ans,très bonne initiation au Rock'N'Roll!

[lkijju]

bloody great song for dancing in front of my PC to, when I feel like a spot of exercise.

[kleinEDV]

I wish the group STATUS QUO would have covered this nice song.

[MegaBergkamp10]

Love "I Can Do It".....

[sunnyuptop123]

love it

[DonnyMacG]

Brilliant, their music filled every youth club dance floor when I was a kid