Wet Wet Wet - Wishing I Was Lucky LIVE 1987

Wet Wet Wet - Wishing I Was Lucky LIVE
Live TV performance known as the 'whistle test' in 1987

I was living in a world of make believe
When my best friend wrote and told me
That there may be a job in the city
I was living in a world of make believe
When my best friend wrote and told me
That there may be a job in the city (And you never told me)
Hey

Now he would dream about another scheme
About another sordid hall of dreams
About a man who was king of industry
He would swear by his mouth almighty
He would buy the best
But never something new, yeah
And he never told me

Oh I like kicking in the gutter and a
Wishing I was lucky
Wishing I was lucky, wishing I was lucky
Oh, I like kicking in the gutter
Wishing I was lucky, I was wishing I was lucky
Oh

It's the only life I know

Lie, lie , lie is all you ever do
To make me wanna push on through
Sing cry, cry, cry,cry is all I ever do
To say that's how you really really wanna push on through

Oh I like kicking in the gutter and a
Wishing I was lucky
Wishing I was lucky, wishing I was lucky
Oh, I like kicking in the gutter
Wishing I was lucky, I was wishing I was lucky
Oh ah, living in the gutter
Wishing I was lucky, wishing I was lucky

C'mon

It's the only life I know

Listen

My best friend wrote and told me so
He says, that there may, hey, be a job in the city, yeah, yeah, oh
In the city

C'mon take it on up, take it on up.

Oh I like kicking in the gutter and a wishing I was lucky
Wishing I was lucky, wishing I was lucky

Oh I like kicking in the gutter, wishing I was lucky
I was wishing I was lucky

wishing I was

wishing I was

wishing I was

wishing I was

was

was

was

Lucky, yeah

Lucky, yeah

Lucky, yeah

Lucky, yeah

C'Mon

Written by Graeme Clark, Tommy Cunningham, Neil Mitchell, Marti Pellow
Produced by Wet Wet Wet
Mixed by Wet Wet Wet
Recorded by Alistair Owen
Published by Precious Music Ltd/Chrysalis Music Ltd

Category:

Music

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• wishing
• was
• lucky
• live
• whistle
• test

[weallliveinusa]

Why is it known as "whistel test".

[nick7sikkema]

the name of the tv show; good show, apllause. bad show. whistling croud.

[wiewiorka78]

what a great voice i love you Marti :D:D:D

wet wet wet the best band in the world :D

[nick7sikkema]

yes they are!

[robr55]

You wouldn't think that song is over 20 years old...it's aged well

[TamaraGalica]

Thanks for posting this. A classic song and a simply superb voice!

[aethelred1000]

So brilliant.... killer song !

[JavierBaby]

I remember watching Whistle Test the night this was first broadcast, I was knocked out then and it still knocks me out now; what a brilliant band, song, arrangement and MP is just on fire, way to go boys. "Oh baby!" right enough :) IV

[djkevano]

Quality !

[knobber]

Class...

[MrShooter16]

This sounds a LOT different, than the US version...

[Winkybus77]

Verry nice !!

[simonjamie]

It was called a "Whistle Test" because if you could whistle the tune of a song having only heard it the once, then the song would surely be a hit. It's true, and the theory works. That's really how the eurovision song contest operates. You only get to hear each song once, and the one that sticks in your mind will be the one you would vote for.... ...... Simplez