Just What I Always Wanted

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"Just What I Always Wanted"
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Single by Mari Wilson
from the album Showpeople
Released1982
GenrePop, new wave[1]
Length3:22
LabelThe Compact Organization, London Records
Songwriter(s)Teddy Johns
Producer(s)Tony Mansfield
Mari Wilson singles chronology
"Baby It's True"
(1982) 		"Just What I Always Wanted"
(1982) 		"(Beware) Boyfriend"
(1982)

"Just What I Always Wanted" is a song by English singer Mari Wilson, released as a single in 1982. It is from her 1983 debut album Showpeople.

As Wilson's fifth single release, "Just What I Always Wanted" was her first UK top 40 hit, reaching No. 8 in October 1982.[2]

Robin Denselow of The Guardian said of the song: "With 'Just What I Always Wanted', Mari Wilson found the perfect song to fit her image - emotional, slightly camp & sounding as if it might have been a pop hit back in the early 60s. It was tongue-in-cheek but performed with deadpan panache, treated the same way Mari treats her stage uniform with her long gloves, jewellery & enormous beehive hairdo."[3]

Track listing[]

  • A. "Just What I Always Wanted" (Teddy Johns)
  • B1. "Are You There (With Another Girl)" (Bacharach and David)
  • B2. "Woe, Woe, Woe" (Teddy Johns)

Charts[]

Chart (1982/83) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[4] 76
United Kingdom (Official Charts Company) 8

References[]

  1. ^ ""not one Picasso, he'd give me a pair/that's what I've always dreamed of"". 17 November 2005.
  2. ^ "MARI WILSON | Artist". Official Charts. Retrieved 2013-06-26.
  3. ^ The Guardian 17 February 1983 "Robert Denselow reviews the new rock releases" Arts p.12
  4. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 340. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.


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