Just What I Always Wanted

"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.

Robin Denselow on Just What I Always Wanted
"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."[2]
"Just What I Always Wanted"
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)

As Wilson's fifth single release, "Just What I Always Wanted" was her first UK top 40 hit, reaching No. 8 in October 1982.[3] A hit in Ireland (No. 11), the track also charted in Australia but failed to become a major hit there (stalling at No. 76). Wilson had one subsequent single reach the UK top 40, the Showpeople track "Cry Me a River" (No. 27).


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)
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References

  1. ""not one Picasso, he'd give me a pair/that's what I've always dreamed of"". 17 November 2005.
  2. The Guardian 17 February 1983 "Robert Denselow reviews the new rock releases" Arts p.12
  3. "MARI WILSON | Artist". Official Charts. Retrieved 2013-06-26.
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