Just Got Lucky Explained
Just Got Lucky should not be confused with Just Got Lucky (Dokken song).
| Just Got Lucky |
| Cover: | JustGotLucky.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | JoBoxers |
| Album: | Like Gangbusters |
| B-Side: | Crosstown Walkup |
| Released: | May 1983 |
| Recorded: | 1982 |
| Genre: | New wave[1] |
| Length: | 4:42 (12")
3:44 (single version) |
| Producer: | Alan Shacklock |
| Prev Title: | Boxerbeat |
| Prev Year: | 1983 |
| Next Title: | Johnny Friendly |
| Next Year: | 1983 |
"Just Got Lucky" was the second single from the British band JoBoxers. The track was initially released on the band's debut album, Like Gangbusters, in 1983. The song reached the top ten in the UK[2] and the top 40 in the United States that autumn. It was later released on the band's albums Doing the Boxerbeat - The Anthology and Essential Boxerbeat.
Chart history
In popular culture
- In December 2008, the song was used in a radio advert, for a Max's Restaurant promotion "Lucky with the Tilaok".
- It was included in the compilation album Chorus Girl and the films The 40-Year-Old Virgin,[8] Just My Luck, Philippine film Bagets, and Lucky 13. The song was also used in the final weekly of .
- In November 12, 2017, the song was performed by the cast of Goin' Bulilit at the opening of the 1980s episode.
- In November 14, 2020, the song was performed on an Eat Bulaga! segment "Social Dis-dancing" for a dance challenge
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Gino Padilla on 'The Ryzza Mae Show' "...a perfect example of a song for that era, "Just Got Lucky" by Jo Boxers. Gino even showed Ryzza Mae the dance moves of the popular New Wave hit in the early 80's"; Inquirer Entertainment . Entertainment.inquirer.net . 2014-01-26 . 2016-08-05.
- Book: Roberts, David. British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). 2006. Guinness World Records Limited. London. 1-904994-10-5. 284.
- Book: Kent, David. Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book, St Ives, N.S.W . 1993. 0-646-11917-6.
- Web site: Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada . Collectionscanada.gc.ca . 1983-01-15 . 2018-12-01.
- Web site: Official Charts Company . Officialcharts.com . 1983-05-21 . 2018-12-02.
- Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 -
- Web site: Cash Box Top 100 Singles, December 3, 1983 . December 1, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150603033214/http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/80s_files/19831203.html . June 3, 2015 . dead .
- Web site: IMDb. Just Got Lucky. Soundtrack to The 40-Year-Old-Virgin. 18 December 2012.
