What I Like About You (The Romantics song)

"What I Like About You"
Single by the Romantics
from the album The Romantics
B-side"First in Line"
ReleasedDecember 1979
RecordedSeptember 1979
StudioCoconuts Recording (Miami Beach)
Genre
Length
  • 2:55
  • 2:49 (music video)
Label
Songwriter(s)
  • Wally Palmar
  • Mike Skill
  • Jimmy Marinos
Producer(s)Pete Solley
The Romantics singles chronology
"Tell It to Carrie"
(1978) 		"What I Like About You"
(1979) 		"When I Look in Your Eyes"
(1980)

"What I Like About You" is a song by American rock band the Romantics, released in December 1979 as the lead single from their 1980 self-titled debut album. The song was written by band members Wally Palmar, Mike Skill and Jimmy Marinos. Marinos, the band's drummer, is the lead vocalist on the song. The band filmed a music video for the song that appeared frequently on MTV during the early 1980s.

Covers of the song include versions by Michael Morales in 1989, by Lillix in 2003 on the Freaky Friday soundtrack as well as in The WB comedy series What I Like About You,[citation needed] and by 5 Seconds of Summer for their 2014 self-titled debut album.

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