Wishing I Was Lucky

"Wishing I Was Lucky"
Single by Wet Wet Wet
from the album Popped in Souled Out
B-side	"Words of Wisdom", "Still Can't Remember Your Name"
Released	March 1987
Length	3:52
Label	The Precious Organisation, Mercury
Songwriter(s)	Graeme Clark, Tommy Cunningham, Neil Mitchell, Marti Pellow
Producer(s)	Wet Wet Wet, Wilf Smarties
Wet Wet Wet singles chronology
"Wishing I Was Lucky" (1987) "Sweet Little Mystery" (1987)

"Wishing I Was Lucky" is the debut single of Scottish band Wet Wet Wet, released as the lead single from their first album, Popped in Souled Out (1987). Recorded for £600 in Edinburgh, it was released in March 1987 and was their first hit, peaking at No. 6 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 10 in Ireland. The following year, the song reached the top 20 in Belgium and the Netherlands, while in the United States, "Wishing I Was Lucky" became the group's first of two songs to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 58.

Tommy Cunningham later said of the song: "I was in a queue in a chip shop in Glasgow when it came on Radio Clyde. I felt like shouting to everybody, 'That's me and my mates!' It was an incredible feeling I've not forgotten."^[1] Marti Pellow recorded an acoustic, solo version of the song for inclusion on his 2002 album, Marti Pellow Sings the Hits of Wet Wet Wet & Smile.