I Can't Help It

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"I Can't Help It"

Single by Bananarama
from the album Wow!
B-side(s)	Ecstasy (non-lp track)
Released	December 1987
Format	7" single, 12" single
Recorded	1987
Genre	Pop, Dance
Label	London Records
Writer(s)	Matt Aitken, Sarah Dallin, Siobhan Fahey, Mike Stock, Pete Waterman, Keren Woodward
Producer(s)	Stock Aitken Waterman
Chart positions
#20 (UK) #47 (U.S.)
Bananarama singles chronology
"Love in the First Degree" (1987)	"I Can't Help It" (1987)	"I Want You Back" (1988)

"I Can't Help It" is a song written and recorded by English girl group Bananarama. It is included on their fourth studio album Wow! and was released as its third single except in the U.S., where it was the album's second single (following "I Heard a Rumour"). The track was co-written and produced by the Stock Aitken Waterman (SAW) trio.

The song is a disco-influenced pop tune similar to many hits produced by SAW during this time period. Its suggestive lyrics and music video further perpetuated Bananarama's sensual visual image that the group began to incorporate with their previous album True Confessions. The "I Can't Help It" video featured muscle men dancing, colorful backdrops, and Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward in a milk bath filled with fruit and naked men. Siobhan Fahey, extremely pregnant at the time, also appears but was only shown on camera from the shoulders up.

The single peaked at number twenty in the UK singles chart and the Australian ARIA chart and just missed the top-forty on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. A hit in nightclubs, "I Can't Help It" climbed to number seven on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart.

This is the final Bananarama single to feature Siobhan Fahey, who announced her departure shortly after its release.

The photos on the record sleeve were taken by famous American photographer Herb Ritts. The record sleeves for "I Can't Help It" and "Love in the First Degree" were switched with each other for the UK and North American markets.

[edit] Charts

Chart (1987)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart	20
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	47
U.S. Hot Dance Club Play	7
Australia ARIA singles	20
Spain singles chart	22

Bananarama
Sara Dallin \| Keren Woodward Siobhan Fahey \| Jacquie O'Sullivan
Discography
Studio albums: Deep Sea Skiving \| Bananarama \| True Confessions \| Wow! \| Pop Life \| Please Yourself \| Ultra Violet / I Found Love \| Exotica \| Drama Compilations: Greatest Hits Collection \| Greatest Remixes Collection \| Bunch of Hits \| Master Series \| The Essentials \| The Very Best of Bananarama \| Venus and Other Hits \| Really Saying Something: The Platinum Collection \| The Twelve Inches of Bananarama Singles: Aie a Mwana \| T'ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It) \| Really Saying Something \| Shy Boy \| Cheers Then \| He's Got Tact \| Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye \| Cruel Summer \| Robert DeNiro's Waiting \| Rough Justice \| King of the Jungle \| Hot Line to Heaven \| The Wild Life \| Do Not Disturb \| Venus \| More Than Physical \| A Trick of the Night \| Set on You \| I Heard a Rumour \| Love in the First Degree \| I Can't Help It \| I Want You Back \| The Bananarama Mega-Mix \| Love, Truth and Honesty \| Nathan Jones \| Help! \| Cruel Summer '89 \| Megarama '89 \| Only Your Love \| Preacher Man \| Long Train Running \| Tripping on Your Love \| Movin' On \| Last Thing on My Mind \| More, More, More \| I Found Love \| Every Shade of Blue \| Take Me to Your Heart \| Careless Whisper \| If \| Really Saying Something (Solasso Remix) \| Move in My Direction \| Look on the Floor (Hypnotic Tango)
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Jolley & Swain \| Stock Aitken Waterman