I Can Do It Explained

I Can Do It
Cover:	ICanDoItRubettes.jpg
Type:	single
Artist:	The Rubettes
Album:	We Can Do It
B-Side:	If You've Got the Time
Released:	March 1975
Genre:	Glam rock
Label:	State Records/Polydor Records
Producer:	Wayne Bickerton, Tony Waddington
Prev Title:	Juke Box Jive
Prev Year:	1975
Next Title:	Foe-Dee-O-Dee
Next Year:	1975

"I Can Do It" was the fourth single released by the English band The Rubettes and the second single from their album We can do it. The song was written and produced by Wayne Bickerton and Tony Waddington. It reached number 7 in the UK charts, making it the band's third top 10 UK hit from four single releases.^[1] ^[2]
The single was significant in that it was the first release on the State Records, a label set up by Bickerton, Waddington and John Fruin in 1975, bearing the catalogue number STAT 1.^[3]

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1975)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report)^[4]	89
France (SNEP)^[5]	2

Year-end charts

Chart (1975)	Position
Belgium (Ultratop Flanders)^[6]	31
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)^[7]	82
Netherlands (Single Top 100)^[8]	68
West Germany (Official German Charts)^[9]	20

Later uses

Cover versions project Top of the Pops featured a version of I Can Do It on Top of the Pops, Volume 44 released in March 1975.^[10]
In 1977, the Liverpool Football club released We Can Do It as a single, to the tune of I Can Do It.
Netherlands Glam Rock band Block Busters included a cover version of the song on their album Powder to the People in 1999.^[11]
Finnish band Kim and the Hurmio included a version of I Can Do It on their 2003 album "Put The Blame on Me".^[12]
Showaddywaddy included a version of I Can Do It on their 2006 album I Love Rock'n'Roll.^[13] ^[14]

Notes and References

Web site: Rubettes UK Chart History. .
Web site: Rubettes Discography 1975. Rubettes Official Site. 24 September 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20180119114935/http://www.rubettes.com/discography/1975.php. 19 January 2018. dead.
Web site: Rubettes - I Can Do It. Discogs. 24 September 2017.
Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 261.
Web site: Charts singles Top 50 en France: 13 Jul 1975 . 2017 .
Web site: Jaaroverzichten 1975. Ultratop. 14 August 2021.
Web site: Top 100-Jaaroverzicht van 1975. Dutch Top 40. 14 August 2021.
Web site: Jaaroverzichten – Single 1975. dutchcharts.nl. 14 August 2021.
Web site: Top 100 Single-Jahrescharts. German. GfK Entertainment. offiziellecharts.de. 14 August 2021.
Web site: Juke Box Jive - Top of the Pops, Vol 44. secondhandsongs.com. 25 September 2017.
Web site: Block Busters - Powder to the People. Discogs. 25 September 2017.
Web site: I Can Do It - Kim and the Hurmio. secondhandsongs.com. 25 September 2017.
Web site: I Love Rock'n'Roll - Showaddywaddy. Amazon.com. 25 September 2017.
Web site: Cover versions of I Can Do It. secondhandsongs.com. 25 September 2017.