Especially for You

Infobox Single
Name = Especially for You


Artist = Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan
from Album = Ten Good Reasons
Released = November 28, 1988
Format = CD single: Worldwide
Vinyl single: Worldwide
Recorded = London, England
Genre = Pop/Ballad
Length = 3:58
Label = PWL
Writer = Stock, Aitken & Waterman
Producer = Stock, Aitken & Waterman
Chronology = Kylie Minogue singles
Last single = "Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi"
(1988)
This single = "Especially for You"
(1988)
Next single = "It's No Secret"
(1988)Extra chronology
Artist = Jason Donovan
Type = singles
Last single = "Nothing Can Divide Us"
(1988)
This single = "Especially for You"
(1988)
Next single = "Too Many Broken Hearts"
(1989)

"Especially for You" was the fifth international single released from singer Kylie Minogue in time for the Christmas 1988 market and is a duet with Jason Donovan. It did not appear on her debut album but was included on Jason Donovan's 1989 debut album "Ten Good Reasons". The track did appear on the US version of Kylie Minogue's sophomore album "Enjoy Yourself". The single was released on November 28, 1988 and was written by Stock Aitken Waterman.

Its strongest market was the UK, where its release followed the on-screen wedding of the two actors' respective characters, Charlene and Scott, on the Australian soap "Neighbours" which brought peak audiences.

In the UK, the song lodged for 3 weeks at #2 during the Christmas market behind Cliff Richard (a Christmas fixture) reaching #1 for 4 weeks in early 1989, selling just shy of one million copies. It remained Minogue's best selling single until the 2001 "Can't Get You out of My Head" million seller.

Minogue also performed this song as a duet with Kermit the Frog having been invited to become one of a select few to make an episode of the UK ITV show "An Audience with... (Kylie Minogue)" in 2001.

Denise van Outen and Johnny Vaughan along with British Pop group Steps released a cover version for UK TV Charity BBC Children in Need in 1998 which charted at #3 on the British Charts.

More recently Hugh Sowerby and Daniel Osborne performed the song at the DJ Sports Personality of the Year Awards 2008. The duo are currently recording a comic relief version for release later in the year.Fact|date=September 2008

Track listings

CD single
#Especially For You (Extended) - 5:01
#All I Wanna Do Is Make You Mine (Extended) - 6:00
#Especially For You - 3:58

7" single
#Especially For You - 3:58
#All I Wanna Do Is Make You Mine - 3:34

12" single
#Especially For You (Extended) - 5:01
#All I Wanna Do Is Make You Mine (Extended) - 6:00

Charts

External links

* [http://www.kylie.com/ Kylie.com] — official website.
*YouTube|tOz_8zSDXQ0|Video of Kylie's and Kermit's Duet
* [http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/m/mymp/especially_for_you_ver3_tab.htm] Accurate Tabulature and lyrics **** sale uk: "especially for you":(980.000)