"I Can Do It" was the fourth single released by the English band

The Rubettes The Rubettes are an English pop/glam rock band put together in 1974 after the release of "Sugar Baby Love", a recording assembled of studio session musicians in 1973 by the songwriting team of Wayne Bickerton, the then head of A&R at Polydor R ...

and the second single from their album We can do it. The song was written and produced by

Wayne Bickerton Wayne Bickerton (born Arthur Ronald Bickerton; 11 July 1941 – 29 November 2015) was a British record producer, songwriter and music business executive. He became well known, with Tony Waddington, as writer and producer of a series of UK chart ...

and

Tony Waddington Anthony Waddington (9 November 1924 – 21 January 1994) was an English football manager at both Crewe Alexandra and Stoke City. Waddington had a seven-year playing career with Crewe Alexandra before becoming a coach at Stoke City. He progress ...

. It reached number 7 in the UK charts, making it the band's third top 10 UK hit from four single releases.
The single was significant in that it was the first release on the

State Records State Records is a British independent record label, established by Wayne Bickerton, Tony Waddington and John Fruin in 1975. The label released hits by many successful artists including The Rubettes, Mac & Katie Kissoon and Delegation. In ...

, a label set up by Bickerton, Waddington and John Fruin in 1975, bearing the catalogue number STAT 1.

Charts

Weekly charts

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Later uses

* Cover versions project

Top of the Pops ''Top of the Pops'' (''TOTP'') is a British Record chart, music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly between 1January 1964 and 30 July 2006. The programme was the world's longest-running weekly music show ...

featured a version of I Can Do It on Top of the Pops, Volume 44 released in March 1975. * 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. * Finnish band Kim and the Hurmio included a version of I Can Do It on their 2003 album "Put The Blame on Me". *

Showaddywaddy Showaddywaddy are a rock and roll group from Leicester, England. They specialise in revivals of hit songs from the 1950s and early 1960s, while also issuing original material. Showaddywaddy spent 209 weeks on the UK Singles Chart, and had 10 T ...

included a version of I Can Do It on their 2006 album I Love Rock'n'Roll.

References

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