You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)

Album: Youthquake (1984)
Charted: 1 11
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  • If I, I get to know your name
    Well if I, could trace your private number, baby

    All I know is that to me
    You look like you're lots of fun
    Open up your lovin' arms
    I want some, want some

    I set my sights on you (and no one else will do)
    And I, I've got to have my way now, baby

    All I know is that to me
    You look like you're having fun
    Open up your lovin' arms
    Watch out, here I come

    You spin me right 'round, baby
    Right 'round, like a record, baby
    Right 'round, 'round, 'round
    You spin me right 'round, baby
    Right 'round, like a record, baby
    Right 'round, 'round, 'round

    I (I, I, I)
    I got to be your friend now, baby
    And I (I, I, I)
    Would like to move in just a little bit closer

    All I know is that to me
    You look like you're lots of fun
    Open up your lovin' arms
    Watch out, here I come

    You spin me right 'round, baby
    Right 'round, like a record, baby
    Right 'round, 'round, 'round
    You spin me right 'round, baby
    Right 'round, like a record, baby
    Right 'round, 'round, 'round

    I want your love
    I want your love

    All I know is that to me
    You look like you're lots of fun
    Open up your lovin' arms
    Watch out, here I come

    You spin me right 'round, baby
    Right 'round, like a record, baby
    Right 'round, 'round, 'round
    You spin me right 'round, baby
    Right 'round, like a record, baby
    Right 'round, 'round, 'round

    You spin me right 'round, baby
    Right 'round, like a record, baby
    Right 'round, 'round, 'round
    You spin me right 'round, baby
    Right 'round, like a record, baby
    Right 'round, 'round, 'round

    You spin me right 'round, baby
    Right 'round, like a record, baby
    Right 'round, 'round, 'round
    You spin me right 'round, baby
    Right 'round, like a record, baby
    Right 'round, 'round, 'round Writer/s: Michael David Percy, Peter Jozzepi Burns, Stephen Coy, Timothy John Lever
    Publisher: Royalty Network, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 14

  • George Pope from BcIn Canada, 2023, this was used in a commercial for a store brand(PC) frozen pizza, with the music track run extra slow and a high-pitched wheedling singing of the lyrics -- Horrible!
  • Don from Munster, InSomeone actually combined this song with Dannii Minogue's "I Begin To Wonder." Like her sister Kylie, Danni also had an appreciation for mashups and proceeded to make her own version of the mashup.
  • Karen from Manchester, NhIt's funny how this song is so dated, and so timeless, at the same time! It's one of those songs that people hate to admit that they really like.
  • Victoria from Chicago, Ilthis is better than flo rider's version.
  • Cynthia from Scranton, Palove this in the wedding singer! great song and hilarious movie!
  • David from Fort Wayne, InIt's an awesome song.

    Music Video is pretty funny/scary/disturbing though. Made all my friends laugh.
  • Luke from Manchester, EnglandWhy the hell is this filed under the band "Live"?
  • Peter from MiddelburgCompare this with Hazell Dean's 1984 hit Whatever I Do (Wherever I Go). The same producers, the same song.
  • Carrie from Roanoke, VaThis song does sound a little stalkerish, as Lacie pointed out. Still, I have to say it's one of my favorites because of the beat and Peter Burns' deep voice. Too bad Smart Start had to cheapen it by using it in its commercial. Nevertheless, I still like it, and sometimes when I'm jokingly making a pickup line, I'll say to a friend, "You spin me right round like a record, baby!" A couple of my friends and I used to dance to it in the dorms in college. Fun stuff.
  • Lacie from Whitefish, MtIs this song about a stalker? i mean read these lyrics

    Yeah I, I got to know your name
    Well and I, could trace your private number baby
    All I know is that to me
    You look like you're lots of fun
    Open up your lovin' arms
    I want some

    sounds stalkerish
  • Kim from New Btunswick, NjPossibly one of the best pop songs ever written - honest! So fierce!

    The comments above forget to add that it went all the way to number FIVE (!!) UK when it was re-released in 2006.
  • Zak from Superior, CoThis piece never gets old.
  • Dee from Indianapolis, InI enjoy this stuff. Fun music, and it has a nice vibe overall.
  • Dave from Cardiff, WalesIn reply to Edwartd Pearce, "Dead Or Alive's UK hits didn't just stop with "That's The Way..." (No. 25 in 1984), and "You Spin Me Round..." which went to No.1; they also had further suceess in 1985 with No.11 hit "Lover Come Back To Me" and "In Too Deep" which reached No.14, while a series of minor UK Top 40 hits - including "Brand New Lover" - saw the band continue to chart until as late as 1989.
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