Billboard #1 Hits: #674: ‘Wild, Wild West’- The Escape Club. November 12, 1988. #1 for 1 week in Billboard Hot 100.

• Single: ‘Wild, Wild West’- The Escape Club
• Record Company- Atlantic
• Genre: Pop Rock
• Written by The Escape Club
• Time: 5:44
• B-side: ‘We Can Run’
• Album-Wild Wild West
• Grade: B
• Peaked at #1 1 week in Billboard Hot 100. Did not chart in the UK.

Some trivia to tell your friends- The Escape Club is the only British artists to have a #1 hit in the United States while never charting in the UK. While I couldn’t name another hit from The Escape Club they did squeeze out two more Top 40 hits in the United States- including a #8 in 1991- ‘I’ll Be There.’ … The Escape Club’s ‘Wild, Wild West’ has a striking similarity to King Elvis’s [Costello] ‘Pump It Up.’ If you are going to nick something do it from the best.