I'm So Excited

Infobox Single
Name = I'm So Excited


Artist = Pointer Sisters
from Album = So Excited! and Break Out
Released = 1982
Format = CD Single
Genre = Disco
Length = 4:25
Label = RCA Records
Writer = Anita Pointer, June Pointer, Ruth Pointer, Trevor Lawrence
Last single = "American Music"
(1982)
This single = "I'm So Excited"
(1982)
Next single = "I Need You"
(1983)"I'm So Excited" is a song written and recorded by the Pointer Sisters. The song appeared originally on their 1982 album "So Excited!", while a remixed version appeared on the 1984 rerelease of their 1983 album "Break Out". The song was chosen as one of the Songs of the Century by RIAA.

Upon its first release in 1982 (through inclusion in the movie "Summer Lovers,") it peaked at #30 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #46 on the Billboard Black Singles chart in the U.S. However, two years later, when the Pointers were experiencing massive success with "Break Out", the song was added to that album and re-released. It subsequently reached #9.

The song was also included in the movies 'National Lampoon's Vacation"(1983), "Hot Shots! Part Deux" (1993), and "The Nutty Professor".

In 2004, the post-punk band Le Tigre covered this song on their third album This Island.
It was also covered by Finnish Show Rock band called Roctum on their debut single "Sandwich" in 2005.

It was performed in an episode of "Saved by the Bell".The single is also shown on a commercial by Bell Canada, where one of its beavers was secretly dancing to the beat of the song while failing to notice the other coming in the room.

In the UK, it was famously used in the mid 80s and 1990s for various adverts for Cadbury's Crunchie, along with the popular tagline, "Get The Friday Feeling".

In the "Drake and Josh" episode "The Drake and Josh Inn", it was performed by Yvette Nicole Brown as Helen Dubuois.

In one episode of Friends, Monica sings the first few lines of the song while the audience cheers at the visibility of her bra. She requests that the pianist "make it bouncy."

The song was selected as one of the "Songs of the Century" by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It was ranked #264 out of 365 songs.

Trivia

* The 1983 version of the song was the 13th of 16 Top 40 hits for Pointer Sisters.
* This song was used by defunct stores Robinsons-May and Meier & Frank, with the slogan "Always Something Exciting"
* For Showtime's "Excitement" campaign for the mid-80s, bits of the song are heard.

Credits

*Lead vocals by Anita Pointer
*Background vocals by Ruth Pointer and June Pointer

Chart

{| class="wikitable"!align="left"|Chart (1982)!align="center"|Peak
position
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align="left"|U.S. Billboard Hot 100
align="center"|30
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align="left"|U.S. R&B Chart
align="center"|46
-
align="left"|U.S. Dance Chart
align="center"|28
-
align="left"|Australia ARIA chart
align="center"|9