I Wanna Be a Kennedy

"I Wanna Be a Kennedy"
Single by U96
from the album Das Boot
B-side	"220 BPM" "No Control" "Is Patsy a Virgin?" Remix
Released	February 1992
Length	5:30 (album version/U.S. mix) 3:22 (7")
Label	Polydor
Songwriter(s)	Bela Lagonda Harry Castioni Jeff Wycombe Alex Christensen
Producer(s)	Alex Christensen Matiz
U96 singles chronology
"Das Boot" (1992) "I Wanna Be a Kennedy" (1992) "Love Sees No Colour" (1993)
Music video
"I Wanna be a Kennedy" on YouTube

"I Wanna Be a Kennedy" is a song recorded by German dance music project U96, released as the second single from their debut album, Das Boot . Musically, the song is very similar to the 1980 song "Fade to Grey" by British new wave band Visage, in which its similarity can be clearly heard in the main synthesizer riff. It was successful in Germany, Switzerland and Austria where it was a top ten hit.

Critical reception

British magazine Music Week gave the song four out of five, stating that U96 "could turn out to be more than one-hit-wonders thanks to I Wanna Be A Kennedy, a thumping rave track based on Visage's Fade To Grey. It all sounds a bit dated, but then so did Das Boot." ^[1]

Track listings

CD single, 12" maxi "I Wanna Be a Kennedy" (U.S. mix) — 5:25 "I Wanna Be a Kennedy" (Patsy-mix) — 5:25 "220 BPM" — 3:40 12" maxi, CD single - Remixes "I Wanna Be a Kennedy" (Bio-Hazard mix) — 6:00 "I Wanna Be a Kennedy" (Digi-Bone mix) — 5:25 "No Control" — 4:30 12" maxi - UK "I Wanna Be a Kennedy" (U.S. mix edit) "I Wanna Be a Kennedy" (Patsy mix) "I Wanna Be a Kennedy" (Bio-Hazard mix) "I Wanna Be a Kennedy" (Digi-Bone mix)

12" maxi - Promo, Germany "I Wanna Be a Kennedy" "I Wanna Be A Kennedy" (untitled mix) "Is Patsy a Virgin?" CD single - UK "I Wanna Be a Kennedy" (7") — 3:22 "I Wanna Be a Kennedy" (U.S. mix) — 5:33 "I Wanna Be a Kennedy" (Patsy mix) — 5:25 "I Wanna Be a Kennedy" (Bio-Hazard mix) — 6:01 "I Wanna Be a Kennedy" (Digi-Bone mix) — 5:25 Cassette, double length - UK "I Wanna Be a Kennedy" (7") "I Wanna Be a Kennedy" (Bio-Hazard edit)

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (1992) Peak position Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) [2] 6 Finland (Suomen virallinen lista) [3] 18 France (SNEP) [4] with "Das Boot" 9 Germany (GfK) [5] 4 Netherlands (Dutch Top 40) [6] 36 Netherlands (Single Top 100) [7] 40 Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) [8] 32 Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) [9] 3

Year-end charts Chart (1992) Position Germany (Media Control) [10] 48 Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) [11] 40

References

1. "Dance" (PDF). Music Week . 31 October 1992. p. 9. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
2. "U 96 – I Wanna Be a Kennedy" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40. Retrieved 5 May 2025.
3. Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin - levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Tammi. ISBN   9789511210535.
4. "U 96 – Das Boot . Kennedy" (in French). Le classement de singles. Retrieved 5 May 2025.
5. "U 96 – I Wanna Be a Kennedy" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved 5 May 2025.
6. "Nederlandse Top 40 – U96" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
7. "U 96 – I Wanna Be a Kennedy" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 5 May 2025.
8. "U 96 – I Wanna Be a Kennedy". Singles Top 100. Retrieved 5 May 2025.
9. "U 96 – I Wanna Be a Kennedy". Swiss Singles Chart. Retrieved 5 May 2025.
10. "Top 100 Single–Jahrescharts 1992" (in German). GfK Entertainment . Retrieved 7 March 2020.
11. "Schweizer Jahreshitparade 1992" (in German). Retrieved 5 May 2025.