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I Beg Your Pardon

"I Beg Your Pardon"
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Single by Kon Kan
from the album Move to Move
Released 1988 (Canada)
20 February 1989 (UK)
Format 7", 12"
Genre Synthpop, new wave
Length 3:59
Label Atlantic
Writer(s) Barry Harris, Joe South
Producer(s) Tom Gerencser
Kon Kan singles chronology
"I Beg Your Pardon"
(1988)
"Harry Houdini"
(1988)

"I Beg Your Pardon" (also titled as "I Beg Your Pardon [I Never Promised You a Rose Garden]") is a song by Canadian synthpop band Kon Kan, released as the first single from their 1988 debut album Move to Move.

The song contains various samples of other songs, including Lynn Anderson's 1970 hit "Rose Garden", as well as samples of GQ's "Disco Nights (Rock-Freak)" and Silver Convention's "Get Up and Boogie". Recreated samples of Spagna's "Call Me" and the opening bars of the theme from the film The Magnificent Seven are also present in the song.

The song was a hit, reaching the top twenty in a number of countries including the UK, where it peaked at #5.


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