Recorded for £600 in Edinburgh, it was released in March 1987 and was their first hit, peaking at No.

The following year, the song reached the top 20 in Belgium and the Netherlands, while in the United States, "Wishing I Was Lucky" became the group's first of two songs to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 58.

Tommy Cunningham later said of the song: "I was in a queue in a chip shop in Glasgow when it came on Radio Clyde.

The video in the UK features the band watching TV.

The video ends with the band (performing the song throughout the video) getting trapped before the TV shuts off abruptly ending the song.