Chart performance:
| Week | Position | Movement | Comments |
| 20-Oct-88 | 27 | New | |
| 27-Oct-88 | 14 | +13* | Biggest climber/Star rater |
| 03-Nov-88 | 9 | +5 | Star rater |
| 10-Nov-88 | 7 | +2 | |
| 17-Nov-88 | 4 | +3 | |
| 24-Nov-88 | 1 | +3 | Peak |
| 01-Dec-88 | 1 | 0 | Peak |
| 08-Dec-88 | 1 | 0 | Peak |
| 15-Dec-88 | 1 | 0 | Peak |
| 22-Dec-88 | 1 | 0 | Peak |
| 29-Dec-88 | 1 | 0 | Peak |
| 05-Jan-89 | 1 | 0 | Peak |
| 12-Jan-89 | 1 | 0 | Peak |
| 19-Jan-89 | 1 | 0 | Peak |
| 26-Jan-89 | 1 | 0 | Peak |
| 02-Feb-89 | 1 | 0 | Peak |
| 09-Feb-89 | 2 | -1 | |
| 16-Feb-89 | 3 | -1 | |
| 23-Feb-89** | 4 | -1 |
* This would be the biggest climb any hit by an Australian act would manage. It was the 6th and final time we saw a song by a solo female artist climb 13 or more (3 climbed 13 places, 2 climbed 14 places and Belinda Carlisle’s ‘Heaven Is A Place On Earth held the record with a 15 place climb)
** This would be the last chart ever broadcast
Written by: Gerry Goffin & Carole King
Produced by: Mike Stock, Matt Aitken & Pete Waterman
South African record label (unless otherwise stated): PWL
| Hit number for artist | 3 |
| Peak position | 1 |
| Weeks | 19 |
| Biggest climber awards | 1 |
| Star rater climbs | 2 |
| Biggest faller awards | 0 |
| Top 20 points | 324 |
| Overall Top 20 points ranking | =44 |
| Top 20 points ranking for the artist | 2 |
| Top 30 Points | 508 |
| Overall Top 30 points ranking | 90 |
| Top 30 points ranking for the artist | 2 |
Annual ranking:
| 1988 | 37 |
| 1989 | 1 |
Other chart success:
| Australia | 1 |
| Austria | 3 |
| Belgium | 3 |
| Canada | 5 |
| Denmark | 5 |
| Finland | 1 |
| France | 5 |
| Germany | 3 |
| Iceland | 2 |
| Ireland | 1 |
| Japan | 68 |
| Netherlands | 9 |
| New Zealand | 8 |
| Norway | 8 |
| Portugal | 2 |
| Switzerland | 2 |
| UK | 2 |
| US | 3 |
| Zimbabwe | 5 |
SA Radio charts:
| Capital 604 | 1 |
| Radio 5 | 8 |
| Radio 702 | 1 |
The song was a cover of a 1962 hit for Little Eva. That version would top the US charts and peak at 2 in the UK. Kylie Minogue first performed the song live at an Australian Rules Football charity event where the cast of the soap opera ‘Neighbours’ (in which she starred) appeared. She then signed to Mushroom records to release the song and producer Mike Duffy took the vocal performance and added a hi-NRG pop backing track. That version would go to the top of the Aussie charts. Duffy was on loan to Mushroom records from Pete Waterman’s PWL label and the success of the track in Australia led to Kylie signing to PWL in the UK and releasing ‘I Should Be So Lucky’ and ‘Got To Be Certain’ to huge success. It was then that Stock, Aitken and Waterman re-recorded ‘The Loco-Motion’ with Kylie and it became a global success.
Video:
Artist link: Kylie Minogue
SA Singles Charts 