Kiss Them for Me

Kiss Them for Me was released on 13 May 1991 as the first single from Superstition, produced by Stephen Hague. It was a more straightforward pop-oriented sound than the band's earlier records. The lyrics are an ode to the actress Jayne Mansfield, referring to her catchword divoon, her heart-shaped swimming pool and the 1967 car crash that killed her. Twenty-year-old tabla player Talvin Singh took part in the sessions and sang during the bridge. The drum beat was taken from a Roland TR-909 pattern used earlier on Schoolly D's P.S.K. What Does It Mean?

It reached number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100, the band's biggest US hit, and spent five weeks at number one on the Modern Rock Tracks chart in summer 1991. In the UK it reached number 32. Melody Maker called it sublime. Diane Birch, School of Seven Bells and Anna Nalick have covered it.