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== Rick Astley version == {{Infobox song | name = Ain't Too Proud to Beg | cover = | type = single | artist = [[Rick Astley]] | album = [[Hold Me in Your Arms (album)|Hold Me in Your Arms]] | released = {{start date|1989|08|07}} | genre = | length = 4:19 | label = [[RCA Records|RCA]] | writer = * Norman Whitfield<ref name="All"/> * Eddie Holland<ref name="All"/> | producer = Stock Aitken Waterman | prev_title = [[Giving Up on Love]] | prev_year = 1989 | next_title = [[Cry for Help]] | next_year = 1991 | misc = {{External music video|header=Official audio|{{YouTube|rsBXXG-M2TcE|"Ain't Too Proud to Beg"}}}} }} English singer-songwriter [[Rick Astley]] covered the song for his 1988 album ''[[Hold Me in Your Arms (album)|Hold Me in Your Arms]]''. Originally recorded in 1986, the track was re-recorded for his new album due to a fire at the [[Pete Waterman Entertainment|PWL studios]] destroying the original master.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rickastley.co.uk/html/discography/singles/atptb.htm|title=Rick Astley's official website|website=Rick Astley|access-date=October 21, 2023|archive-date=November 14, 2001|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011114004516/http://www.rickastley.co.uk/html/discography/singles/atptb.htm|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref> The song was released as a single in the US and Japan in the summer of 1989. This was Astley's last single with producers [[Stock Aitken Waterman]]. On New Year's Eve 2019, Astley performed the song with [[YolanDa Brown]] on the BBC's ''[[Jools' Annual Hootenanny]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000cs15|title=BBC Two - Jools' Annual Hootenanny, 2019/20|website=BBC}}</ref> {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |+Weekly chart performance for "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" !scope="col"|Chart (1989) !scope="col"|Peak<br />position |- {{single chart|Billboardhot100|89|artist=Rick Astley|rowheader=true|access-date=March 19, 2024}} |- {{single chart|Billboardadultcontemporary|16|artist=Rick Astley|rowheader=true|access-date=March 19, 2024}} |}
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