What Can I Do
Codes & Release Dates
Year of first release: 1998
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| # | Title | Lyrics | Listen |
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| 1. | What Can I Do (LP version) (4:18) |  |
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| 2. | Little Wing (LP version) (5:07) | |
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| 3. | No Good For Me (live) (3:54) | |
Video
Director: Nigel Dick
This video was shot in New Zealand on February 26th, 1998 on very short notice. The Corrs were only done with their tour in the land of the Maori when the record company decided to release "What Can I Do", therefore a video had to be filmed rather quickly.
The location was Manukau Peninsula which is situated 80 km (~50 miles) South-West of Auckland on the West Coast on the North Island of New Zealand. The green meadows were in some way resembling their Irish home country, and even the weather became Irish for a little while: it started to rain during the shooting!
Director Nigel Dick (who shot Oasis' video for "Wonderwall") was flown in especially for the video and had less than a day to prepare it. The casual theme with jeans and t-shirts was suggested by East West Spain and welcomed by the Corrs who wanted this video to look very different from the rather stylish "Only When I Sleep". Andrea said that they left the video completely in the hands of the director, because according to her, he's the one to blame!
Says Dick: "My favourite memory is the image of Andrea, Sharon and Caroline all crouched down in the middle of the road, eating bowls of cereal at 5AM, waiting for the dawn. As it got light the drizzle arrived, but, with the band scheduled to fly home that evening, we kept on shooting."
Trivia
"What Can I Do" was never meant to be single until the band performed it on German TV (on a then popular show called "Geld oder Liebe"), which lifted "Talk On Corners" in the charts at once.
In 1999, there was a commercial for the bank Lloyds TSB which featured "What Can I Do" (they were sponsoring the Corrs' tour). Andrea re-wrote the lyrics so that they made more sense in that special context:
Original: What Can I Do to make you love me?
Advert: What can we do to make it happen?
Original: What Can I Do to make you care?
Advert: What can we do to make it right?
Original: What Can I Do to make you feel this?
Advert: What can we do to make you feel good?
Original: What Can I Do to get you there?
Advert: How can we help you with your life?
(source: Corrsonline.com)
There was even a single release from Lloyds:
The CD is the same as the Royal Albert Hall edition of "What Can I Do" just with a different cover - it is, not surprisingly, very rare.
"What Can I Do" didn't do so well on the UK single charts: highest position was #53.