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The Deborah Harry song catalog you find on this page was compiled by me, the webmaster, with the help of my personal record collection, booklets, biographies, setlists, ASCAP, the LoC (Library of Congress), articles and (live) bootlegs. It's my goal to create a page which features Deborah's complete musical body of work, no matter if Deborah was in any way musically involved herself or whether she contributed her own lyrics to a project. In order to keep up the standard of this page and to make it grow you can help by submitting song titles and/or information which are missing on this site. Every contribution is greatly appreciated. Official song lyrics were taken from booklets. I transcribed those songs myself where no official lyrics were available (with no guarantee for their accuracy). I apologize for possible errors and will gladly take corrections. I kindly ask you not to copy any of these lyrics from this page.
All song pages include links to the albums, singles and/or live albums which they were released on. Best Ofs and soundtracks were only listed if there is a special mix available on the record or the song title itself was previously unreleased.

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INFO

length (album version): 4:35-39 [depending on edition]
written by: Deborah Harry & Jimmy Destri
produced by: Mike Chapman
released: April 1980
highest Australian singles chart position: #12
highest Billboard hot 100 chart position:
#1
highest Billboard hot dance club play chart position: #1
highest Billboard pop chart position:
#39
highest UK singles chart position: #1

(sheet music)

 

FEATURED ON

Eat To The Beat [album] (1979)

At The BBC [CD + DVD] (2010)
Livid/Live [live album] (2000)
Remixed Remade Remodeled [remix album] (July 18, 1995)
Beautiful - The Remix Album [remix album] (1995)

Atomic '98 [single] (1998)
Heart Of Glass (remix) [single] (1995)
Atomic (remix) [single] (1994)
I Can See Clearly [single] (1993)
Denis (the '88 remix) [single] (1988)
Atomic [single] (1980)
Dreaming [single] (1979)

 

REMIXES & OTHER VERSIONS

■ Armand's Atomizer mix (9:00)
■ Armand's Short Circuit mix (remixed by Armand Van Helden) (6:00)
■ Beautiful Drum And Bass mix (7:43)
■ Boom mix (5:49)
■ Diddy's 12" mix (remixed by Diddy) (6:54)
■ Diddy Pushes The Button mix (6:06)
■ Diddy's remix edit (aka Diddy's edit) (4:10)
■ Explosive Ecstacy mix (5:50)
■ Kat People - Dana Intellectual mix (6:36)
■ New Disco mix (7:56)
■ original single version (aka original 1980 7" edit) (3:50)
■ Tall Paul remix (8:42)
■ Xenomania mix


MUSIC VIDEO

Atomic
directed by: David Mallet
produced by: Jon Roseman
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ATOMIC

Uh huh make me tonight tonight make it right uh huh make me tonight tonight tonight oh uh huh make it magnificent tonight right oh your hair is beautiful oh tonight atomic tonight make it magnificent tonight make me tonight your hair is beautiful oh tonight atomic atomic oh

COMMENTS

quoted from the book 'Deborah Harry: Platinum Blonde - A Portrait By Cathay Che' - 1999

question: 'Atomic?'
answer: Jimmy wrote that one, too. He was trying to do something like 'Heart Of Glass', and then somehow or another we gave it the spaghetti western treatment. Before that it was just lying there like a dead fox [cured fish]. The lyrics, well, a lot of time I would write while the band were just playing the song and trying to figure it out. I would just be scatting along with them, and I would start going, ' Oooooooh, your hair is beautiful.'

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