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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): 3:16
written by: Deborah Harry & Chris Stein
Copyright © 1978 Rare Blue Music, Inc./Monster Island Music (ASCAP)

 

FEATURED ON

Parallel Lines [album] (1978)

At The BBC [CD + DVD] (2010)

Heart Of Glass [single] (1979)

 

REMIXES & OTHER VERSIONS

[no official remixes available]

PRETTY BABY

Stars live in the evening but the very young need the sun pretty baby you look so heavenly a neo nebula from under the sun I was forming some say I had my chance the boys were falling like an avalanche

Ya ya baby La Dolce Vita is a magic dance no one was listening pretty baby petite ingenue teenage starlet I fell in love with you

You, you with the comb you look ok in every way ah I should have known you'd look at me and look away

Pretty baby you look so heavenly a neo nebula from under the sun eyes that tell me incense and peppermints your looks are larger than life long live innocence

COMMENTS

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

question: How about 'Pretty Baby?'
answer: That one was about little Brookie [child model turned actress Brooke Shields], and maybe a little bit about myself at the time. We went to see that movie, Pretty Baby, and Brooke was so outstanding and touching in it. Then we did a photo shoot together with Michael Mackenzie, and she turned out to be such a real person and so sweet. So we wanted to write a song about her.

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