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INFO

Debbie Harry & Iggy Pop

length: 3:28
written by: Cole Porter
produced by: Chris Stein & Steve Lillywhite
recorded at: Red Night Studios, New York by Chris Stein
additional recording at: Townhouse Studios, London
engineer: Mark Wallis
assisted by: Chris Bandy
vocals: Deborah Harry & Iggy Pop
guitar: Chris Stein
synthesizer: Chris Stein
drums: Mel Gaynor
bass guitar: Guy Pratt

FEATURED ON

Well, Did You Evah! (Deborah Harry & Iggy Pop) [single] (1990)

Red, Hot + Blue [compilation] (1990)

REMIXES & OTHER VERSIONS

[no official remixes available]

MUSIC VIDEO

Well, Did You Evah! (Deborah Harry & Iggy Pop)
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WELL, DID YOU EVAH!

Debbie: I have heard, among this clan, you are called the forgotten man
Iggy: Is that what they're saying? Well, did you evah!
both: What a swell party this is

Iggy: And have you heard the story of a boy, a girl, unrequited love?
Debbie: Sounds like pure soap opera I may cry
Iggy: Aw
both: What a swell party this is

Iggy: What frails
Debbie: What cocks
Iggy: What broads
Debbie: What jocks
Iggy: What furs, they're beautiful
Debbie: Why, I've never seen such
both: Yuppity
Debbie: Neither did I
Iggy: It's all just too
both: swellegant

Debbie: This French champagne
Iggy: Domestic
Debbie: So good for the brain
Iggy: That's what I was gonna say
Debbie: Well, you know you're a brilliant fellow
Iggy: Thank you, I am
Debbie: Hehe, drink up Jim

Iggy: So, have you ever been out to L.A. lately
Debbie: Well no, not recently
Iggy: Well, I went there and had a rent-a-car and all
Debbie: Oh, really
Iggy: Yeah and I got invited to Pia's house. Pia Zadora's house
Debbie: Really, oh
Iggy: Yeah
Debbie: Was it nice?
Iggy: Well, I didn't, I didn't go
Debbie: Oh, hehe
Iggy: It woulda been swell though
Debbie: Shoulda gone
Iggy: It woulda been elegant
Debbie: Elegant. Oh wait, look, look who's coming in now, can you believe it?
Iggy: I hear they dismantled Pickfair
Debbie: They did
Iggy: It wasn't elegant enough, hehe
Debbie: Yeah, probably full of termites
Iggy: Yeah

both: It's great, it's grand
Wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wonderland
la la la la la la la la la la la la la.
We sing so rare like old Camembert

Iggy: Have you heard the dying star - she got bit in the Astar bar
Debbie: Sauced again, well, did you evah
both: What a swell party this is

Have you heard?
It's in the stars
Next July we collide with Mars
Well did you evah

What a swell party
What a swell party
What a swellegant elegant (sm) party

Debbie: Smarty
Iggy: Party, yeah
Debbie: A smarty party?
Iggy: I am, a smarty. I'm pretty smart
Debbie: You are a smarty for coming to this party
Iggy: Yeah, that's right
Debbie: Well piss off
Iggy: Hehehe, that's good, I like that

COMMENTS

source: wikipedia.org

"'Well, Did You Evah!' is a song written by Cole Porter for his 1939 musical 'Du Barry Was a Lady', where it was introduced by Betty Grable and Charles Walters
It was also performed in the 1956 film High Society by Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra. [...]
Well, Did You Evah! is a duet single by Deborah Harry and Iggy Pop originally recorded for benefit project Red Hot + Blue which was created to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and safe sex. The twenty track Red Hot + Blue album which was released in September 1990 consisted of some of the world's biggest stars in rock and pop such as U2, Tom Waits, Annie Lennox, David Byrne, Simply Red and k. d. lang covering songs by Cole Porter.
Deborah Harry and Iggy Pop's radical rock interpretation of the old Porter standard was released as a single in the UK and reached number forty-two on the charts in February 1991. The single also was a modest hit in Ireland peaking at number twenty-nine. The duet was also included on the UK hits compilation The Complete Picture: The Very Best of Deborah Harry and Blondie issued a month later and in 1999 also on EMI's Most of All - The Best of Deborah Harry."