Pretty Baby

Album: Parallel Lines (1978)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song is an ode to Brooke Shields' scandalous child character in the 1978 movie Pretty Baby, which was directed by Louis Malle. The film took its title from a different song called "Pretty Baby," which is a Tin Pan Alley standard that has been recorded by Tony Jackson, Al Jolson, Doris Day and Dean Martin. >>>
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    Vince - Tucson, AZ

Comments: 2

  • Les from Riverstone Nsw AustraliaI love Blondie and I always have. She is Rock & Roll
  • Fred from Laurel, MdNever heard this tune, but I see there's an allusion in it to the 1967 psychedelic-rock hit, "Incense and Peppermints" by the Strawberry Alarm Clock.

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