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"Sunday Girl" is a song recorded by the American new wave band Blondie, from the band's 1978 album Parallel Lines. Written by guitarist Chris Stein , the song was inspired by Debbie Harry 's cat, who was named Sunday Man—the cat had recently run away, inspiring the song's "plaintive" nature.
Parallel Lines is the third studio album by American rock band Blondie, released on September 8, 1978, [2] by Chrysalis Records.An instant critical and commercial success, the album reached No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart in February 1979 and proved to be the band's commercial breakthrough in the United States, where it reached No. 6 on the Billboard 200 in April 1979.
Blondie's next single in the US was a more aggressive rock song, "One Way or Another" (US number 24), [4] though in the UK, an alternate single choice, "Sunday Girl", became a number one hit. [26] Parallel Lines has been ranked number 140 on Rolling Stone's list of 500 greatest albums of all time. [34]
"One Way or Another" is a song by American new wave band Blondie from their 1978 album Parallel Lines. Lyrically, the song was inspired by Blondie frontwoman Deborah Harry's experience with a stalker in the early 1970s, an incident which forced her to move away from New Jersey.
Like one of Blondie's subsequent singles, "Sunday Girl", "Hanging on the Telephone" employs a double backbeat rhythm in its drumming pattern, meaning the "off" beats alternate between a quarter note and two eighth notes.
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The song is widely regarded as one of Blondie's best; in 2017, Billboard ranked the song number two on their list of the 10 greatest Blondie songs, [16] and in 2021, The Guardian ranked the song number seven on their list of the 20 greatest Blondie songs. [17] Blondie re-recorded the song for their 2014 compilation album Greatest Hits Deluxe Redux.
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