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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.
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INFO

originally by The Paragons

length (album version): 4:38-41 [depending on edition]
written by: Kenneth John Holt, Evans & Barrett
produced by: Mike Chapman
percussion: Ollie Brown, Emil Richards & Alex Acuña
string & horn arrangements: Jimmy Haskell
released: October 1980
highest Billboard adult contemporary chart position:#3
highest Australian singles chart position:
#4
highest Austrian chart position:
#6
highest Billboard hot 100 chart position:
#1
highest Billboard hot dance club play chart position: #1
highest Billboard pop chart position: #1
highest Dutch chart position: #4
highest Irish chart position:
#2
highest Norwegian chart position:
#7
highest Swedish chart position: #19
highest UK singles chart position:
#1

(sheet music)

 

FEATURED ON

Autoamerican [album] (1980)

The Curse Of Blondie [album] (2003)
The Jazz Passengers - Individually Twisted [album] (1997)
Live In Toronto [live album] (2006)
Live By Request [live album] (2004)
Livid/Live [live album] (2000)
Remixed Remade Remodeled [remix album] (July 18, 1995)
Beautiful - The Remix Album [remix album] (1995)
Once More Into The Bleach [remix album] (1988)

Rapture [single] (1980)
The Tide Is High [single] (1980)
Heart Of Glass [single] (1978)

 

REMIXES & OTHER VERSIONS

■ Coldcut remix (5:35)
■ Sand Dollar mix (remixed by Pete Arden and Vinny Vero) (7:17)

■ live version with Matt Morrish (performed in Saratoga, CA on October 7, 2011) - unreleased


MUSIC VIDEO

The Tide Is High
directed by: Hart Perry
produced by: Holographic Film Co.
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THE TIDE IS HIGH

The tide is high but I'm holding on I'm gonna be your number one

Every girl wants you to be her man but I'll wait my dear 'till it's my turn I'm not the kinda girl who gives up just like that no no oh

The tide is high but I'm holding on I'm gonna be your number one number one number one

It's not the things you do that tease and hurt me bad but it's the way you do the things you do to me I'm not the kinda girl no no no you're not no you're not like that no no no no

The tide is high but I'm holding on I'm gonna be your number one number one number one

The tide is high but I'm holding on tide is high but I'm holding on

Ah ha ahh ya ya ya ah ha ooh ooh hoo hoo yoo hoo tide is high tide is high holding on holding on

COMMENTS

source: wikipedia.org

'The Tide Is High' is a 1967 song written by John Holt and performed by The Paragons with John Holt as lead singer.

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