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Lots of Americans have heard the Tracey Ullman version of this song, but only our Brits have heard the original, from the late great great great great Kirsty MacColl. She was only 16 when she wrote this song.
I love the high pitched "baby!" at the end of the bridge. I read that Tracey Ullman could not reach that note, and the "baby!" on her version was only reached through studio trickery - which in 1983 meant she recorded a "baby!" at a lower pitch, separately, and they sped it up and stuck it into the middle there. That's what they had to do, before autotune.
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