Ok years ago rhino records had a CD series "Diy"which was a who’s who of 70s early 80s punk/new wave each CD was a different city I don’t know how many they made because Walmart just tossed them in a bargain bin for 5.99
I had new York Boston and la… It was mainly demos and indie record stuff and in a couple cases homemade garage recordings and a bootleg or two
My question is on the new York one There was a debbie Harry song that I can’t remember the title
of
The song was about a high school girl asking her crush out the chorus was her talking about finally getting up the courage to ask him out and then saying “you just had to laugh”
Anyone know the title of the song and also if rhino made more than those 3 discs ?
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While it does have the line “You just had to laugh.” It’s hardly a teen girl/boy crush song. The original title was “Sex Offender”! It’s about a prostitute and a cop who has arrested her.
While it starts off with …
“I saw you standing on the corner, you looked so big and fine
I really wanted to go out with you, so when you smiled
I laid my heart on the line”
The next line is …
“You read me my rights and then you said “Let’s go” and nothing more”
And then the whole trial thing and the “When I get out…” bits.
But it’s so Debbie to do a story like that in a light and ditzy way. If you only half-heard it once a long time ago you could totally think it was just a cute high school rebuff.
It was apparently originally High Schoolish - From wiki: Bassist Gary Valentine originally wrote the song about an 18-year-old boy being arrested for having sex with his younger girlfriend. Debbie Harry changed the lyrics so that the song was about a prostitute being attracted to the police officer that had arrested her. The track was co-produced by Richard Gottehrer who had worked with 1960s girl group The Angels, and the song is reminiscent of that era in its style.