Baby I Lied

"Baby I Lied"
Single by Deborah Allen
from the album Cheat the Night
B-side "Time Is Taking You Away from Me"
Released 1983
Format 7" single
Genre Country
Length 4:09
Label RCA
Writer(s) Deborah Allen, Rafe VanHoy, Rory Michael Bourke
Producer Rafe VanHoy
Deborah Allen singles chronology
"Don't Stop Lovin' Me"
(1982)
"Baby I Lied"
(1983)
"I've Been Wrong Before"
(1984)

"Baby I Lied" is a single by American country music artist Deborah Allen. Released in 1983, it was the first single from the album Cheat the Night. The song reached number 4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. It was also her only hit on the Billboard Hot 100, where it went to number 26.[1]

In The Encyclopedia of Country Music, Mary A. Bufwack wrote that the song showed "Allen's country-pop style, marked by a wall of sound and soulful singing".[2]

Shannon Brown released a cover of the song in 2001, taking it to number 40 on the country charts. Her version was to have been included on her BNA Records album Untangle My Heart, which was never released.[3]

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Chart performance

Deborah Allen

Chart (1983) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles 4
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 26
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary 10

Shannon Brown

Chart (2001) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks 40

References

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 22. ISBN 0-89820-177-2. 
  2. ^ Kingsbury, Paul (2004). The Encyclopedia of Country Music. Oxford University Press. p. 9. ISBN 0195176081, 9780195176087. http://books.google.com/books?id=v4GQDYx_RnkC&pg=PA9&dq=%22baby+i+lied%22+%22Deborah+allen%22&hl=en&ei=Rl7HTomRA8bngQe1ws1V&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CEgQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22baby%20i%20lied%22%20%22Deborah%20allen%22&f=false. 
  3. ^ Whitburn, p. 66