Denis (song)

Denis (song)
"Denis"
Single by Blondie
from the album Plastic Letters
B-side "I'm on E" (US)
"Contact in Red Square"/"Kung-Fu Girls" (UK)
Released February 1978 (UK)
May 1978 (US)
Format 7" & 12" vinyl
Recorded 1977
Genre New Wave, Punk rock
Length 2:18
Label Chrysalis
Writer(s) Neil Levenson
Producer Richard Gottehrer
Certification Gold (UK), Gold (Netherlands)
Blondie singles chronology
"Rip Her to Shreds"
(1976)
"Denis"
(1978)
"(I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear"
(1978)
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"Denis" a.k.a. "Denee Denee" is a song by American New Wave band Blondie[1]. It featured on the band's second studio album, Plastic Letters (1978), and was the second UK single release by Blondie on Chrysalis records.

Song information

A gender-swapping cover of the 1963 hit "Denise" by Randy & the Rainbows[2], the song helped the band break into the international market. The original version of the song contained a verse with partly improvised lyrics in French by vocalist Debbie Harry. Although Chrysalis insisted that the band re-record the song with a grammatically correct French translation, both the band and producer Richard Gottehrer preferred the first take. Harry stood her ground on the matter, and the version containing the "pidgin French" lyrics was released. The second, re-recorded version had its debut as a bonus track on EMI UK's 1994 re-issue of Plastic Letters.

"Denis" was released in February 1978 and reached number two in the UK and Australia and broke into the top twenty in most European countries. In the UK, the song was kept off of the top spot by Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights". Just like "Rip Her to Shreds", the single was issued on both 7" and 12" formats in the UK, and both feature two B-sides, "Contact in Red Square" from Plastic Letters and "Kung-Fu Girls" from Blondie. "Denis" was the only single released in the US from Plastic Letters—with "I'm on E" as the B-side—but never charted. In 1988, a remixed version of the track was issued as the lead single for Blondie/Debbie Harry remix compilation Once More into the Bleach.

Track listing

UK 7" and 12" (CHS 2204)
  1. "Denis" (Levenson) – 2:18
  2. "Contact in Red Square" (Destri) – 2:01
  3. "Kung-Fu Girls" (Destri, Harry, Valentine) – 2:33
US 7" (CHS 2220)
  1. "Denis" (Levenson) – 2:18
  2. "I'm on E" (Harry, Stein) – 2:13
Denis '88 US 7"
  1. "Denis '88"
  2. "Rapture" (The Teddy Riley Remix)
Denis '88 US CD
  1. "Denis '88"
  2. "Rapture (The Teddy Riley Remix)
  3. "Heart Of Glass"
  4. "Atomic"
Chart (1978) Peak
position
Netherlands 1
UK 2
Germany 6
Austria 10
Australia 12
Sweden 19
New Zealand 30

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