Song Lyric Sunday: Heart of Glass





Time again for Song Lyric Sunday! 


The Idea was formed by Helen @ This Thing Called Life One Word At A Time. She has presented us with the word prompt of GLASS for this week.


I’m just going to go with one of the obvious ones this week.  A song from my teen years…

Wikipedia tells us this about the song:

"Heart of Glass" is a song by the American new wave band Blondie, written by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. Featured on the band's third studio album, Parallel Lines (1978), it was released as the album's third single in January 1979 and reached number one on the charts in several countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom.

In December 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the song number 255 on its list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. It was ranked at number 259 when the list was updated in April 2010. Slant Magazine placed it at number 42 on their list of the greatest dance songs of all time and Pitchfork named it the 18th best song of the 1970s.

In 2015, "Heart of Glass" ranked at number 56 in the UK's official list of biggest selling singles of all-time with sales of 1.3 million copies.


Debbie Harry and Chris Stein wrote an early version of "Heart of Glass", called "Once I Had a Love", in 1974–75. This earlier version was initially recorded as a demo in 1975. The song had a slower, funkier sound with a basic disco beat. For this reason the band referred to it as "The Disco Song". This original version was inspired by The Hues Corporation's hit disco song "Rock the Boat" (1974). The song was re-recorded in a second demo with the same title in 1978, when the song was made a bit more pop-oriented. Harry said that "'Heart of Glass' was one of the first songs Blondie wrote, but it was years before we recorded it properly. We'd tried it as a ballad, as reggae, but it never quite worked", and that "the lyrics weren't about anyone. They were just a plaintive moan about lost love."  It was only when the band met with producer Mike Chapman to start work on Parallel Lines that Harry recalled Chapman "asked us to play all the songs we had. At the end, he said: 'Have you got anything else?' We sheepishly said: 'Well, there is this old one.' He liked it – he thought it was fascinating and started to pull it into focus."






The rules for playing along:

  • Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it fits the theme or not
  • Please try to include the songwriter(s) – it’s a good idea to give credit where credit is due and it’s honestly just a simple Google search
  • Make sure you also credit the singer/band and provide a link to where you found the lyrics
  • Link to the YouTube video, or pull it into your post so others can listen to the song
  • Ping back to this post or my own Song Lyric Sunday post
  • Read at least one other person’s blog so we can all share new and fantastic music and create amazing new blogging friends in the process


Join in the fun! If not this week, why not next?  What Glass song would you choose?










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    1. LOL

      It's a fun one! Now if only I can come up with a post for tomorrow... It's so not like me to be last second like this.

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  2. Great song choice! Loved the background info, as well.

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    1. Didn't realize I made a Blogger account years ago! Same thing I did with Word Press. Never used either one, though, until this year. My active blog is at magnoliajem.com if you're interested.

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    2. Thanks!

      I'll be sure to stop in and check you out. I've got some big musical plans for this blog coming up soon.

      Thanks for stopping by!

      ~Mary

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  3. I always liked this song! Thanks for posting it today! :)

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    1. Thanks!

      I know it was an easy song choice, but with the memories that I have with it, I couldn't pass it up.

      ~Mary

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  4. Love this song - good choice! Robyn

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  5. When I mentioned in my post that this was the easy way, I wasn't meaning that for anyone else, just for me. I totally love this song. I was really tempted to use it but decided I needed to challenge myself a little. When my nephews were little they used to sing this as Heart Attacks! I met Debbie Harry once a long time ago when she was doing a guest arc on a TV show that was being filmed very close to my home. A friend and I went to our favourite restaurant and she was there with several cast and crew members. There was no-one else in the restaurant so she came over and said hi. Great moment!

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    1. Those are the best memories to have!

      This was absolutely the easy way for me, as it was the very first song that popped into my head. I didn't even think about other songs such as Billy Joel's Glass Houses, etc until long after I had scheduled the post. I usually try to challenge myself and come up with something that I think would be unique, but I just didn't have the energy to put into it this time.

      ~Mary

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  6. This is such a fun song. It's also a great pick for this week. Thanks so much for sharing and for playing along!

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    1. Thanks!

      Hopefully we'll be able to figure out why my pingback isn't showing up. I've been playing along for almost 2 months and this is the first I've had more than one or two comments. I was almost ready to give up and strike out on my own.

      ~Mary

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