Baby I Lied
1983 single by Deborah Allen
"Baby I Lied" is a song recorded by American country music artist Deborah Allen. It was released in August 1983 as 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. The song was written by Allen, Rafe Van Hoy and Rory Bourke.
The B-side of the single, "Time is Taking You Away from Me" was written by Allen and Van Hoy, and is a track that has not appeared on any subsequent albums.
Critical reception
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".
Chart performance
Shannon Brown version
Shannon Brown released a cover of "Baby I Lied", releasing it on August 20, 2001, as her debut single for BNA Records, following getting dropped by Arista Nashville; at the time, Brown was the only female artist signed with the label. Her version was supposed to be the lead single to her second planned debut album, this one titled Untangle My Heart, which was planned for a January 2002 release. The album was never released and Brown was dropped by BNA following the album's second single "Untangle My Heart".
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