"Run Baby Run" is a song by French singer Amanda Lear

Amanda Lear

Amanda Lear is a French singer, lyricist, composer, painter, TV presenter, actress and novelist....

 released in 1978 by Ariola Records

Ariola Records

Ariola Records is a German record label. As of the late 1980s, it was a subsidiary label of BMG which in turn has since become a part of the international media conglomerate Sony Music Entertainment...

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Song information

"Run Baby Run" was the fourth part of the suite

Suite

In music, a suite is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral pieces normally performed in a concert setting rather than as accompaniment; they may be extracts from an opera, ballet , or incidental music to a play or film , or they may be entirely original movements .In the...

 included on the Sweet Revenge

Sweet Revenge (Amanda Lear album)

Sweet Revenge is the second studio album by French singer Amanda Lear, released in February, 1978 by West German label Ariola-Eurodisc. The album contained European hit singles "Follow Me", "Enigma ", "Gold" and "Run Baby Run"...

album, telling a story about a girl being tempted by a Devil. It was released as the second single from Sweet Revenge. The B-side, depending on territory, was either "Follow Me

Follow Me (Amanda Lear song)

"Follow Me" - a song by French singer Amanda Lear released in 1978 by Ariola Records.- Song information :"Follow Me" was released as the first single from Amanda's second album, Sweet Revenge, in the spring of 1978. The B-side of the single was "Mother, Look What They've Done to Me" in most of the...

", or its reprise

Reprise

Reprise is a fundamental device in the history of art. In literature, a reprise consists of the rewriting of another work; in music, a reprise is the repetition or reiteration of the opening material later in a composition as occurs in the recapitulation of sonata form, though—originally in the...

 version or "The Stud", all from Sweet Revenge. The song was a typical Lear-Monn collaboration, with Amanda Lear

Amanda Lear

Amanda Lear is a French singer, lyricist, composer, painter, TV presenter, actress and novelist....

 providing the lyrics and Anthony Monn

Anthony Monn

Anthony Monn a.k.a. Tony Monn is a German singer, composer, and record producer.Monn started his career as a singer in the German schlager genre in the early 1970s...

 composing the music and producing the track. Arrangement is credited to German-based producers Charly Ricanek and Rainer Pietsch.

The song didn't chart, but remains one of Amanda Lear's most recognizable and popular tunes to date.

Music video

A music video was produced as a part of Italian TV show Stryx

Stryx

- Description :Stryx thematically referred to Hell, devils and underworld. The scenography featured elements resembling Middle Ages-like gloomy castles and caves....

. It pictures Amanda dancing in a leopard

Leopard

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-dotted dress among other Stryx cast members rolling on the floor. It was directed by Enzo Trapani.

Track listing

• Portugese 7" Single

A. "Run Baby Run" - 2:58

B. "Follow Me" - 3:55

• Belgian 7" Single

A. "Run Baby Run" - 2:58

B. "Follow Me Part Two" - 3:40

• South African 7" Single

A. "Run Baby Run" - 3:45

B. "The Stud" - 4:02

• 12" Single

A. "Run Baby Run" - 3:40

B. "Follow Me (Reprise)" - 3:40