Don't Talk to Strangers (Rick Springfield song)
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| "Don't Talk to Strangers" | ||||
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| Single by Rick Springfield | ||||
| from the album Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet | ||||
| B-side | "Tonight" | |||
| Released | March 1982 | |||
| Genre | Power pop[1][2] | |||
| Length | 2:59 | |||
| Label | RCA | |||
| Songwriter | Rick Springfield | |||
| Producer | Keith Olsen | |||
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"Don't Talk to Strangers" is a song written and performed by Australian musician Rick Springfield. It was released as a single in 1982, from the album Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet. The song reached number two on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks, making it his second biggest hit in the US after the number-one hit, "Jessie's Girl". It was kept off the top spot by "Ebony and Ivory" by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder. Springfield was nominated for Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance with the song in 1983.
The music was based on an earlier Springfield song titled "Spanish Eyes", and released on the Sound City recordings from 1978. The song lyrics were changed and were written to Springfield's then-girlfriend Barbara Porter (later his wife), whom he was worried was involved with other people while they were apart. Springfield recalled, "Back then, I was scared that she was screwing around because I was doing the same thing."[3]
