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"All You Pretty Girls" is a song written by Andy Partridge of the English rock band XTC, released on their 1984 album The Big Express. It peaked at number 55 on the UK Singles Chart, and its music video cost £33,000 to make.[1] Partridge remembers that song came about while he was "dicking around, playing some Hendrix. ... I was just playing this little two-note, quasi-Hendrix thing, and I liked the inherent melody in it."[2]

"All You Pretty Girls"
Single by XTC
from the album The Big Express
Released	3 September 1984 (1984-09-03)
Recorded	1984
Length	3:56
Label	Virgin
Songwriter(s)	Andy Partridge
Producer(s)	David Lord, XTC
XTC singles chronology
"Thanks for Christmas" (1983) "All You Pretty Girls" (1984) "This World Over" (1984)
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With the exception of the opening, all the drum sounds in the recording were made with a LinnDrum. The reed organ sound comes from a Prophet-5, while the choir sounds were a Mellotron sample played out of a speaker inside a fire bucket.[2]

Personnel

XTC

• Dave Gregory – keyboards[2]
• Colin Moulding
• Andy Partridge

Additional personnel

• Pete Phipps – drums[2]

Charts

Chart (1984)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[3]	76
UK Singles (OCC)[4]	55

References

External links

• "All You Pretty Girls" on Chalkhills

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