Steal Away

Dupree and Rick Chudacoff wrote it, and Peter Bunetta and Chudacoff produced it in 1979. It began in Chudacoff's West Hollywood house, with a Wurlitzer piano: Chudacoff played ideas and Dupree sang melodies and developed the words. Dupree says it is not about anyone specific, a very simple rhyme song. The album version runs 3:34 and the single 3:21. It reached 6 on the Hot 100, with 23 weeks on the chart and seven in the top ten, 5 on adult contemporary, 14 in Canada, 24 in Australia and 26 in the 1980 year-end US chart. The video was made before MTV existed, and Dupree called the lip-syncing and label-required scripts ridiculous.