Pretty Baby (Vanessa Carlton song)

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"Pretty Baby"
Pretty Baby Single.jpg
Single by Vanessa Carlton
from the album Be Not Nobody
B-side "Swindler"
ReleasedDecember 2, 2002 (2002-12-02)
Length
  • 3:55 (album version)
  • 4:08 (single version)
Label A&M
Songwriter(s) Vanessa Carlton
Producer(s) Ron Fair
Vanessa Carlton singles chronology
"Big Yellow Taxi"
(2002)
"Pretty Baby"
(2002)
"White Houses"
(2004)

"Pretty Baby" is a song by American singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton from her 2002 debut album, Be Not Nobody . [1] The song was released as the third single from the album in on December 2, 2002, but did not experience prolonged chart success in the United States or abroad.

Contents

Awards and accolades

"Pretty Baby" was nominated for "Choice Love Song" at the 2003 Teen Choice Awards but lost to "Crazy in Love" by Beyoncé and Jay-Z. [2] [3]

Track listings

European CD single [4]

  1. "Pretty Baby"
  2. "Swindler"

European maxi-CD single [5]

  1. "Pretty Baby"
  2. "Swindler"
  3. "Red Ditty"
  4. "Pretty Baby" (enhanced video)

UK CD single [6]

  1. "Pretty Baby"
  2. "Twilight" (live)
  3. "A Thousand Miles" (live in New York)
  4. "Pretty Baby" (director's cut video)

Charts

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)LabelRef(s).
United StatesDecember 2, 2002 Contemporary hit radio A&M [15]
AustraliaFebruary 10, 2003CD [16]
United KingdomFebruary 24, 2003
  • CD
  • cassette
[17] [18]

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