 Peters ' debut album in 1980 ( an LP ) , entitled Bernadette Peters contained 10 songs , including " If You Were The Only Boy " , " Gee Whiz " , " <unk> " , " Should 've Never Let Him Go " , " Chico 's Girl " , " Pearl 's a Singer " , " Other Lady " , " Only Wounded " , " I Never Thought I 'd Break " and " You 'll Never Know " . The original cover painting by Alberto Vargas , pictured at left , was one of his last works , created at the age of 84 . According to The New York Daily News , Peters " persuaded him to do one last ' Vargas Girls ' portrait ... She just went to his California retreat , asked him to do one more , he looked at her and said , ' You ARE a Vargas girl ! ' " She kept the original painting . The original title planned for the album was Decades . Rolling Stone wrote of her debut album : 
