All Through the Night (Cyndi Lauper song)
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| "All Through the Night" | ||||
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| Single by Cyndi Lauper | ||||
| from the album She's So Unusual | ||||
| B-side | "Witness" | |||
| Released | September 3, 1984 | |||
| Format | 7" | |||
| Recorded | June 1983 at The Record Plant (New York City) | |||
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| Length | 4:33 | |||
| Label | Epic | |||
| Writer(s) | Jules Shear | |||
| Producer(s) | Rick Chertoff | |||
| Cyndi Lauper singles chronology | ||||
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"All Through the Night" is a song by American singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper, released from her debut album She's So Unusual. It was written by Jules Shear for his album Watch Dog, as a mid-tempo folk-rock song. After The Cars recorded their own version, which they did not use on any of their albums, Lauper decided to cover it. Although she initially intended to do a straight cover of Shear's version, she turned it into a pop ballad instead.
The song was the only single released worldwide by Lauper that did not have a music video. It peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Lauper's fourth top five single in the U.S. Lauper became the first woman in the 26-year history of Billboard to take four singles from the same album to Top 5 on the Hot 100. The song was mostly positively received by critics. An acoustic version was sung by Lauper on her 2005 album, The Body Acoustic. In this version, Shaggy provided backing vocals.
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[show]Background[edit]
Writing and development[edit]
The song was originally written by Jules Shear, and included on his 1983 debut solo album, Watch Dog.[1] Shear later recalled in an interview, "[it's] like a big bonus really. Cyndi Lauper does a song ('All Through the Night') that's on a solo record of mine. I just thought, 'No one's really going to hear this.' Then she does it, and it becomes a Top 5 song."[2] "I'm just glad people know the songs, really. I think they're really good. The only problem is with people who don't know I wrote them. I do them and they think, 'God, he's doing that Cyndi Lauper song.'"[3]
Before Lauper covered the song, the band The Cars produced an early version of it that was not released.[4] (Elliot Easton of the Cars had played guitar on Shear's original recording, which is most likely where the Cars heard the original tune.) Shear's version was originally a folk-rock song, but Lauper instead turned it into a pop ballad for her album, with a heavy emphasis on a synthesizer.[5][6] According to Lauper, she wanted it to be just like Shear's version, with a bit more of an acoustic sound. However, she changed her mind, saying that she wanted to sing it like herself.[7] Unlike her other singles from the album, this one did not have a music video released with it.
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Music and lyrics[edit]
Shear's original version of "All Through the Night" is set in the key of F major, and proceeds at a tempo of approximately 96 beats per minute. For her cover version, Lauper transposed the key up a minor third to A-flat major, and kept the tempo at the same 96 beats per minute as the original.[8] The song is set in common time.[8] Lauper's voice spans an octave and a fourth between G3 and D♭5. Jules Shear himself makes a guest appearance on Lauper's version, singing a wordless falsetto melody near the end, as well as the lower harmony in the choruses. The chorus was unintentionally altered by Lauper from the Shear version when she heard the upper harmony vocal and thought it was the lead vocal.[7] Lyrically, "All Through the Night" addresses the same concept of love and its tug at heart-strings as was emphasized by Lauper's previous single, "Time After Time."
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