Heading West
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| Single by Cyndi Lauper | ||
| from the album A Night To Remember | ||
| Released | 1989 | |
| Recorded | 1989 | |
| Genre | Pop | |
| Label | Epic Records | |
| Writer(s) | Cyndi Lauper, Billy Steinberg, Tom Kelly | |
| Producer(s) | Cyndi Lauper, Lennie Petze | |
| Cyndi Lauper singles chronology | ||
| My First Night Without You (1989) |
Heading West (1989) |
A Night To Remember (1989) |
Heading West was the third single off of Cyndi Lauper's album A Night To Remember.
Heading West was written by Lauper, Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly. The same team wrote My First Night Without You, and the latter two wrote True Colors, I Drove All Night and . The song is about moving on from a past relationship, which was the overall theme of the album. A video was also released which was black and white and had Lauper in an empty field. The song was released outside of the U.S. The single was a minor hit in the UK.
French Canadian pop star Mitsou covered the song as the title track for a 1992 EP and also released it as a single. She added a French spoken word monologue to the end of the song.
[edit] Chart Performance
| Chart (1989) | Peak position |
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| UK Singles Chart | 68 |
