Time after Time (Cyndi Lauper song)
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| Single by Cyndi Lauper | ||
| from the album She's So Unusual | ||
| Released | 1983 | |
| Format | 12" vinyl, 7" vinyl | |
| Genre | Pop | |
| Length | 4:01 | |
| Label | Epic | |
| Writer(s) | Cindi Lauper, Rob Hyman | |
| Producer(s) | Rick Chertoff | |
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| "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" (1983) |
"Time After Time" (1984) |
"She Bop" (1984) |
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| "Stay" (2004) |
"Time After Time with Sarah McLachlan (2005 Acoustic Version)" | "Above The Clouds" (2005) |
"Time After Time" was the second commercially released solo single by singer Cyndi Lauper.
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[edit] Song Information
The song is to date her second highest charting and most commercially successful single worldwide after "Girls Just Want to Have Fun". Though "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" is considered Lauper's signature song, she did not write it. However, she, along with Rob Hyman of The Hooters wrote "Time After Time", which is widely considered a classic ballad of the 1980s, and is still played frequently on adult contemporary radio.
The song has been covered, either in live performance or on a recording, by at least 97 different artists including Miles Davis, Dilana, Everything But the Girl, Eddie Money, The Hooters, Matchbox Twenty, INOJ, Lil' Mo, The Kreep, Blaque, Eva Cassidy, Willie Nelson, Uncle Kracker, Distant Soundz, Gandharvas, Joey McIntyre, Nichole Nordeman, Patti LuPone, Sugar Ray, Spoken, Gameface, Quietdrive, TRUSTcompany, Natalie, and Cassandra Wilson.
It was played in the 'dance scene' of Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (David Mirkin, 1997) and Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess, 2004), and as a main theme in View from the Top (Bruno Barreto, 2003). Mark Williams and Tara Morice performed the song in the Strictly Ballroom soundtrack (in the scene where Scott and Fran dance on the rooftop). Eva Cassidy's version was featured in the WB TV Series, Smallville, and it was added to the first Smallville soundtrack, The Talon Mix. It was also covered in 2006 by Quietdrive. It also contributed to a running gag in the second season of the TV Series My Name Is Earl.
The video for "Time After Time" was about a runaway leaving her lover behind. Cyndi even signs the title of the song to the deaf as she is leaving the train station. The video was played in heavy rotation on MTV. Cyndi's mother and brother appear in the video, as well as Cyndi's then boyfriend David Wolff. The video was directed by Edd Griles.
On the "NBC" show "My Name is Earl" Randy Hickey listens to this song to get over a broken heart. In the episode entitled South of the Border Patrs Uno & Dos, a Mexican guitarista plays a Spanish version of the song.
[edit] Charts
| Chart (1984) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 1 |
| U.S. Adult Contemporary | 1 |
| U.S. Adult Contemporary Recurrents | 25 |
| U.S. ARC Weekly Top 40 | 1 |
| Australia ARIA Singles Chart | 4 |
| Canadian Singles Chart | 1 |
| Chilean Singles Chart | 1 |
| French Singles Chart | 9 |
| German Singles Chart | 6 |
| Holland Singles Chart | 5 |
| Israeli Singles Chart | 2 |
| Italian Singles Chart | 5 |
| Japanese Singles Chart | 1 |
| New Zealand Singles Charts | 3 |
| Switzerland | 7 |
| UK Singles Chart | 3 |
[edit] Official versions
- Album version - 4:01
- 2005 Acoustic Version with Sarah McLachlan
[edit] 2005 Acoustic Version
The song was re-released in a new acoustic version on Lauper's 2005 release The Body Acoustic, which features acoustic versions of some of her songs. "Time after Time" is performed as a duet with Sarah McLachlan.
[edit] Credits
- Written by Cyndi Lauper, Rob Hyman
- Produced by Rick Chertoff
- Executive Producer: Lennie Petze
- Associate Producer: William Wittman
- Engineered by William Wittman
- Arranged by Cyndi Lauper, Rick Chertoff, Rob Hyman, Eric Bazilian
| Preceded by: "Let's Hear It for the Boy" by Deniece Williams |
Billboard Hot 100 number-one single June 9, 1984 |
Succeeded by: "The Reflex" by Duran Duran |
On My Name is Earl, Randy listens to this song whenever his heart is broken.
