This is about the rock song "Heat of the Night", see also "In the Heat of the Night".
| "Heat of the Night" | ||||
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| Single by Bryan Adams | ||||
| from the album Into the Fire | ||||
| Released | March 1987 | |||
| Recorded | September 1986 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 5:07 | |||
| Label | A&M | |||
| Writer(s) | Bryan Adams, Jim Vallance | |||
| Producer | Bryan Adams, Bob Clearmountain | |||
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"Heat of the Night" is the title of a song written by Canadian rock musician Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance and performed by Adams. The song became the only successful song from Adams' album Into the Fire in 1987. It was released as the first single from Into the Fire and reached number 6 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and number 2 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks.
The song is also featured on Adams' 1988 live concert album Live! Live! Live! and his greatest hits albums So Far So Good and Anthology.
The song is very popular among Bryan Adams' fans and it won Canadian Music Publisher's Association Rock Song Of The Year Award. According to Billboard magazine song was one of the most-listened (84th) songs of the year.
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Song was partly inspired by the film noir classic The Third Man, starring the actor-director Orson Welles. The darkness of the lyric was further influenced by a trip Bryan and Jim Vallance took to Berlin in March 1986, before the wall came down. [1]
This song was the very first ever song released in the cassette single format in the United States. It was packaged in a red plastic case in a non-traditional cassette case box. You had to tear the white cover open to get to the cassette.
Music video directed by Wayne Isham and shot in black and white. It's one of the rare songs/videos where Bryan himself plays rhythm guitar instead of Keith Scott who he usually leaves the solo work.
A shot from recording sessions is used as the cover of Adams' Into the Fire-album.
| Chart (1987) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian Singles Chart | 25 |
| Canadian Singles Chart | 7 |
| Dutch Singles Chart | 34 |
| German Singles Chart | 33 |
| Swedish Singles Chart | 7 |
| Swiss Singles Chart | 17 |
| UK Singles Chart | 50 |
| US Billboard Hot 100[2] | 6 |
| US Billboard Rock Tracks[2] | 2 |