Who's Crying Now

"Who's Crying Now" is a song recorded by the American rock band Journey. It was written by Jonathan Cain and Steve Perry. It was released in 1981 as the first single from Escape and reached #4 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Mainstream Rock Tracks charts. The song charted at #46 in the UK Singles Chart, and was the band's highest charting single in the United Kingdom until "Don't Stop Believin'" (also released as a single from the Escape album in 1981) incurred a resurgence in worldwide popularity in 2009.

The song is highlighted by Steve Perry's lyrics, piano playing by Jonathan Cain which interludes with a bass riff by Ross Valory, and guitars. At the end of the song, Neal Schon plays a repeating guitar solo that sounds similar to Santana. Originally, according to Schon on In the Studio with Redbeard (which devoted an entire episode to the making of Escape), he recorded an aggressive, experimental guitar solo which he liked but Steve Perry and Jonathan Cain did not. He then recorded a second, the "simplest thing he could play off the top of his head" as said by Perry. That one was appreciated much more by bandmates. Additionally, drum playing by Steve Smith is only found in the choruses and towards the end of the song.

Randy Crawford did a cover version on her 1992 album Through The Eyes Of Love.^[1]

In 2008, the song was featured in the CBS's series Cold Case in the episode "The Dealer".

The song was featured in the 2009 movie Monsters vs Aliens.

References

1. ^ Through The Eyes Of Love