Who's Crying Now

"Who's Crying Now"
Single by Journey
from the album Escape
B-side	"Mother, Father"
Released	1981
Format	7"
Recorded	1981
Genre	Rock
Length	5:01
Label	Columbia
Writer(s)	Jonathan Cain, Steve Perry
Producer(s)	Kevin Elson, Mike Stone
Journey singles chronology
"The Party's Over (Hopelessly in Love)" (1981) "Who's Crying Now'" (1981) "Don't Stop Believin'" (1981)

"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 (with a vocal riff highly reminiscent of Sam Cooke) and piano playing by Jonathan Cain which segues into a bass riff by Ross Valory, and other guitars. At the end of the song, Neal Schon plays a repeating guitar solo that sounds similar to Santana. According to Schon on In the Studio with Redbeard (which devoted an entire episode to the making of Escape), originally he recorded an aggressive, experimental guitar solo which he liked but Perry and Cain did not. He then recorded a second solo, the "simplest thing he could play off the top of his head" as recalled by Perry. That one was appreciated much more by the rest of the band. Steve Smith's drum playing is only found in the choruses and towards the end of the song.

Cover version(s)

Internationally known singer, Randy Crawford, did a soulful version on her 1992 album Through The Eyes Of Love.^[1] Her cover of this song also features jazz pianist Joe Sample of The Crusaders.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Other appearances

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
2. ↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. 
3. ↑ http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.0413&type=1&interval=20&PHPSESSID=hvofnu3mioio82lnef0gji0li7
4. ↑ http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.0400&type=1&interval=20&PHPSESSID=hvofnu3mioio82lnef0gji0li7
5. ↑ http://umdmusic.com/default.asp?Lang=Czech&Chart=F&ChDay=&ChMonth=&ChYear=&ChBand=Journey&ChSong=
6. ↑ http://musicvf.com/songs.php?page=artist&artist=Journey&tab=songchartstab&sort=pointsup&filter=all
7. ↑ http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/80s_files/19811017.html
8. ↑ http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.4689&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=n53p45gda414ttqb7qulh3mq35
9. ↑ http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/80s_files/1981YESP.html

External links

• Full lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics