Time After Time (song)
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| Cyndi Lauper | |
| publication | January 27, 1984 |
| length | 4:01 |
| Genre (s) | Soft rock |
| Author (s) | Cyndi Lauper, Rob Hyman |
| Producer (s) | Rick Chertoff |
| Label | portrait |
| album | She's So Unusual |
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Time After Time is a song by Cyndi Lauper that was first released on her late 1983 album She's So Unusual . The title was released as a single in March 1984.
history
In 2006, Lauper told Sound Off with Matt Pinfield on HDNet how the song came about. Lauper and Rob Hyman from the band The Hooters composed the song together in the recording studio. When recording the piece in the studio, Hyman took over the second voice in the chorus. On the B-side of the single from the album is the track I'll Kiss You . The ballad, produced by Rick Chertoff, was nominated for the 1985 Grammy Awards .
In the USA , Time After Time reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two weeks - from June 9 to 16, 1984 . The song also topped the charts in Canada , and in Germany the song was at number six for four weeks.
Music video
The music video is about a woman who leaves her lover. At the beginning of the video you can see Lauper watching the movie The Garden of Allah , then the music starts, after which you see Lauper leaving a station building. In the video clip, Cyndi Lauper's birth mother, her brother, her partner David Wolf and Lou Albano , who also played in the video for Girls Just Want to Have Fun, appeared . The video was directed by Edd Griles. Portions of the video were filmed in Tom's Restaurant , a place at the intersection of Central Avenue and Main Street in Wharton, New Jersey, and the Morristown train station .
Cover versions
There are many cover versions of the song.
- Miles Davis recorded the song in 1985 for the album You're Under Arrest .
- Willie Nelson covered the song on the 2002 album The Great Divide .
- Rebekka Bakken sings the song in her 2018 album "Things you leave behind"
- Glammer Twins released a cover in 2019.
Awards for sales
| Country / Region | Award | Sales |
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 Canada (MC)
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 platinum
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10,000 |
 United States (RIAA)
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 gold
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500,000 |
 United Kingdom (BPI)
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 silver
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250,000 |
| All in all |
1 × silver 1 × gold 1 × platinum |
760,000 |
literature
- Fred Bronson: The Billboard Book of Number One Hits . Updated and Expanded 5th Edition. Billboard Books, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-8230-7677-2 , pp. 589 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sources for chart placements: DE / AT / CH , accessed on March 29, 2010.
- ↑ Time After Time (song) in the Official UK Charts (English)
- ↑ release date "She's So Unusual"
- ↑ release date "Time After Time" , Rate your Music.com
- ↑ Glammer Twins - Time After Time. Retrieved June 25, 2020 .