My First Night Without You
| "My First Night Without You" | ||||
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| Single by Cyndi Lauper | ||||
| from the album A Night To Remember | ||||
| B-side | "Unabbreviated Love" | |||
| Released | 3 July 1989 | |||
| Recorded | 1989 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Label | Epic Records | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Cyndi Lauper, Billy Steinberg, Tom Kelly | |||
| Producer(s) | Cyndi Lauper, Lennie Petze | |||
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| Music video | ||||
| "My First Night Without You" on YouTube | ||||
"My First Night Without You" is the second single released from Cyndi Lauper's third album A Night To Remember (1989).
Song information
The ballad is about coming home for the first time without a partner being there after a break up. The video clip is also about this, with Lauper coming home after a long day at work to an empty room after a separation. The song was written by Lauper, Tom Kelly and Billy Steinberg. The latter two also wrote "True Colors" and "I Drove All Night".
Its B-side was "Unabbreviated Love". The song is a fan favorite; Lauper even performed it many times on her A Night to Remember tour in 1989.
To promote the single, promotional posters were sent to different malls and music stores that sold the single when it was originally released.
The single failed to make a big impact on most charts in the world. It did do moderately well in Chile. In the Radio Cidade from São Paulo, Brazil, this song was #1. In Colombia, the single was #1 for 10 weeks. Since the track didn't do well on U.S. radio, most fans think more radio-friendly songs from the album, like "Unconditional Love", would have done better as the commercially released second single.[citation needed]
Music video
The video for "My First Night Without You", released in 1989, was one of the first to be closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.[1]
Chart performance
| Chart (1989) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian ARIA Singles Chart[2] | 47 |
| Belgium (Ultratop Wallonia)[3] | 47 |
| Chilean Singles Chart[4] | 12 |
| French Singles Chart[5] | 46 |
| Japan Airplay (Tokio Hot 100)[6] | 12 |
| UK Singles Chart[7] | 53 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100[8] | 62 |
| Cash Box Top 100 Singles | 55 |
Track listing
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References
- ^ This Day in Rock. "1989 – Cyndi Lauper's video for "My First Night Without…". Retrieved 2010-05-19.
- ^ http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Cyndi+Lauper&titel=My+First+Night+Without+You&cat=s
- ^ http://www.ultratop.be/nl/song/4667/Cyndi-Lauper-My-First-Night-Without-You
- ^ "Cyndi Lauper - My First Night Without You". web.archive.org. 2004-02-22. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
- ^ http://lescharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Cyndi+Lauper&titel=My+First+Night+Without+You&cat=s
- ^ "J-Wave: Tokio Hot 100 Chart". Tokio Hot 100. J-Wave. 24 September 1989. Retrieved 1 May 2020. (To access the chart date, visit the Tokio Hot 100 Chart and select year 1989, month 9 and week 4)
- ^ http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/21311/CYNDI%20LAUPER/
- ^ http://www.billboard.com/artist/299876/cyndi+lauper/chart?f=379