SONG OF THE DAY

“Time After Time” by Cyndi Lauper (She’s So Unusual, Epic Records, 1984). Written by Cyndi Lauper and Rob Hyman.

INTERESTING FACTS (a la wikipedia)

– It reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart on June 9, 1984, and remained there for two weeks. Worldwide, the song is her most commercially successful single after “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”, and reached #3 on the UK Singles Chart and #6 on the ARIA Singles Chart.

– “Time After Time” was nominated for Song of the Year at the 1985 Grammy Awards. The ballad is considered a classic of the 1980s and is still played frequently on adult contemporary radio.

– The song is known for its numerous covers by a wide range of artists, including an instrumental version by Miles Davis.

– Lauper co-wrote “Time After Time” with Philadelphia rocker Rob Hyman of The Hooters, who also supplied backup vocals to the song. In a 2006 interview with Sound Off with Matt Pinfield (episode 212) on HDNet, Lauper related how the song was written. She indicated much of the lyrics were written about occurrences in the studio and her life at the time. The line “the second hand unwinds” referred to producer Rick Chertoff’s watch which was winding backwards. Hyman explained in an interview with Songfacts that he and Lauper stayed in the studio after the sessions composing the song.

– The video for “Time After Time” was about a runaway leaving her lover behind. The video opens with Lauper watching the 1936 film The Garden of Allah. Lauper sings (signs) the title of the song to the deaf as she is leaving the train station. The video was played in heavy rotation on MTV. Lauper’s mother, brother, and then-boyfriend David Wolff appear in the video, and Lou Albano, who played her father in the “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” video, can be seen as a cook. The video was directed by Ed Griles. Portions of the video were filmed at the now closed Tom’s Diner in Roxbury, the intersection of Central Ave & Main St in Wharton, New Jersey, and at the Morristown train station.

VIDEO OF THE DAY