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Cyndi Lauper – Time After Time (3:59)

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“Time After Time” was a single by singer Cyndi Lauper, the second from her album, She’s So Unusual. Speaking with Songfacts about this song in an interview, co-writer Rob Hyman explained Cyndi came up with the title when she saw it in the magazine TV Guide. “Time After Time” was the name of a 1979 science fiction movie starring Malcolm McDowell as a man who invents a time machine. Said Rob: “When she saw ‘Time After Time,’ something clicked - she said ‘I think I have a title.’ I was sitting at the piano and just started banging out what would eventually be the chorus, hook, and the way we sing it. It almost had like a Reggae feel, it was a little bouncier and a little more upbeat. We started getting off on that chorus, then the verse melodies started to appear. It’s a deceptively simple song.”

It reached number one 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 number 3 on the UK Singles Chart and number 6 on the RIAA 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. It has been covered by numerous artists.

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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.
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  • She's So Unusual
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  • The Essential Cyndi Lauper
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  • Twelve Deadly Cyns... And Then Some
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  • 100 Hits of the 80's - Volume 2
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  • numi1982

    i love this song

    16 days ago

  • AvianCrowd0

    Cyndi, Just getting better with age...

    last month

  • daile

    so perfect ♥

    last month

  • Innamorandi

    I picture Randy Hickey with the stereo every time I hear this song [3] Such a great song!

    last month

  • WaySilentBob69

    Yeah, I keep getting the non-original version, it's a bit random. Want to hear her version of "True Colors" too (excellent Phil Collins version of that too, believe it or not!)

    last month

  • A_Violet_Soul

    gah no i want the cyndi version only :<

    last month

  • magma81

    this is it!

    March 2012

  • dried-fruit

    Yes, that's Sarah McLachlan on backup. Pretty sure this version was recorded in 2005 for The Body Acoustic.

    March 2012

  • Miss_Calvero

    ♥ ♥ ♥

    March 2012

  • crazykarma138

    Style and class

    March 2012

  • Tom_Pullings

    She is one remarkable woman.

    March 2012

  • BMWPRETTY

    Cydi I love you! Thank you! ;-)

    March 2012

  • halo_dm2

    If Miles Davis covered it, there must be a reason.

    March 2012

  • pogopatterson

    This version is sweet but it ain't Cyndi on her own.

    March 2012

  • Nit89ram

    I picture Randy Hickey with the stereo every time I hear this song [2]

    March 2012

  • i20254ever

    I heard this song when I was younger, and I recall looking at the moon wondering if I would find my soulmate.... then I did, but I was not his... So now I walk to the best time in my life FREE.

    March 2012

  • BMWPRETTY

    I love this tune and talent! Whoooo! Time after Time! Cyndi is aways in my world! She is sooo cute! Different then anyone! I love her!

    March 2012

  • Yanovsky

    I picture Randy Hickey with the stereo every time I hear this song

    February 2012

  • TruckOSaurus

    I'm pretty sure this version is a duet with Sarah McLachlan

    February 2012

  • pogopatterson

    A happy reminder of one of the artists that made the 80's.

    February 2012
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