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written by Cyndi Lauper and Rob Hyman. originally performed by Cyndi Lauper. released as single in 1984 from the album She's So Unusual. "Time after Time" was a single by singer Cyndi Lauper, the second from her She's So Unusual album, and it reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts on June 9, 1984. The song was at #1 for two weeks and to date is her second highest charting and most commercially successful single worldwide after "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," also reaching #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. 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. Lauper 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. The video was directed by Edd Griles. Portions of the video were filmed at the now closed Tom's Diner in Roxbury, New Jersey. "Time after Time" has been covered, either in live performance or on a recording, by at least 120 different artists across a broad spectrum of genres, including Blaque (on Blaque, 1999), Eva Cassidy, Allison Crowe, Miles Davis (as an instrumental on You're under Arrest, 1985), Dilana, Distant Soundz, DJ Sammy, Dover, Everything But the Girl, Eddie Money and Juice Newton (as a duet), The Gandharvas, The Hooters, Crystal Kay, INOJ (reaching #6 on the Billboard Top 40 in 1998), The Boomtang Boys (on their 1999 Greatest Hits Vol. 1 album), Phil Keaggy, Novaspace, Lil' Mo, Patti LuPone, Matchbox Twenty, Joey McIntyre, Gameface, Willie Nelson, Nichole Nordeman, John Barrowman, Saosin, Spoken (on Last Chance to Breathe, 2005), Sugar Ray, Maria Taylor, Sewing with Nancie, TRUSTcompany, Tuck and Patti, Uncle Kracker (on the Clockstoppers soundtrack, 2002), Frank White, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Cassandra Wilson (on Traveling Miles, 1999), Show of Hands (on the Cold Cuts live album, 2002),and, more recently, rock versions by Quietdrive (which was released as the second single from their 2006 debut album, When All That's Left is You.) and the Australian band, The Hot Lies, and is included on their Emergency! Emergency! single (released in 2007). [source: wikipedia.com]
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