Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1984 #17. Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper Time After Time is a song written by singer-songwriters Cyndi Lauper and Rob Hyman, and recorded by Lauper for her debut album, Shes So Unusual (1983), with Hyman contributing backing vocals. It was the second single to be released from the album and became Laupers first #1 hit in the U.S. The song was written in the albums final stages, after Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, She Bop and All Through the Night had been written. The writing began with the title, which Lauper had seen in TV Guide magazine, referring to the 1979 science fiction film Time After Time. Most music critics gave the song positive reviews, with most commending the song for being a solid and memorable love song, as well as considering the track Laupers best song. The song has been selected as one of the Best Love Songs of All Time by many media outlets, including Rolling Stone, Nerve, MTV and many others. Time After Time was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Song of the Year at the 1985 edition. The song was a success on the charts, becoming her first number-one single on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart on June 9, 1984 and remaining there for two weeks. Worldwide, the song is her most commercially successful single after Girls Just Want to Have Fun, and reached number three on the UK Singles Chart and number six on the ARIA Singles Chart. And who can forget the music video!? The storyline is about a young woman leaving her lover behind. Laupers 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. Portions of the video were filmed at the now-closed Toms Diner in Roxbury Township, New Jersey, the intersection of Central Avenue and Main Street in Wharton, New Jersey, and at the Morristown train station. According to Lauper, It was important to me that we were natural and human in the video. I wanted to convey somebody who walked her own path and did not always get along with everyone and did not always marry the guy. The video opens with Lauper watching the 1936 film The Garden of Allah and the final scene, where she gets on the train and waves goodbye to David, has Lauper crying for real!
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