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(There's A) Fire in the Night

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B-side
  
"Rock on the Bayou"

Format
  
7"

Genre
  
Country rock

Released
  
October 22, 1984

Recorded
  
1983

Length
  
3:59 (single edit) 4:14 (album version)

"(There's A) Fire in the Night" is a song written by Bob Corbin, and recorded by American country music band Alabama. It was released in October 1984 as the fourth single from the band's album Roll On. The song became the group's 15th straight No. 1 single on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart in January 1985.

Contents

Single and album edits

A slightly early fade on the single version is the only difference between the single and album versions of "(There's a) Fire in the Night".

Music Video

A video of the song, directed by David Hogan and depicting the band camping in a forest at night, has aired on The Nashville Network, CMT and Great American Country. It is not the original video, however. The original video, released in 1984, featured partial nudity and what writer Edward Morris described as a "bizarre plot." Alabama decided the video was not family-friendly and, with the help of their management, had RCA Records withdraw the original video from circulation.

See also

  • Roland, Tom, "The Billboard Book of Number One Country Hits" (Billboard Books, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1991 (ISBN 0-8230-7553-2))
  • Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs: 1944-2005," 2006.
  • References

    (There's A) Fire in the Night Wikipedia