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Give Me All Night

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Released
  
1987

Label
  
Arista

Format
  
7"

B-side
  
"Sleight Of Hand" (US) "Two Hot Girls" (UK)

Genre
  
Pop, adult contemporary

Length
  
4:23 (album version) 4:00 (single version)

"Give Me All Night" is the 2nd single from Carly Simon's 1987 album Coming Around Again. The song was co-written by Simon with Gerard McMahon and produced by Paul Samwell-Smith. An accompanying music video was filmed on Martha's Vineyard and featured drummer Rick Marotta.

Contents

The song is one of Simon's biggest latter period AC hits, and as a result is included on multiple compilations of her work, which include 1995's 3-disc box set Clouds in My Coffee, the UK import The Very Best of Carly Simon: Nobody Does It Better, the 2-disc retrospective Anthology, 2004's single disc Reflections: Carly Simon's Greatest Hits, and 2014's Playlist: The Very Best of Carly Simon.

Charts

The song peaked at #61 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Simon's twenty-first entry on this chart, and spent twelve weeks there. The song was even more successful on Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, where it stayed for seventeen weeks and peaked at #5. The song was a minor hit in Canada, and charted at #87. It also charted in South Africa, peaking at #14.

Track listings and formats

7" single (US)
  1. "Give Me All Night" – 3:56
  2. "Sleight Of Hand" – 3:26
7" single (UK)
  1. "Give Me All Night" – 4:02
  2. "Two Hot Girls (On A Hot Summer Night)" – 4:51

References

Give Me All Night Wikipedia