Hole in My Heart (All the Way to China)

Song information

During a live concert and Q&A appearance in Las Vegas, Cyndi stated her record company thought the song was too fast for radio. Lauper seldom performed this in concert. In 2004, during the Australian leg of her "At Last" tour, she performed part of the song a cappella at the request of the audience, since the single reached the Top 10 there in 1988 and was very well known. However, it wasn't until the 2006 Body Acoustic Tour that she played the song regularly in full again, and she frequently opened the True Colors 2007 Tour with it. The song was also the opening track of her 2008 Australian Tour.

The song can also be found on the fan-acclaimed bootleg, Backsided, which was a fan-made project created to get rare Cyndi tracks into the CD player. The track finally saw the light of day on an official CD, as of 2003, with the release of the 3-CD compilation, The Great Cyndi Lauper. This song can be found on the following albums: Best Movie Album in the World...Ever! (3 CDs), True Colors: The Best of Cyndi Lauper (2 CDs), 36 All-time Favorites (3 CDs), Monster Hits 1988/Hits of 1988.

3" single

1. "Hole in My Heart (All the Way to China)" (Richard Orange)
2. "Boy Blue" (Recorded live at Le Zénith) (Jeff Bova, Lauper, Stephen Broughton Lunt)
3. "Maybe He'll Know" (Remixed by Phil Thornally) (Lauper, John Turi)

5" single

1. "Hole in My Heart (All the Way to China)" (Richard Orange)
2. "Boy Blue" (Recorded live at Le Zénith) (Jeff Bova, Lauper, Stephen Broughton Lunt)
3. "Time After Time" (Lauper, Rob Hyman)
4. "What's Going On" (club version by Shep Pettibone) (Renaldo "Obie" Benson, Al Cleveland, Marvin Gaye)

Cassette and vinyl single

1. "Hole in My Heart (All the Way to China)" (Richard Orange)
2. "Boy Blue" (Recorded live at Le Zénith) (Jeff Bova, Lauper, Stephen Broughton Lunt)