For the 1928 American film, see Shadows of the Night (film).
"Shadows of the Night"
Standard picture sleeve
Single by Pat Benatar
from the album Get Nervous
B-side
"The Victim"
Released
September 18, 1982
Recorded
June 18, 1982
Genre
Hard rock
Length
4:20 (album version) 3:43 (single edit)
Label
Chrysalis
Songwriter(s)
David Leigh Byron, Rachel Sweet
Producer(s)
Peter Coleman, Neil Giraldo
Pat Benatar singles chronology
"It's A Tuff Life" (1981)
"Shadows of the Night" (1982)
"Anxiety (Get Nervous)" (1982)
Music video
"Shadows of the Night" on YouTube
"Shadows of the Night" is a song composed by D.L. Byron explicitly for the 1980 film Times Square,[1] which tells the story of two young runaways in New York City. The song did not make it into the movie and Byron's own record label rejected it, claiming the song "wasn't commercial enough."[2]
It was released as a single by Helen Schneider in 1981 as well as on her album Schneider with the Kick. According to Byron, Schneider's version went 5× platinum in Germany and the Benelux countries.[2] This successful song is not mentioned in her own biography. Another version with slightly different lyrics was released by Rachel Sweet on her album ...And Then He Kissed Me, also in 1981.
The most famous version was then released in September 1982 by American rock singer Pat Benatar, as the lead single from her fourth studio album Get Nervous. Benatar's recording reached number 3 on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, the Top 15 on the US Hot 100 and in Canada, and the Top 20 in Australia. "Shadows of the Night" garnered Benatar her third Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance in 1983. The lyrics of Benatar's version differ slightly from both previous versions.
^"Blog Archive » The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack "TIMES SQUARE"". Robin Johnson. Retrieved 2016-11-14.
^ ab"D.L. BYRON: Shadows Of The Night (Pat Benatar) (c) 2012". Rockunited.com. Retrieved 2016-11-14.
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