"Along Comes a Woman" | ||||
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Single by Chicago | ||||
from the album Chicago 17 | ||||
B-side | "We Can Stop the Hurtin'" [2] | |||
Released | February 11, 1985 [1] | |||
Genre | Pop rock | |||
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Label | Full Moon/ Warner Bros. [4] | |||
Songwriter(s) | ||||
Producer(s) | David Foster [4] | |||
Chicago singles chronology | ||||
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"Along Comes a Woman" is a song written by Peter Cetera and Mark Goldenberg [5] for the group Chicago and recorded for their album Chicago 17 (1984), with Cetera singing lead vocals. The fourth single released from that album, [6] it is the last Chicago single released with original singer/bassist Cetera, who left the band in the summer of 1985. [7] [8]
Upon its release in 1985, Billboard magazine highlighted the single in its "Singles: Pop: Picks" section, as a "new release with the greatest chart potential," and called it a "hard rocker." [4] At the end of the year, Billboard magazine music critic, Linda Moleski, listed the single among her top ten highlights of the year as, “An excellent funk-pop sound that’s reflective of 1985.” [9]
The original album version was 4:14 in length. [3] It was remixed to a more high-tech mid-80's sound for the single release which runs 3:47 in length. [4]
The music video, shot in black and white, combined themes from the films Raiders of the Lost Ark and Casablanca [10] [11] and featured Peter Cetera, the lead vocalist on the song, in the Indiana Jones/ Rick Blaine-type role. [7] It was produced by Jon Small of Picture Vision, Inc., and was directed by Jay Dubin, [10] who also directed the syndicated TV series The Wombles in the 1980s. [12] [13] The video was released in 1985, during what some call the "golden era" of MTV. [14]
Additional personnel
"Along Comes a Woman" reached a peak of No. 14 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart [15] and No. 2 on the Adult Contemporary chart. [16]
"Along Comes a Woman" | ||||
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Single by Chicago | ||||
from the album Chicago 17 | ||||
B-side | "We Can Stop the Hurtin'" [2] | |||
Released | February 11, 1985 [1] | |||
Genre | Pop rock | |||
Length | ||||
Label | Full Moon/ Warner Bros. [4] | |||
Songwriter(s) | ||||
Producer(s) | David Foster [4] | |||
Chicago singles chronology | ||||
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"Along Comes a Woman" is a song written by Peter Cetera and Mark Goldenberg [5] for the group Chicago and recorded for their album Chicago 17 (1984), with Cetera singing lead vocals. The fourth single released from that album, [6] it is the last Chicago single released with original singer/bassist Cetera, who left the band in the summer of 1985. [7] [8]
Upon its release in 1985, Billboard magazine highlighted the single in its "Singles: Pop: Picks" section, as a "new release with the greatest chart potential," and called it a "hard rocker." [4] At the end of the year, Billboard magazine music critic, Linda Moleski, listed the single among her top ten highlights of the year as, “An excellent funk-pop sound that’s reflective of 1985.” [9]
The original album version was 4:14 in length. [3] It was remixed to a more high-tech mid-80's sound for the single release which runs 3:47 in length. [4]
The music video, shot in black and white, combined themes from the films Raiders of the Lost Ark and Casablanca [10] [11] and featured Peter Cetera, the lead vocalist on the song, in the Indiana Jones/ Rick Blaine-type role. [7] It was produced by Jon Small of Picture Vision, Inc., and was directed by Jay Dubin, [10] who also directed the syndicated TV series The Wombles in the 1980s. [12] [13] The video was released in 1985, during what some call the "golden era" of MTV. [14]
Additional personnel
"Along Comes a Woman" reached a peak of No. 14 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart [15] and No. 2 on the Adult Contemporary chart. [16]