"All Night Long (All Night)"
Single by Lionel Richie
from the album Can't Slow Down
Released	July 1983
Recorded	Spring 1983
Length	6:25
Writer(s)	Richie
Chart positions
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"All Night Long (All Night)" was a 1983 hit single for Lionel Richie. Taken from his second solo album Can't Slow Down, it combined Richie's soulful Commodores style with Caribbean influences and contains an old Jamaican chant. According to an episode of Reading Rainbow in which Richie guest-starred, the song's theme is about a party that lasts all night long. 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr. ... Cant Slow Down is Lionel Richies second album which was released on October 11, 1983. ... The Commodores were a highly successful soul / funk band of the 1970s and 1980s. ... The music of the Caribbean is a diverse grouping of musical genres. ... The Reading Rainbow logo used between 1999 and 2005. ...

Popular in Iraq, Middle East

All Night Long as well as it's composer, Lionel Richie, are both popular among middle easterners, including Iraqis. Richie has performed for audiences in Morocco, Dubai, Qatar, and in April 2006 he performed his first show in Libya. Military personel reported to Richie that his song All Night Long was played into the streets of Baghdad throughout the night when the occupation began as American armed forces entered the city.^[1]

Trivia

• One of the dancers in the music video was a 17 year-old Lela Rochon.
• The only hit for the Commodores post-Richie, 1985's "Nightshift" had a very similar introduction as well as rhythm to "All Night Long".
• Richie performed the song at the closing ceremony of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.
• Its four-week stay at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 was preceded by "Islands in the Stream", a duet by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. It would be followed by "Say Say Say" by Paul McCartney and future "We Are The World" collaborator Michael Jackson.
• In 1984, this song was featured in the pilot of Miami Vice as Ricardo Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas) walks across the dance floor to the boss that killed his brother.
• In 2006, this song was used as the music for a commercial promoting the Mountain Dew MDX soft drink.

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• Writer: Lionel Richie
• Producers: Lionel Richie, James Anthony Carmichael

Islands in the Stream was a 1989 hit country music single for Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, written by the Bee Gees. ... Kenneth Donald Kenny Rogers (born August 21, 1938, in Houston, Texas) is a prolific American country music singer, photographer, producer, songwriter, actor and businessman. ... Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American Grammy-winning and Academy Award-nominated country singer, songwriter, composer, author, actress and philanthropist. ... The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. ... This is a list of number-one hits in the United States by year from the Billboard Hot 100. ... November 12 is the 316th day of the year (317th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 49 days remaining. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... December 3 is the 337th (in leap years the 338th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Say Say Say was a 1983 hit single for Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson, produced by George Martin. ... Sir James Paul McCartney MBE (born June 18, 1942) is a Grammy Award-winning English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who first gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of the Beatles. ... For other persons named Michael Jackson, see Michael Jackson (disambiguation). ...

References

• The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits

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