All Night with Me

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"All Night with Me"
All Night with Me by Laura Branigan US vinyl.png
Side A of US single
Single by Laura Branigan
from the album Branigan
B-side "I Wish We Could Be Alone"
ReleasedMarch 1982 [1]
Length3:52
Label Atlantic
Songwriter(s) Chris Montan
Producer(s) Jack White
Laura Branigan singles chronology
"Tell Him"
(1981)
"All Night with Me"
(1982)
"Gloria"
(1982)

"All Night with Me" is a song by the American pop singer Laura Branigan, released in 1982 as the lead single from her debut studio album Branigan . It was written by Chris Montan and produced by Jack White. [2] [1] "All Night with Me" was released in the United States and Germany, and reached No. 69 on the US Billboard Hot 100. [3]

Contents

Branigan's debut single, "All Night with Me" preceded her US No. 2 hit "Gloria". [4] In Germany, Branigan promoting the single by performing it on the TV music show Disco . [5]

Critical reception

Upon release, Cash Box described the song as a "seductive plea" and later in 1983 referred to it as an "overlooked single". [6] [7] In a review of the album, Stereo Review commented "only "All Night with Me" rises above the level of mediocrity". [8] In a retrospective review, Bryan Buss of AllMusic was critical of the song, describing it as an "over-synthesized and borderline-boring ballad", which along with the album track "Lovin' You Baby", "are so mediocre, the album would be stronger if they had simply been omitted". [2]

Track listing

7" single
  1. "All Night with Me" - 3:52
  2. "I Wish We Could Be Alone" - 3:18
7" single (US promo)
  1. "All Night with Me" - 3:50
  2. "All Night with Me" - 3:50

Chart performance

Chart (1982)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [3] 69

Personnel

Other versions

Songwriter Chris Montan - who had played keyboards and guitar in Karla Bonoff's touring band 1977-79 - introduced "All Night With Me" on his 1980 album Any Minute Now. [9] Also in 1980 Maxine Nightingale recorded the song for her album Bittersweet from which it was issued as a single. [10]

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