All She Wants to Do Is Dance

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"All She Wants to Do Is Dance"
Don Henley - All She Wants to Do Is Dance.jpg
Single by Don Henley
from the album Building the Perfect Beast
B-side "Building the Perfect Beast"
ReleasedFebruary 1985
Recorded1984
Genre
Length4:28 (album)
4:23 (remix edit)
Label Geffen
Songwriter Danny Kortchmar
Producers
Don Henley singles chronology
"The Boys of Summer"
(1984)
"All She Wants to Do Is Dance"
(1985)
"Not Enough Love in the World"
(1985)
Audio sample
Chart (1985)Peak
position
Australian (Kent Music Report) [8] 22
Canadian RPM Top Singles [9] 13
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [10] 9
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play [11] 10
U.S. Billboard Top Rock Tracks [12] 1
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B Singles [13] 65
Year-end chart (1985)Rank
US Top Pop Singles (Billboard) [14] 97

Other versions

The single "All She Wanna Do Is Dance" by David Guetta and Niles Mason uses samples of this song.

See also

References

  1. "The Meaning, and Writer, Behind Don Henley's 1984 Hit "All She Wants to do is Dance"". 7 August 2023.
  2. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 8th Edition (Billboard Publications), page 282.
  3. Mason, Stewart. "All She Wants to Do Is Dance - Don Henley". AllMusic. Retrieved April 13, 2022.
  4. "All She Wants to Do Is Dance by Don Henley". SongFacts. Retrieved April 13, 2022.
  5. John Leland (July 1985). Don Henley "All She Wants To Do Is Dance" (Geffen). Spin. p. 34. Retrieved 2010-08-22.
  6. https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Don+Henley
  7. https://web.archive.org/web/20080515023728/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/donhenley/albums/album/98653/review/6068200/building_the_perfect_beast
  8. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 137. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
  9. "Results – RPM – Library and Archives Canada – Top Singles". RPM . Archived from the original on October 22, 2012. Retrieved April 1, 2011.
  10. "Don Henley Album & Song Chart History – Hot 100". Billboard . Retrieved April 1, 2011.
  11. "Don Henley Album & Song Chart History – Dance/Club Play Songs". Billboard . Retrieved April 1, 2011.
  12. "allmusic ((( Don Henley > Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles )))". AllMusic . Retrieved April 1, 2011.
  13. "Don Henley". Billboard .
  14. "1985 The Year in Music & Video: Top Pop Singles". Billboard. Vol. 97, no. 52. December 28, 1985. p. T-21.