Another Sleepless Night (Anne Murray song)

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"Another Sleepless Night"
Another Sleepless Night - Anne Murray.jpg
Single by Anne Murray
from the album Where Do You Go When You Dream
B-side "It Should Have Been Easy"
ReleasedJanuary 1982
Genre Country
Length3:07
Label Capitol
Songwriter(s) Charlie Black
Rory Bourke
Producer(s) Jim Ed Norman
Anne Murray singles chronology
"It's All I Can Do"
(1981)
"Another Sleepless Night"
(1982)
"Hey! Baby"
(1982)

"Another Sleepless Night" is a song written by Charlie Black and Rory Bourke, and recorded by Canadian country music artist Anne Murray. It was released in January 1982 as the fourth single from her album Where Do You Go When You Dream . The song reached No. 1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada [1] and #4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in the United States. [2]

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The song, light and uptempo, was a bit of a departure for Murray, whose previous few singles had all been slower-tempo ballads. The narrator notes how it had been hard to sleep during recent nights, as her lover had been away, but then speculates that, with his return, it will yet be "another sleepless night", but this time because they'll be up all night "making romance".

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1982)Peak
position
Canadian RPM Country Tracks1
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks1
New Zealand (Listener) [3] 3
US Billboard Hot 100 [4] 44
US Adult Contemporary ( Billboard ) [5] 11
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [6] 4

Year-end charts

Chart (1982)Position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard) [7] 29

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