No Night So Long (song)

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"No Night So Long"
No Night So Long - Dionne Warwick.jpg
Single by Dionne Warwick
from the album No Night So Long
B-side "Reaching for the Sky"
ReleasedJuly 1980
Recorded1980
Genre Easy Listening, Pop
Length3:26
Label Arista Records
Composer(s) Richard Kerr
Lyricist(s) Will Jennings
Producer(s) Steve Buckingham
Dionne Warwick singles chronology
"After You"
(1980)
"No Night So Long"
(1980)
"Easy Love"
(1980)

"No Night So Long" is the title track of a 1980 album by Dionne Warwick, written by Richard Kerr and Will Jennings and produced by Steve Buckingham. "No Night So Long" peaked at No.23 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent three weeks at No.1 on the adult contemporary chart. [1] It was Warwick's third number one on the AC chart.

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Chart history

Chart (1980)Peak
position
Canada RPM Adult Contemporary [2] 3
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 23
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary 1
U.S. Billboard Hot Soul Singles [3] 19

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References

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  2. "Item". Bac-lac.gc.ca. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  3. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942–2004. Record Research. p. 610.