"Slippin' into Darkness" | ||||
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Single by War | ||||
from the album All Day Music | ||||
B-side | Nappy Head (Theme From "Ghetto Man") | |||
Released | November 1971 | |||
Genre | Funk | |||
Length | 3:59 (single version) 6:59 (album version) | |||
Label | United Artists | |||
Songwriter(s) | War | |||
Producer(s) | Jerry Goldstein | |||
War singles chronology | ||||
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"Slippin' into Darkness" is a song written and performed in 1971 by War. The song was produced by Jerry Goldstein. [1] A live version of the song was featured as the B-side to their 1974 single "Ballero".
This song is an unusual blues form with the first lines being repeated in an African and Latin rhythm. The song is from the perspective of someone whose friend's life was taken away, who withdraws from reality, having to pay the consequences. Because of the song's length in the album version, at 6:59, the single radio edit version of 3:59 omits the slower introduction plus the second verse of the song.
It reached #12 on the U.S. R&B chart and #16 on the U.S. pop chart in 1972, [2] logging 22 weeks on that chart, [3] tied for most total weeks inside that year with Gallery's "Nice to Be with You". [4] It was featured on their 1971 album All Day Music . [5] The song ranked #23 on Billboard magazine's Top 100 singles of 1972. [6] In Canada, it reached #13. [7]
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United States (RIAA) [17] | Platinum | 2,000,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
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