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"Everybody Have Fun Tonight" | ||||
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Single by Wang Chung | ||||
from the album Mosaic | ||||
B-side | "Fun Tonight: The Early Years" | |||
Released | September 1986 [1] | |||
Recorded | 1986 | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 4:47 (album version) 4:15 (7"/video version) | |||
Label | Geffen | |||
Songwriter(s) | ||||
Producer(s) | Peter Wolf | |||
Wang Chung singles chronology | ||||
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Music video | ||||
"Everybody Have Fun Tonight" on YouTube |
"Everybody Have Fun Tonight" is a song by the English new wave band Wang Chung, released as a single from their fourth studio album Mosaic in 1986. Collaboratively written by Jack Hues, Nick Feldman, and Peter Wolf, it reached no. 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1986 Christmas season, behind "Walk Like an Egyptian" by the Bangles. It also hit No. 1 on the Canada RPM Top 100 Singles chart the week of 17 January 1987. With some different lyrics, the original ballad version of the song was placed on the B-side.
After their break-up in 1991, Wang Chung reunited in 2005 to perform this song on the television show Hit Me, Baby, One More Time .
The song is featured on numerous 1980s compilation albums and still receives some radio airplay across the United States. It has appeared in the "#2s" episode of VH1 Classic's One Hit Wonders series, even though the band is also known for "Let's Go!" and "Dance Hall Days".
Billboard called it a "self-celebrating dance rocker" that "[coins] a new verb." [2]
7" Geffen / 7-28562 (USA)
7" Geffen / GEF 13F (UK)
7" Geffen / P-2193 (JPN)
12" Geffen / 0-20551 (USA) and TA 2589 (UK)
*times as indicated on record label (not actual)
12" (Promo) Geffen / PRO-A-2581 (USA)
The music video, directed by Godley & Creme, features scenes of the band playing in a wood-lined room with very rapid editing between different takes of the same performance. The editing gives the video a somewhat disorienting flip book-like animation style, employing the use of visual jitter. Wang Chung, additional musicians and dancers are seen in several formations throughout the video. They are shown in close portrait and seated along a row of chairs, the seating arrangement of which was changed with each take. Each shot flips through up to four takes of the same shot, with some shots approaching up to 1/25th of a second between edits. The video was banned by the BBC from airing after its premiere due to a medical expert retained by the BBC’s screening committee claiming it could possibly trigger “epileptic fits”. [4]
In 2020, Wang Chung released the rewritten version of the song known as "Everybody Stay Safe Tonight" featuring Valerie Day. [5] The rewritten lyrics reflects the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement. [6] It was released on 8 June 2020. [7]
Chart (1986–1987) | Peak position |
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Australia (Kent Music Report) [8] | 8 |
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) [9] | 19 |
Canada The Record [10] | 1 |
Canada Top Singles ( RPM ) | 1 |
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [11] | 28 |
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) [12] | 23 |
UK Singles (OCC) [13] | 76 |
US Billboard Hot 100 [14] | 2 |
US Radio & Records CHR/Pop Airplay Chart [15] | 1 |
US Dance Club Songs ( Billboard ) [16] | 4 |
US Album Rock Tracks (Billboard) | 25 |
Chart (1987) | Position |
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Australia (Kent Music Report) [17] | 57 |
US Top Pop Singles (Billboard) [18] | 12 |
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