Last week, I interviewed Cyndi Lauper for the
Wall Street Journal on the writing and recording of her #1 hit,
Time After Time, which was released in 1983 on her debut album,
She's So Unusual (
go here). Miles Davis loved
Time After Time and recorded it on his
You're Under Arrest album in 1984. Cyndi told me that Miles first heard the song after his then wife Cicely Tyson put on the album and insisted he listen to it. [Photo above of
Cyndi Lauper by
Elizabeth Lippman for The Wall Street Journal]
Cyndi co-wrote the song with Rob Hyman (above) of the Hooters. It was the last song written for the album and the composing was done in a bit of a rush, since the album was finished but producer Rick Chertoff wanted one more. So Rob and Cyndi went into a studio at New York's Record Plant, and as Rob played chords, Cyndi told me she danced around to catch a vibe and came up with the lyrics. The song's title came from a 1979 movie she spotted in TV Guide. As she told me, in that inimitable Betty Boop voice of hers, "I never meant for it to be the song’s real title. It was just supposed to get me thinking."
JazzWax note: I last interviewed Cyndi in 2014 on what it was like growing up in Ozone Park, Queens (
go here).
JazzWax clips: Here's the official video of
Time After Time from 1984...
Here's one of Cyndi's favorite versions of Miles Davis playing the song in concert...
And
here's the Miles Davis studio version...
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